The Welcome to episode 113 of the Sleeper and the Bus Podcast

brought to you by fan graphs.com I'm your host Jason Colette joined live in the

ballpark today by Inosaurus. Good afternoon, bud.

How are you guys doing? I hear the weather is not so great. It's beautiful out here in San Francisco.

Yeah, it's April 29th, which is pretty much the middle of summer for Orlando and the afternoon

rain showers if you've ever visited this market. You know what they're like. Well, they're already here.

And they're a little, there are a couple of days early. Usually these are the May showers and they're here in April so it's been a pretty crappy day

Hopefully we can make it through the recording without any change without the interruptions or whatnot so today we're going to go over some of the you wrote an article today about stabilization rate on

strikeouts and a few things that you're observing there.

Looking at some negative guys right now that are having some issues looking at some of the recent

news that's happened since issues looking at some of the recent news that's happened

since Nick and I talked on Sunday and then let you get off to do some of your

interviews. The topic the main topic today is going to be the the article that

you published over at

Rotographs this morning entitled Strike Out Stabilization and

Surprising Swings and you mentioned the work done by Russell Carlton and

Derek Hardy looking at you know the thresholds when when stats move into a decent

sample size and right now at a hundred and roughly going into since no games have started today

I believe the plate appearance leader is Paul Goldschmidt at 128 plate appearances.

That's enough for us to look at strikeout rates and walk rates and that's it so far.

So that's kind of what we're stuck with.

But you did, you looked into it and found quite a number of guys with a rather positive swing and even a

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