Rich Hill, the Home Run Record, and the Evolution of Position Playing (Ep. 103)

The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann banter about Rich
Hill’s brilliant, heartbreaking, nine-no-hit-inning loss (0:35),
Giancarlo Stanton’s comments about the single-season home run
record (6:10), and why every record comes with caveats (8:10).
Then, they talk to Baseball Prospectus writer Russell Carleton
about how teams are abandoning traditional defensive alignments
(12:40), why it’s becoming more common for players to play multiple
positions (23:40), and whether techniques such as the four-man
outfield, the Waxahachie Swap, and swapping corner defenders based
on batter handedness make strategic sense (33:25). Learn more about
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