DSH 50 - Talking Pitching w/ Nick Pollack

Dugout Study Hall - Expert layman Matt Goodwin (@TheCorkedMatt) and fake baseball economist Alexander Chase (@chase_rate) celebrate our 50th pod-a-versary with none other than Pitcher List founder, creator, and all-around great dude, Nick Pollack (@PitcherList)! We talk about the DSH origin story, some hitting, the power of pitching stats, pitchers on the move and so much more!

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Timestamps:

• DSH origin story (02:09)
• How Nick preps for drafting hitters (05:15)
• Numbers of the Week: Nick's favorite pitching stats (12:31)
• Which pitching stats are more noise than help? (17:30)
• The new PL player pages being awesome (22:31)
• Case Study: Freddy Peralta (28:23)
• Pitchers on the move + institutional approach (35:44)
• Home/Road splits are dumb (42:38)
• Player projects, confidence intervals, range of outcomes, and predicting "if" (56:08)
• Pass/Fail: Chris Sale and drafting injured pitchers (1:04:05)

Note: Episode recorded on 3/16/22

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