Effectively Wild Episode 2282: Season Preview Series: Twins and Tigers

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Rob Manfred’s Super Bowl cameo, the return of not-terrible uniforms, a new finding in the “familiarity vs. fatigue” debate about the times through the order effect, two more Dodgers signings, and an intriguingly timed alteration to the criteria for two-way-player classification. Then they preview the 2025 Minnesota Twins (46:06) with The Athletic ’s Aaron Gleeman , and the 2025 Detroit Tigers (1:29:21) with The Athletic’ s Cody Stavenhagen . 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 : Josh Busman, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial 1 : Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio interstitial 2 : Alex Ferrin, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Philip Bergman, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Manfred clip Link to Fielder meme Link to uniforms article Link to BP TTOP study Link to previous TTOP research Link to MLBTR on Kershaw Link to FG on Hernández Link to 2024 major league rules Link to 2021 major league rules Link to 2019 rule announcement Link to 2020 press release Link to 2021 press release Link to current glossary entry Link to archived entry Link to Twins depth chart Link to Twins offseason tracker Link to offseason FA spending Link to FG payrolls page Link to A-Rod arb news Link to RP projections Link to 2024 RP WAR Link to SP projections Link to Aaron on France Link to Aaron’s author archive Link to Aaron’s podcast Link to Tigers depth chart Link to Tigers offseason tracker Link to farm system ranking Link to Cody’s author archive Link to Cody’s podcast 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