First-Week ‘Real or Not Real’ and April’s Statistical Lies (Ep. 63) from The Ringer MLB Show

First-Week ‘Real or Not Real’ and April’s Statistical Lies (Ep. 63)

45 minutes Posted Apr 27, 2017 at 6:57 pm.

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann review a dozen developments from the first week of the season and analyze whether they're signs of things to come

Then they bring on Baseball Prospectus writer Rob Mains to talk about how April differs from the rest of the regular season

and how fans (and fellow writers!) can avoid being misled by early-season small-sample results

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann review a dozen developments from the first week of the season and analyze whether they're signs of things to come (02:00). Then they bring on Baseball Prospectus writer Rob Mains to talk about how April differs from the rest of the regular season (23:00) and how fans (and fellow writers!) can avoid being misled by early-season small-sample results (41:30).

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