Ep. 52: The New Stats That Help Explain Surprising Pitching from The Ringer MLB Show

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

57 minutes Posted Jan 22, 2017 at 9:40 pm.

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann remember Yordano Ventura

and talk to Baseball Prospectus writers Jeff Long and Jonathan Judge about their new attempts to quantify how some pitchers use command

and 'tunneling' to achieve more success than their raw stuff would suggest

Lastly, Ben and Michael discuss how stats have changed the way we talk and write about baseball

and bring back BP's Meg Rowley for an abbreviated edition of "What Did Jerry Dipoto Do?”

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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).

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