Effectively Wild Episode 807: Daren Willman Previews Statcast Season Two

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to the new Director of Baseball Research and Development for MLB Advanced Media, Daren Willman, about what’s in store for Statcast in 2016 and beyond.

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0:00.0	We need you, rescue us for our own.
0:07.0	We need you, rescue us for our own.
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to episode 807 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball
0:28.4	perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:32.4	I'm Ben Lemberg of 538, joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives to Los
0:37.2	Sam.
0:38.2	Yo.
0:39.2	Our guest today is the creator of a site that's become indispensable to internet
0:44.7	baseball analysts, baseballsavent.com, as well as its sister sites and
0:49.9	B.A.Savent and NNFEL.
0:51.6	And also MLBFarm.com, which is more of a minor league centric site.
0:57.1	He's also, as of a few weeks ago, the new director of baseball research and development for MLB
1:03.0	Advanced Media, which means he gets to play with Statcast and get paid to do that now.
1:08.6	He is Darren Wilman.
1:10.0	Hey Darren, welcome and congratulations on the new job.
1:13.4	Hey guys, thanks.
1:14.4	Thanks for having me on.
1:15.4	So we will ask you about a bunch of Stat stuff in a second, but contrary to the Stathead
1:21.3	stereotype, you actually played baseball all through college and I couldn't find your
1:25.3	Stat.
1:26.3	So give us a self-scatting report.
1:28.6	Sure, yeah.
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