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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on March 18th, 2014.

I'm Steve Merski.

On this episode, you know, you can confirm that by using run expectancy matrices,

or you can use linear weights and confirm that.

The problem is that what's true on average isn't necessarily true in every circumstance.

That's Andrew Zimbalist, and he is, of course, talking about baseball,

which starts up its regular season March 22, with the Dodgers and Diamondbacks,

playing at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia.

Everybody else cranks it up a week and change later.

Andrew Zimbalist is a professor of economics at Smith College,

and he's probably the foremost sports economist in the country.

His latest book, written with Ben Bowmer, is The Sabermetric Revolution,

assessing the growth of analytics in baseball,

a game like no other in its capacity to generate data, meaningful, and otherwise.

On January 28, Zimblerist sat down with Jay Goldberg,

proprietor of Bergino's baseball clubhouse,

a high-end baseball memorabilia gallery at 67 East 11th Street here in New York City.

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