Ep. 52: The New Stats That Help Explain Surprising Pitching

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann remember Yordano
Ventura (01:32) and talk to Baseball Prospectus writers Jeff Long
and Jonathan Judge about their new attempts to quantify how some
pitchers use command (04:53) and 'tunneling' to achieve more
success than their raw stuff would suggest (24:46). Lastly, Ben and
Michael discuss how stats have changed the way we talk and write
about baseball (50:49) and bring back BP's Meg Rowley for an
abbreviated edition of "What Did Jerry Dipoto Do?” (56:07). Learn
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