Hello and welcome to episode 1795 of Effectively Wildly Baseball Podcasts from Vangross,

presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Limberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg

Rally of Vangrass, hello Meg, hello we are continuing the series that we've been doing all

this week about measuring the unmeasurable and talking to authors of research of some difficult

to quantify aspects of the sport so later in the episode we will be bringing on the author of

the site Harib's Hangout to talk about various research subjects but before that we are

joined by our pal and past guest Rob Mainz of Baseball Perspective, Sello Robb.

Hi Ben, hi Meg, happy new year to both of you. And to you, I think this is probably the last day

that people are actually still saying that to each other so we just got in under the wire maybe

or at least that was the essence of the the work conversation that I had today about when it's

acceptable to stop saying that or start saying that you can say it whatever you want you can say

it in June if you want we should all just be having a happier if we can but we brought you on because

you are a researching fiend and you are just constantly researching things and often those things

are difficult to quantify but just before we get to some of the studies that you've done over

the past year we have some news about Sunday night baseball a broadcasting personnel change for

I guess what you would call the flagship baseball broadcast of the week the most prominent

broadcasting crew and we have a change now from the a rod and Matt Pascurgeon booth that we have

had in recent years now Vascurgeon he had already left a rod is now I don't know whether you would

say being relegated to or happily embracing sort of a manning cast kind of alternative broadcast

on yes pn2 that will be more of a hangout just kind of conversation with the Yankees broadcaster

Michael Kaye and the lead crew on ESPN itself will now be Carl ravich with two analysts a hitter

at water Paris and a pitcher David Cohn so what do you all make of the new Sunday night baseball

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