Get what you love is her!

You love her!

All I want is her!

And you go to love her!

Good morning and welcome to episode 667 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectus presented by the Play Index at baseballreference.com.

I am Ben Lembert of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus, Hello Sam.

Hello Ben.

We are going to talk about a new pitching statistic today, why it exists, how it works,

how we should judge pitching statistics, what this one includes that others have not previously.

Baseball Perspectus rolled this out yesterday, it's called Deserved Run Average, DRA, and

it's going to be the backbone of BP's pitching value stat from just about this point forward.

So we are talking today to Jonathan Judge who was an integral member of the team that

produced this stat along with Harry Publidis and Dan Turkincov and Rob McEwan and others

were involved.

But Jonathan is the frontman of this effort.

So hello Jonathan.

Hey Ben.

So tell us why we needed another pitching stat because this is the part of the discussion

where the old school guy who doesn't like the new school stat starts reeling off fake

acronyms to mock the actual acronyms that exist and are in most cases almost as ridiculous

sounding.

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