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Effectively Wild Episode 2540: The Fly Test
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Cal Raleigh and Josh Naylor and whether end-of-season surgeries for disappointing players are encouraging or frustrating, then share their takeaways from the first six Division Series games, including thoughts on Drew Rasmussen, an Austin Wells mistake, Rays crowds, Aaron Judge’s role in Rich Platelet, Poor Platelet, Grant Taylor (and whether postseason teams are pushing high-leverage relievers too far), the Blake Snell spectator experience, the upside and drawback of Chris Sale, two tantalizing fly balls (and a Ty France roof-related “what if”), how to tackle Jacob Misiorowski and Mason Miller, the Padres’ star scrubs, Jackson Chourio, and much more.
Audio intro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to MLBTR on M’s injuries
Link to FG on Rasmussen
Link to RHP SP velo
Link to Rasmussen leaderboard
Link to Wells article
Link to Wells clip
Link to Wells quote
Link to Wells math 1
Link to Wells math 2
Link to Wells math 3
Link to stop sign
Link to Apes movie clip
Link to Ben C. on 3B outs
Link to Judge taunt
Link to Schlittler comment
Link to Rays attendance article
Link to PH penalty info
Link to Somehow, Tellez returned
Link to Judge therapy info
Link to PPP study
Link to BP on Taylor
Link to Taylor as SP note
Link to Langs Taylor note
Link to Ben on not enough pitchers
Link to Pham comment 1
Link to Pham comment 2
Link to post on Pham
Link to Pham fly article
Link to Pham and Manfred
Link to Ben on October 2019 balls
Link to Sam on October 2019 balls
Link to Miz fouls fact
Link to Cleveland tourism videos
Link to Ben L. on Sale in 2018
Link to Ben C. on Sale
Link to Pages ABS ban
Link to FG Atlanta-LA preview
Link to Miller tipping story
Link to Erickson comment
Link to France fly clip
Link to Tango on France’s fly
Link to Pelletier on France’s fly
Link to Leighton on France’s fly
Link to Sheehan on France’s fly
Link to Eno on France’s fly
Link to France fly data
Link to FG Brewers-Padres G1 recap
Link to FG Brewers-Padres G2 recap
Link to Chourio hit clip
Link to MLBTR on France
Link to AC joint info
Link to AC joint debridement info
Link to TFCC tear info
Link to wOBA-xwOBA leaderboard
Link to Harris transactions
Link to Salas history
Link to Merrill catch
Link to Díaz mechanical change
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"Effectively Wild Episode 2540: The Fly Test" is an episode of Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast. Runtime 1 hr 58 min. Published October 6, 2026. Hit play above to stream it here, or open the free Spot Sports app for background play and offline downloads.
