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Good morning and welcome to episode 426 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast

from baseball prospectus, presented by the baseballreference.com play index.

Yo soy Benlín Berg, joined as always by Sam Miller.

We have an exciting guest today, I'm happy to talk to in a recent issue of sports illustrated

Eric Newsbaum wrote an article about how saber metrics has spread to Cuba and it has developed

a little bit differently in isolation from from the American saber metrics we know,

sort of like Darwin's fitches on an island, going through their own evolution.

And there is a group in Cuba called the independent group for baseball investigation

and we are talking to one of the co-founders of that group today Alejandro Aldama.

So we are speaking to him now in Cuba Alejandro, thank you for joining us.

Thank you so can you do so can you tell us a little bit about how you discovered saber metrics,

how the other members of the group discovered it and how you came together to study this.

I'm not sure exactly what was the point in we were found or we found as our metrics,

but we were kids, we played a lot of video games and suddenly we found a new statistics,

it was on baseball centers that chuck us, we were like baseball, something like that.

And suddenly we realized there were people who knew things we did not.

So that really impressed us, I think that was the beginning.

And did you did you do research and study these things on your own before you discovered the work

that had already been done?

Yes, we did, we have to do a lot of things.

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