Episode 256: "A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Baseball's advanced statistics can be confusing. WAR. FIP. wOBA. wRC. What does it all mean? Anthony Castrovince joins us to discuss how to make sabermetrics accessible to all fans, even those who are most comfortable with traditional metrics like wins, batting average and RBIs.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell the me, I believe
0:05.0	The Giants
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0:08.0	The Pellant!
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0:10.0	The Giants!
0:12.0	The Giants!
0:13.0	The Pellet!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:17.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:22.0	I'm ready to play today.
0:40.3	Hey, everybody. me, I can be center of you. Hey everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the book, the podcast in which we
0:46.9	talk to authors of baseball books past and present. I hope everybody out there is social
0:52.1	distancing, wearing masks, and doing everything necessary
0:55.4	to keep yourself and everybody else safe.
0:58.1	Today we are joined by Anthony Castrovins, who's here to talk about his book, A Fans Guide
1:03.5	to Baseball Analytics.
1:05.5	We'll get to that in just a second.
1:07.3	First, though, I want to remind everybody, if you haven't done so already, please take five minutes to go to Apple Podcasts or whatever your podcast app of choice is and leave us a five-star rating and a review.
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