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.

Kyle, how's it going?

It's going great. We've had some exciting pitching matchups today.

So great, great day for baseball, great day to talk baseball. How you doing, Nate?

I'm doing great. Would you say if you doing nate i'm doing great would you

say if you you know had to put your week on a league normalized scale what does that turn this week into

is that is that is that a 110 week plus is it 10% better than league average or you know what's that

what's that what's that looking like i think the the week's like a 105 week plus but if we're talking

like day like today's probably like a 115 day plus.

Like it's been a pretty good day.

You know, your whole arsenal across the full week is important.

It's important to have a wide mix.

But that kind of goes into today's topic.

We're going to be talking about WRC plus or weighted runs created plus.

It's one of my favorite stats when it comes to talking about

hitter performance and one kind of overarching stat. And with any plus stat, as I was kind of just joking about,

it's super easy to be able to reference kind of with just like a simple glance where 100 is league average,

you know, a 110 is going to be 10% better, a 90 is going to be 10% worse,

and so on. So it really, you know, gives you that quick insight into what that number means,

how a hitter's performing, stuff like that. But we're going to be going under the hood with

WRC plus, kind of like we do with every stat here on the approach angle, but we're going to be

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