Dugout Study Hall - Expert layman Matt Goodwin (@TheCorkedMatt) and fake baseball economist Alexander Chase (@chase_rate) follow up on last episode's discussion of pitch location metrics, play a guessing game with wRC+ and MaxEV, and discuss more dead-ball impact on the normalization of certain metrics. Help us out with a FIVE STAR RATING and a REVIEW wherever you listen and ENJOY!

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Timestamps:

Off the Books: Follow up on pitch location metrics (01:09)

Analytics: trying to win using math (09:33)

Does the dead ball make pitch location more or less important? (11:49)

Numbers of the Week: wRC+ and MaxEV leaders game (18:06)

Dead ball impact on parks (25:04)

Would it dong? (25:58)

Misshapen balls (34:31)

When can we trust certain metrics with the different balls? (37:39)

Is Josh Naylor for real? (47:42)

Talking about players (51:56)

Andrew Vaughn, Joc Pederson, Gleyber Torres, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Alec Bohm, Christian Yelich

 

Joey Gallo, Josh Donaldson, Joey Votto, Luke Voit, Akil Baddoo, Dylan Carlson, Ozzie Albies, Jose Altuve, Trent Grisham, Trevor Story

Note: Episode recorded on 05/11/22

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