Effectively Wild Episode 281: The Soft-Tossing Starter Draft/Harry Pavlidis Explains All PITCHf/x

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2013

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ben, Sam, and guest Harry Pavlidis draft slow-throwing starters, and Harry explains the intricacies of classifying pitches and scouting pitchers from PITCHf/x.

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0:00.0	How are we going to, well wait, how are we going to know who won?
0:02.7	I don't know.
0:04.7	Nobody wins in this.
0:05.7	Yeah.
0:06.7	Yeah, I don't think anyone wins this trap.
0:09.5	Good morning and welcome to episode 281 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from
0:15.8	Baseball Prospectus.
0:16.8	Hi, I'm Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller and today for our last show of the week,
0:22.8	we are joined by Harry Pavlidis, who is the new director of technology of baseball
0:29.0	Prospectus.
0:30.0	Congratulations on becoming that.
0:32.5	Well, thank you and hello.
0:36.4	What does that entail exactly?
0:38.6	Tell us and also the people listening what that job description is.
0:43.6	What that job description is, depends on the day and the time of the day.
0:49.7	I really think the job is about ensuring good user experience.
0:55.7	Basically, we deliver all our products virtually through technology, sometimes there's actual
1:00.8	printed books or our humans show up in places and talk to people.
1:05.2	Try to avoid human contact.
1:07.5	Well, it happens to inevitable.
1:10.3	It's part of the job.
1:11.9	So for us, it's technology that supports those things.
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