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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley welcome two old friends back to the show to discuss their teams&#8217; recent Fall Classic matchup: former Effectively Wild co-host/FanGraphs writer (and current Rays Senior Analyst, Baseball Process & Strategy) Jeff Sullivan, and former FanGraphs writer (and current Brewers Senior Director—Player Information and Personnel) August Fagerstrom, the latter of whom just became the first FanGraphs alum to earn a World Series ring, at the former&#8217;s expense. They talk about playoff anxiety, the feeling of winning (and losing) the World Series, scouting each others&#8217; teams and the similarities between the Brewers and Rays, tailoring team tactics to personnel vs. the other way around, how responsible they feel for their clubs&#8217; successes, the differences between internal and external projections, ABS strategy, front-office turnover and continuity, internal team podcasts, and more.
Audio&nbsp;intro: Beatwriter, &#8220;<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VtGnSCg2jHV4rEAyhuDuD1WHJrnluwXp/view?usp=drive_link" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Effectively Wild Theme</a>&#8221;
Audio&nbsp;outro: Tom Rhoads, &#8220;<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K07EyCA31NglTFT3h8Rdiiu0lpDyz9u_/view?usp=drive_link" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Effectively Wild Theme</a>&#8221;

<a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/author/jeff-sullivan/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Jeff&#8217;s FG author archive</a>
<a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/author/dapperslacks/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to August&#8217;s FG author archive</a>
<a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-901/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Episode 901</a>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Whj82D67hv5RovhF8vZnuIFEw87YMKuVYkGj2mNBG4k/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to EW guests sheet</a>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1xjow5l/stacys_mom_daniel_vogelbach_cover/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Vogelbach&#8217;s song</a>
<a href="https://www.theringer.com/2026/10/23/mlb/five-trends-that-define-the-2026-mlb-playoffs-world-series-brewers-rays" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Ben on Brewers/Rays similarities</a>
<a href="https://andrewballnotes.substack.com/p/how-the-rays-and-brewers-keep-winning" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Ball on the Brewers/Rays</a>
<a href="https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/11/athletics-hire-brewers-cam-castro-general-managers.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to MLBTR on Castro</a>
<a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/matt-roffe-to-be-white-sox-director-of-amateur-scouting" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to MLB.com on Roffe</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7742521/2026/11/01/astros-gm-search-randy-flores-lockout-matt-kleine/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Kleine report</a>
<a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/brewers-using-green-index-cards-in-phase-two-of-abs-plan" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Brewers index cards</a>
<a href="https://sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-mariners/shannon-drayer/seattle-mariners-dave-cameron-blogfather-shape-roster" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Link to Dave/Jeff/Williamson story</a>

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