Hello and welcome to On the Corner of the Official Podcast to Pitchelist.com.

I'm your host, Eric Somolsky, joined by Nick Pollock.

And I guess I should take a sip of my coffee too since you're taking a sip of your coffee.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, fantasy football is stupid.

Thank you so much for asking.

And what is happening?

We are in December right now. We are. And it's important for us not necessarily to do specific player analysis, but rather understanding what that process is. And if you went to First Mitch Arizona, you would have seen the lovely Eric Simolski. That's me.

And also, you would have seen him give a presentation that I thought was just so fantastic

that I said, Eric, we have to do a OTC episode dedicated to this concept and exploration.

And what is that, Eric?

Yeah.

So I just looked at, I called it what makes a top 25 starting pitcher.

And I tried to just look at overarching trends of what makes a top 25 starting picture.

What are the top 25 starting pictures have in common?

So if we are trying to say, okay, which pictures are likely going to finish in the top 25,

we can go beyond just saying, hey, this guy's really good and try to say, okay, this guy,

you know, kind of meets the threshold of his swing and miss stuff or his fastball command or his

whatever. And so I looked at a bunch of different overlapping traits. I tried to limit like the

surface level stats, right? We understand that top 25 pitchers have good ERAs and low whips and like

high overall strikeout totals because those things just

you're not going to be a top 25 starting pitcher if you don't have that.

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