I have so many questions.

Well, if there are many unanswered questions, good morning and welcome to episode 237 of

Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined

as always by Sam Miller. Today is Wednesday. It's our email show. I think this may have been

my favorite email week ever. There are a lot that I want to talk to and will get to

some of them. So I picked out a bunch. Sam has not read them, or at least he may have

read them when they initially came to our inboxes, but not since then. So I'm just going

to start. This is like, it's like an episode of whose line is it anyways? Every episode

is like that kind of. Okay, so this question comes from Robert. He had a long intro that

had to do with our discussion of FIP from, I guess, last week or recently, and about how

maybe it isn't working as well anymore. And Robert wants to know, given the relative

newness of sabermetrics, do you think there's a point down the road where we look back

comically at what we're using now? Will defense ever be universally quantified? Or will we shake

our heads at how much we relied on war? In short, what do you think the biggest weaknesses are

in sabermetrics? And where will we be 10 to 20 years from now? So basically, I think his question

he wants to know, what steps that we are looking at and consulting and citing regularly now?

Will we, I guess, regret doing so later or look back and think how not advanced we were?

Are there any that you can think of that we were using 10 years ago that are laughable?

Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I guess it seems like there were a lot of less advanced versions of

what we have now, like, I don't know, like range factor or runs created or something like that,

where it's still less. Or when, yeah, when warp would have guys who were like, you know,

regularly 12 to 15 wins. Yeah, right. Trying to think of a stat that we've just totally discarded,

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