Effectively Wild Episode 2280: Season Preview Series: Rays and Brewers

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Mets re-signing Pete Alonso , the Twins signing Harrison Bader , and the compressed standings in the newly released FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus playoff odds. Then they preview the 2025 Tampa Bay Rays (31:35) with MLB.com’s Adam Berry , and the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers (1:09:55) with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ’s Curt Hogg . 2025 EW Season Preview Series AL BAL CHW ATH BOS CLE HOU NYY DET LAA TBR KCR SEA TOR MIN TEX NL ATL CHC ARI MIA CIN COL NYM MIL LAD PHI PIT SDP WSN STL SFG .intro-team, .intro-team td { font-family: lato, Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 20px; } .intro-team .intro-header { /*display: none;*/ text-align: center; } .team-lg { text-align: center; width: 100%; } /* [class^="team-box-"] > div { display: inline-block; width: 48%; } [class^="team-box-"] > div table { width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; } [class^="team-box-"] > div td { background-color: #efefef; border: 1px solid #ccc; line-height: 2; text-align: center; cursor: default; } [class^="team-box-"] > div a { color: #000; text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 100% } [class^="team-box-"] > div a:hover { color: #50ae26; } [class^="team-box-"] > div a.link-inactive { color: #aaa; } */ Audio intro : Moon Hound, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial 1 : Guy Russo, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial 2 : The Gagnés, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Beatwriter, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to FG post on Alonso Link to 2021 Boras study Link to FG post on Bader Link to Byrd wiki Link to FG playoff odds post Link to FG playoff odds Link to BP playoff odds Link to Rays depth chart Link to Rays offseason tracker Link to Adam’s author archive Link to Franco update 1 Link to Franco update 2 Link to Brewers depth chart Link to Brewers offseason tracker Link to Episode 2262 Link to Episode 2263 Link to MLBTR on Contreras Link to Trueblood on Contreras Link to Curt’s author archive Link to EW gift subscriptions Sponsor Us on Patreon Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Spotify Feed Facebook Group Bluesky Account Twitter Account Get Our Merch! var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source