DSH 58 - Pitches, Dongs, and Balls

Dugout Study Hall - Expert layman Matt Goodwin (@TheCorkedMatt) and fake baseball economist Alexander Chase (@chase_rate) follow up on last episode's discussion of pitch location metrics, play a guessing game with wRC+ and MaxEV, and discuss more dead-ball impact on the normalization of certain metrics. Help us out with a FIVE STAR RATING and a REVIEW wherever you listen and ENJOY!

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Timestamps:

• Off the Books: Follow up on pitch location metrics (01:09)
• Analytics: trying to win using math (09:33)
• Does the dead ball make pitch location more or less important? (11:49)
• Numbers of the Week: wRC+ and MaxEV leaders game (18:06)
• Dead ball impact on parks (25:04)
• Would it dong? (25:58)
• Misshapen balls (34:31)
• When can we trust certain metrics with the different balls? (37:39)
• Is Josh Naylor for real? (47:42)
• Talking about players (51:56)

  • Andrew Vaughn, Joc Pederson, Gleyber Torres, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Alec Bohm, Christian Yelich

     

  • Joey Gallo, Josh Donaldson, Joey Votto, Luke Voit, Akil Baddoo, Dylan Carlson, Ozzie Albies, Jose Altuve, Trent Grisham, Trevor Story

Note: Episode recorded on 05/11/22

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