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Effectively Wild Episode 2510: The Desire to Acquire
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast›
Jul 28, 20261:47:07
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s daughter’s first MLB game, and Ben briefly interviews the four-year-old Sloan about her spectator experience. Then they discuss the MVP races (with an emphasis on Pete Crow-Armstrong’s status as the NL frontrunner over Shohei Ohtani), the Nationals and Red Sox swapping Curtis Mead and Connelly Early, a Kerry Wood trick pitch, John Kruk’s Sunday Night Baseball attire, teams’ tendency to covet Tarik Skubal vs. their reluctance to trade top prospects for rental players, and the biggest pre-deadline positional strengths for non-contenders and positional weaknesses for contenders.
Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Dodgers vs. Mets game
Link to “if baseball were different” wiki
Link to Goodnight Baseball
Link to Decoy Saves Opening Day
Link to Moana box office
Link to Maui’s nipples article 1
Link to Maui’s nipples article 2
Link to Disney nipples history
Link to Mario nipples article
Link to FG WAR leaderboard
Link to B-Ref WAR leaderboard
Link to Roberts on MVP Ohtani
Link to Ohtani pen session news
Link to top baserunners
Link to Paine on PCA
Link to Witt injury article
Link to MLBTR on the Nats-Sox trade
Link to FG on the Nats-Sox trade
Link to Red Sox HR leaders
Link to Breslow quote
Link to Friedman quote
Link to winner’s curse wiki
Link to team SP projections
Link to Mead injury article
Link to Wood Reddit post
Link to Wood tweet
Link to “what kind of move” tweet
Link to Meg’s Kruk post
Link to article on Kruk broadcast
Link to Sheehan on rentals
Link to Cooper on traded prospects
Link to Paine on deadline deals
Link to Dan S. on deadline importance
Link to irresistible force paradox
Link to Juggernaut meme
Link to replacement-level killers series
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to projected positional WAR
Link to Ben’s color-coded spreadsheet
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"Effectively Wild Episode 2510: The Desire to Acquire" is an episode of Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast. Runtime 1 hr 47 min. Published July 28, 2026. Hit play above to stream it here, or open the free Spot Sports app for background play and offline downloads.
