Effectively Wild Episode 2276: Them’s the Breakouts

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January 29, 2025

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about some good news and bad news about breakout picks, Junior Caminero’s unbeatable bat flip and home run trot in the LIDOM playoffs, the latest MLB The Show cover model(s) and the lone MLB franchise that hasn’t put a player on the cover of a video game, the Ryan Pressly trade and whether Houston has a plan, and the mysteries of T-Mobile Park’s scoring suppression, plus a Stat Blast (1:28:57) about the players who came closest to team monogamy without quite being faithful to one franchise.

Audio intro: Luke Lillard, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to latest MLB article
Link to Caminero article
Link to Caminero video
Link to Caminero photo
Link to Caminero flip video
Link to Orosco flip article
Link to Prince flip article
Link to Sánchez trot
Link to Soto trot
Link to Soto trot game
Link to Naylor trot
Link to Cruz trot
Link to Santander trot
Link to Marte trot
Link to cover models article
Link to baseball video games list
Link to Ben on pitching prospects
Link to Paine on sports video games
Link to Indiana Jones pod
Link to MLBTR on Pressly
Link to MLBTR on Bregman
Link to MLBTR on Yordan
Link to FG on Pressly
Link to Littlefinger speech
Link to Churchill speech
Link to Petriello on T-Mobile
Link to Statcast park factors
Link to Arneson gravity post
Link to Earth’s gravity wiki
Link to MLBTR on Jones
Link to Stat Blast data
Link to EW gift subscriptions

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SportszillaMember since 2017
10 months ago

Apologies if this was mentioned elsewhere, but doesn’t Deion Sanders (pedantically, but come on) count? He was on the cover of Sega’s NFL Primetime (1995) at the same time as he was a Red. Granted, he was on the cover as a Cowboy, but…

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