Episode 477: Baseball Stats 101
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2020
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John go in-depth about the numbers, stats, and metrics baseball uses to evaluate hitting, from OBP and SLG to WAR and Pythag, explaining the pros and cons of each, the history behind them, and why new things are often building off old concepts with added technology.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:15.8 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week and the geek And the geek And welcome to Baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Every week |
| 0:24.4 | Because the Glemen |
| 0:27.6 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And the geek |
| 0:30.7 | And welcome to |
| 0:32.4 | Gleeman and the Geek podcast |
| 0:34.5 | Special Sabermetric Edition |
| 0:36.8 | Yes That's 101 is what we're going to do today So I'm John Bonus, trinsdaily.com. With me, Aaron Gleven of the Athletic. Hi, everyone. We're not in the K-Fand studio. We're back at the Acosta Day bonus. Today, uh, we've been live studio audience. Yeah. Who's sleeping on the book. |
| 0:55.7 | You don't know if that's crazy. |
| 0:57.0 | Could be Sharre. |
| 0:58.0 | Could be one of your kids. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm not going to say. |
| 1:01.5 | The, |
| 1:01.7 | we don't want to do this as like an episode idea for a long time, but because, you |
| 1:10.7 | know, when the season's going on, there's a lot to talk about it. |
| 1:12.9 | And even during the off season, usually there's been a lot to talk about the last couple off seasons. We've sort of kept pushing it off and pushing off. And so we thought, what better time to do it? Here's this sort of idea. You can, I don't know, and I'll have from now. We'll see how it goes. if we actually followed this structure or not. |
| 1:27.1 | But like we, we've been doing the podcast for eight years and we've been writing the two |
| 1:34.9 | of us for like almost 18, 19 years of all the twins online. |
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