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above all else, has sort of crowded out other important priorities for baseball teams to think

about, like treating their players humanely, like building an entertaining product for fans.

And so that, that, I think, is a sort of problematic undercurrent of a lot of the early

baseball prospectus stuff.

Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Zyron. This week we speak to independent journalist Rob Arthur, who has written for 538.com and The Ringer about why there have been so many home runs, not just this season, but over the last decade in Major League Baseball.

The theory is abound, and Rob Arthur is known as the person who cracked the code.

Also, I've got some choice words about Brandon Taubman and the Houston Astros.

Got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Ass down awards.

I also have a letter that I want to read from a listener and more.

But first, let's talk to Rob Arthur.

Before I ask you anything about the baseballs and their quality or lack thereof, I just wanted to ask you, have you always been a baseball fan?

No, I have not.

I was originally a PhD student in evolutionary genetics, and I finished my PhD in around the same time I got an offer to work at 538, Nate Silver's data journals on site, writing about baseball, essentially on some blogging I had done. And so I switched careers and went into baseball writing and as well as writing about some other stuff, typically using some

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