Hello and welcome to the Approach Angle podcast, a Pitcherless podcast dedicated to teaching you

all things baseball analytics. I'm your host Nate Schwartz, joined as always by Director of

Analytics, Kyle Bland. And today we also have a very special guest, Carson Picard. He's a writer and

podcaster here at Pitcher List, and he joins the show today to talk about our topic

babbip or batting average on balls and play carson welcome to the show how's it going why thank you

very much what a lovely introduction podcaster and writer i you could also include maybe a chief instigator

on the pitcher list discord but but I appreciate it very much.

Well, I think a lot of your research that we're going to talk about today might be instigating

some lovely discussions with the other person on this pod, Kyle, Kyle. We won't ignore you.

How's it going? Hey, good thanks. Happy to, happy to get on and talk about this. I know

baseball stats, especially ones like this are kind of in the news trending right now. So

happy to get this out there and get talking about it. Yeah. So today our topic's going to be

batting average on balls and play, as I mentioned already, better known, and as we will refer to it as Babib.

Carson is currently in the middle of a four-part series looking into the stat, and we thought

it'd be great to talk about the stat in general, but then also have him on to discuss it.

We'll link the articles in the description.

You should have read them already, but if you haven't by some random chance, we'll give you

access to that and all of the other research we talk about today in the description.

And then obviously that coincides really well with a lot of the work that Kyle's done.

He's investigated into stats around Babib

such as expected Babbip and hit luck. So it'll be great to have both of them on as we discuss

what it means for both hitters and pitchers. So we'll start with the fundamentals, get into

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