Summary[]
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about a recent spat of basebrawls, Clint Hurdle vs. Javier Baez and bat flips, Shohei Ohtani’s latest heroics, what bullpens do during brawls, and a fun-fact-free player, then bring on MLB Advanced Media’s Mike Petriello (23:19) to discuss what’s new with (and next for) Statcast, the system’s growing pains and commitment to accuracy, writing for a league-owned entity, MLBAM’s philosophy about rolling out enhancements, the most exciting (and most overrated) Statcast players, why Statcast stats get released, the data imbalance between teams and outside analysts, how Statcast has changed the writing process, a Statcast quiz, and more.
Topics[]
- Mike Petriello joins show
- Statcast ideas that can now be done due to more information
- Outs above average
- How you write, because the bosses are the people you write about.
- What's coming next
- Why are you making all of this info public, and do the teams get provided with more info than the public?
- To what extent is the information scrutinized by people outside?
- How dependant on the stats have you become?
- Mike favorite stat?
- Is there a new statcast darling?
- Statcast quiz
Interstitial[]
- D’Angelo and The Vanguard, "Back to the Future (Part I)"
Banter[]
- MLB fight night
- Clint Hurdle is mad about a Javy Baez bat slam
- Shohei Ohtani hit a triple
- An email about baseball fighting unwritten rules.
- Chris Stratton’s fun fact
Notes[]
- Ben and Jeff take the side of Javy Baez.
- Shohei Ohtani hit is triple off the inside fastball, where teams were attacking him.
- Shohei Ohtani had 5th fastest home to third time.
- The only rule for a bullpen guy in a fight is run as fast as you can toward fight, half assing it will let your team know you don't care.
- Chris Stratton had no fun facts to put on scoreboard.
- They have folded wall adjustments to outs above average stat.
- They are working on shift and positional tracking on every single pitch and sprint speed among others including a re-imagined pitch movement graphic and infield defense.
- The commissioner wanted all of this information public.
- All 30 teams get the raw feed of statcast.
- Dave Cameron once wrote an article about Felix Hernandez throwing first pitch fastballs, he had to go through and actually watch and mark each fastball.
- Mike’s favorite stat is expected WOBA.
- Seth Lugo, Franchie Cordero, Jorge Alfaro, Jose Martinez, and Tayron Guerrero are outstanding statcast guys.
- Lowest average launch angle is Jonathan Villar.
- Highest average launch angle is Yoenis Cespedes.
- Luke Bard has the highest 4 seam spin rate.