Rich Hill, the Home Run Record, and the Evolution of Position Playing (Ep. 103) from The Ringer MLB Show

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

48 minutes Posted Aug 24, 2017 at 10:28 am.

The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann banter about Rich Hill’s brilliant, heartbreaking, nine-no-hit-inning loss

Giancarlo Stanton’s comments about the single-season home run record

and why every record comes with caveats

Then, they talk to Baseball Prospectus writer Russell Carleton about how teams are abandoning traditional defensive alignments

why it’s becoming more common for players to play multiple positions

and whether techniques such as the four-man outfield, the Waxahachie Swap, and swapping corner defenders based on batter handedness make strategic sense

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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).

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