Yo, everybody, welcome to Hacks and Jacks, a podcast all about hitters.

Usually it's myself and my good friend Joe Galena, but I had the opportunity to interview

our stats guru here at Pitcher List, Kyle Bland.

To talk about a new stat, he's come up with using our great PLV data that's pitch level

stuff that really factors in, the types of pitches guys are seeing that they're swinging

at, and turn it, you know, take this contact and power and decision value and bring it all

into a single stat.

It's a really cool way to analyze hitters.

This is a pre-recorded interview I had with Kyle, so, you know, kind of bear with me.

I'm not a great audio editor.

There's a couple of pops here and there.

There's a little bit of noise because that's not necessarily my strong suit, but I hope you'll

bear with us and kind of listen to us talk about Process Plus.

It's an amazing stat.

I think you'll find that it's very useful. If you're one of

our PL pros, you can look up right now. Even if you're not, just the discussion about how players

can be good at hitting, how players can be relevant to us in fantasy. And the different ways just with

the bat, I think is a really interesting conversation. We'll even talk about specific players,

like Matt Walner,

Xander Bogarts, Jonathan India, and how these guys can come to, you know, sort of a similar process plus, which is decision value and power and contact blended into one, in different ways.

And even our thoughts about, hey, is this a sustainable way for a her to be good?

Right. What does it mean if I see a sustainable way for a hitter to be good? Right.

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