Ben Lindbergh

Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for The Ringer . He also hosts the Effectively Wild podcast for FanGraphs and regularly appears on MLB Network. He is a former staff writer for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland , a former editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus , and the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team . He lives in New York City. Travis Sawchik is a staff writer for FanGraphs and regularly contributes...See more

Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for The Ringer . He also hosts the Effectively Wild podcast for FanGraphs and regularly appears on MLB Network. He is a former staff writer for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland , a former editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus , and the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team . He lives in New York City. Travis Sawchik is a staff writer for FanGraphs and regularly contributes to The Athletic Cleveland . He previously covered the Pirates for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Travis is the author of the New York Times bestseller Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak . Sawchik has won national Associated Press Sports Editor awards, and his work been featured or referenced on ESPN, Grantland, and MLB Network. Sawhcik lives in Bay Village, OH. See less