Good baseball podcasts

I suspect this has been discussed before, but despite a lengthy search I couldn't find anything in any forum, so apologies if this isn't the right place for this. Anyway, I've recently realized that I've had a big hole in my podcast life since the Rany and Joe Show (Jazayerli and Sheehan) ceased functioning a while back, and I'm looking for a good weekly podcast with a sabermetric bent that will keep me informed about general issues and talking points around MLB, rotate around the teams taking deep dives from time to time on what's making them tick and not tick, etc. Any recommendations?
 

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Effectively wild is really good, generally 3 times a week throughout the year with one being an email show where they answer often zany baseball questions. Definitely leaning towards saber, though they often focus many of their episodes on whatever minutiae in baseball happens to interest them at the time. I don't think that's a bad thing, but it's not really a show that's going to keep you up to date on the day by day of baseball.
 

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Effectively Wild just replaced Sam with Jeff Sullivan so it's a little less zany and a bit more sabermetrics-y.

Fangraphs also has two other podcasts worth checking out which you can find at their site.

For fluff I listen to Sully Baseball Daily. I've also got The Ringer MLB Show which is weekly and often had great guests.

MLB also does division reports twice a week or so.
 

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I can vouch for Effectively Wild and the Fangraphs podcasts.

And if you're into advanced metrics pertaining to fantasy baseball, there is no finer podcast than Baseball HQ. First episode of the season uploads Feb. 10th.
 

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Everyone else has Effectively Wild pointed out so I’ll tack on there. The ringer MLB show is decent most of the time. The Poscast episodes about baseball tend to be good (Brandon Mcarthy is a regular guest. Sean Doolittle has been on as well) and is a solid podcast all around. Depending on how you feel about Red Sox legend Colin McHugh he hosts an irregular interview show called twelve to six and it’s been a fun listen while waiting for baseball.
 

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Everyone else has Effectively Wild pointed out so I’ll tack on there. The ringer MLB show is decent most of the time. The Poscast episodes about baseball tend to be good (Brandon Mcarthy is a regular guest. Sean Doolittle has been on as well) and is a solid podcast all around. Depending on how you feel about Red Sox legend Colin McHugh he hosts an irregular interview show called twelve to six and it’s been a fun listen while waiting for baseball.
And to update - Effectively Wild rolls on with Lindbergh and Meg Rowley from Fangraphs.

Sam Miller returned since the last recommendation of this podcast in the thread, but now is barred from appearing until his ESPN non-compete expires.

I have enjoyed and empathized with Meg’s sense of humor lately, and she and Ben are a different dynamic for this long-running show.
The recent episode that starts with finding of umpires are mandated to wear black underwear in case they split their pants was good, as a was the first few of their team by team season previews with team-specific guests.
 

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While not Sox related, Kevin Goldstein has a started a new podcast called Up and In. I absolutely loved his old podcast and thought the first episode of this new one was great.
Hi old one was also called up and in. Guess we can't expect Jason Parks to be on this one, but still worth a listen...

Edit: is there a new "Up & In", or just KG on Fangraphs?
 
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Hi old one was also called up and in. Guess we can't expect Jason Parks to be on this one, but still worth a listen...

Edit: is there a new "Up & In", or just KG on Fangraphs?
No that was a screw up on my part. The new one is called "Chin Music"