Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the long-awaited baseball events that occurred during Ben’s brief vacation, highlighted by Rich Hill’s return to the majors. They also discuss developments involving other quadragenarian pitchers, provide an update on their “2025 in 2025” Patreon campaign, and consider Bryan Woo’s parents’ dedication to attending all of his starts, additional aspects of the Brewers’ success, the Angels’ lack of rotation turnover, Myles Straw vs. Roki Sasaki, and an especially impressive Ronald Acuña Jr. throw. Then (59:10) they bring on author and researcher Mark Armour to talk about the Satchel Paige Project, Mark’s ongoing, yearslong effort to document every game Paige pitched.

Audio interstitial: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”

Audio outro: Josh Busman, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Effectively Wild on Patreon

Link to FG post on Hill

Link to Woo article

Link to Paine on the Brewers

Link to Brewers batters

Link to Mains on the Angels

Link to Whitley on Soriano

Link to pre-ASB SP WAR

Link to Sasaki/Straw post

Link to Ben on Meneses

Link to Acuña throw

Link to Acuña throw article

Link to Baseball Project song

Link to Paige Project article

Link to Mark’s announcement post

Link to Paige Project results

Link to Paige pitching map

Link to most wanted games

Link to Mark’s website

Link to Effectively Wild on Patreon

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