Effectively Wild Episode 2530: The Top 24 Players 24 or Younger

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With Meg Rowley on vacation, Ben Lindbergh continues his quest to (temporarily) resurrect a few dearly departed baseball podcasts. Next Up: The Ringer MLB Show, featuring Ben, Michael Baumann of FanGraphs, and Bobby Wagner of Patreon and Tipping Pitches. Ben, Baumann, and Bobby banter about their old show and the absence of one member of the Ringer MLB crew, how MLB commemorated 9/11, who’s to blame for banged-up Shohei Ohtani, whether they’re buying Anthony Volpe’s power spike, and what the widespread mockery of Vivek Ramaswamy’s baseball swing says about politicans’ eagerness to invoke baseball, the danger of appearing inauthentic by faking ball knowledge, and the difficulty (relative to other sports) of not looking doofy doing baseball activities without past playing experience. Then (54:49) Ben plays “Did This Famous Figure Play College Baseball?” and they draft (1:02:38) the top 24 MLB players who are in their age-24 seasons or younger.

Audio intro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to The Ringer MLB Show feed
Link to Ringer Baseball feed
Link to Baumann’s FanGraphs archive
Link to Tipping Pitches
Link to 2021 young players ranking
Link to 2021 young players podcast
Link to 2022 young players ranking
Link to MLB’s 9/11 press release
Link to Baumann on Ohtani
Link to Woo on Ohtani
Link to Ardaya on Ohtani
Link to Ohtani comments
Link to Volpe reinvention article
Link to Triple-A wOBA leaders
Link to Triple-A xWOBA leaders
Link to Volpe gamelog
Link to Cruz vs. El-Sayed
Link to Vivek’s football jersey
Link to EW on politician sports fails
Link to Jeffries bat post
Link to Vivek’s baseball post
Link to eyewitness account
Link to Vivek’s tennis post
Link to Vivek’s bowling post
Link to Vivek’s basketball post
Link to post deletion story
Link to Vivek name article
Link to Curtis on baseball language
Link to list of Baumann games
Link to Eisenhower baseball controversy
Link to RoS ZiPS projections
Link to 2028 ZiPS projections
Link to rest-of-career ZiPS projections

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