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An introduction to advanced baseball metrics, one stat at a time. Mark and Andy investigate the meaning and history of advanced baseball stats in an effort to shine some light on the "new" ways of evaluating players.
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76 - 2001 Mariners from 2022-02-12T02:46:17
The 2001 Mariners won as many regular season games as any team in baseball history, but fell short of playoff success. How did a team without Griffey, A-Rod, and Big Unit reach such heights? Mark a...
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75 - Forgotten Stars of the 1980s from 2021-11-20T11:36:49
Mark and Andy are back for another episode of your favorite advanced stats baseball podcast. This time they are highlighting forgotten stars of the 1980s. While it may seem that the 1980s were just...
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74 - 20 Runs, 162 Games from 2021-07-31T13:31:05
Mark and Andy are back for another installment of their baseball stats exploration. Andy explores the list of the 70 20-20 seasons in baseball history. No, not home runs and stolen bases, but 20 ba...
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73 - 100 RBIs and Pitcher Hitting from 2021-03-22T03:24:03
Mark and Andy are back with their latest statistical explorations into baseball's history. This time, Mark looks at some of the most extreme--and worst--100 RBI seasons ever put together. Let's jus...
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72 - Adam Darowski from 2021-03-06T19:20:35
Mark and Andy are joined by Adam Darowski of Baseball Reference to talk about some advanced hitting stats that were recently added to players' pages, rBat+ and rOBA, as well as many other baseball-...
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71 - Manager Stats&Game Scores from 2021-02-21T23:02:10
Mark and Andy pare down their normal gargantuan episodes into one that can be digested in a shorter amount of time. The topics this time are "manager stats"--really an investigation into a team's a...
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70 - Forgotten Stars of the 1960s from 2021-02-08T06:13:53
Mark and Andy are joined on this episode by baseball stats guru Jim Passon. The hosts and their guest take turns highlighting some of the less-remembered stars of the 1960s. As over 50 years have p...
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69 - 1990 National League from 2021-01-20T04:38:39
Mark and Andy are joined by Mark and Jeff from the Two Strike Noise podcast to create a foursome of podcasticness never seen before. The topic? The 1990 baseball season, a subject so nice they had ...
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68 - The 2020 Fourth Annual Inaugural BBBA Awards Show from 2021-01-04T01:07:50
The 2020 calendar year and season can finally be properly wrapped up, as Mark and Andy are back for their fourth installment of the BBBA Awards. This time, along with giving their takes on the exi...
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66 - Rickey Henderson&Tim Raines from 2020-10-19T02:54:27
Mark and Andy do another in-depth examination of two players, this time the similarly-skilled Rickey Henderson and Tim "Rock" Raines. While Mark takes on Rickey in all his glory, Andy handles the u...
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65 - Forgotten Stars of the 1970s from 2020-09-07T12:07:44
Mark and Andy tackle a new kind of topic for the 65th installment of the podcast. This time, they're looking for stars from the 1970s who have been forgotten or overlooked. Although some of the pla...
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64 - Statcast Fielding Measurements from 2020-08-06T01:14:59
Mark and Andy resume their exploration of Statcast measurements by focusing on fielding. Although the data is not readily available for most of it, arm strength, distance covered, and pop time form...
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63 Wade Boggs&Tony Gwynn from 2020-07-10T12:00:33
In the latest in their Second Look series, Mark and Andy dive into the careers of Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn to try to better understand the two players who became synonymous with batting titles in ...
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62 - Statcast Pitching Measurements from 2020-06-11T13:58:24
Mark and Andy are back for another installment in their exploration of Statcast measurements. This time, they focus on the pitching side of things. We always hear about velocity and spin rate, but ...
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61 - The Wax Pack from 2020-04-23T02:11:14
Mark and Andy are joined by special guest Brad Balukjian, the author of the exceptional new book The Wax Pack. Mr. Balukjian gives some insight into how the book came about and what makes it so spe...
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60 - Statcast Offensive Measurements from 2020-03-24T19:03:25
Mark and Andy are back to where it all started, introducing advanced stats one episode at a time. This time though, there's a little twist in that the "stats" are really just measurements, and inst...
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59 - Don Mattingly&Kirby Puckett from 2020-02-19T01:16:37
The careers of Don Mattingly and Kirby Puckett, although divergent in many ways--big-market vs. small-market, first baseman vs. center fielder, Hall of Famer vs. Just Really Good--also overlap cons...
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58 - The 2019 Third Annual Inaugural BBBA Awards Show from 2019-12-31T02:37:33
The 2019 calendar year and season can finally be properly wrapped up, as Mark and Andy are back for their third installment of the BBBA Awards. Along with giving their takes on the existing inferi...
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57 - Card Back Stats from 2019-11-23T14:10:39
Mark and Andy are back to revamp the stats on the backs of baseball cards. Although they didn't completely do away with traditional stats, there are plenty of more advanced stats that deserve a pla...
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56 - Phillies Catchers from 2019-10-25T00:33:47
Mark and Andy are back with your favorite advanced baseball stats podcast after a brief hiatus. The topic this time is Phillies catchers. Your hosts investigate the men who have played the position...
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55 - NL East Mt Rushmores from 2019-09-11T02:22:39
In the final installment of their summer programming, Mark and Andy break down the Mount Rushmores for all five teams in the current National League East. Controversy ensues as the hosts debate, al...
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54 - NL West Mt Rushmores from 2019-08-16T20:45:49
Mark and Andy bring you the fifth out of six episodes in their Mount Rushmores series, in which they determine the faces for the teams of the National League West. This may have been the most diff...
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53 - NL Central Mt Rushmores from 2019-08-03T19:28:32
Mark and Andy continue their "summer programming" with the next in their series of MLB divisions' Mount Rushmores. This time it's the NL Central, as the 5 current occupants of the division take th...
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52 - AL Central Mt Rushmores from 2019-07-20T22:18:12
Mark and Andy wrap up the Mount Rushmores of the American League by naming a top 4 for each team in the American League Central. This episode, just as the previous two, is spiced up with listener ...
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51 - AL East Mt Rushmores from 2019-07-11T02:46:19
Mark and Andy are joined by the voice of Wax Ecstatic, Matt Sammon, to tackle the daunting task of coming up with a Mount Rushmore for every current American League East team. Matt lends his exper...
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50 - AL West Mt Rushmores from 2019-06-29T00:58
The debates about who are the ultimate representatives for the Major League Baseball franchises is sure to be lively and bring up differences in opinions and criteria. Mark and Andy give their tak...
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49 - Braves Second Basemen from 2019-06-10T03:24:15
The great Grant McAuley joins Mark and Andy to discuss the spotty history of Braves second basemen. Stories abound for this collection of names, but choosing the best players to man the position i...
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48 - Rockies First Basemen from 2019-05-28T02:37:50
Todd Helton dominates the Rockies first basemen leaderboards like no other, and although there are only 75 players to have ever manned the position, there are plenty of interesting names, stats, an...
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47 - Andre Dawson&Steve Garvey from 2019-04-27T14:16:07
Your hosts thought it would be hard to make an episode about only one position for one team. Then they did it. Now, they attempt to fill an entire episode about only two players--Andre Dawson and...
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46 - Marlins Leftfielders from 2019-04-09T03:43:35
If you're going to commit to doing an episode about every position for every team, that means you're going to have to do a Marlins leftfielders episode. You might be surprised by how many stars ha...
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45 - Pirates Catchers from 2019-03-23T03:23:41
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been around forever, and their long history affords Mark and Andy the opportunity to dig in deep to the history of their catchers. While a large chunk of time is devote...
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44 - Revisiting 1990s Cy Youngs from 2019-03-05T03:46:42
Mark and Andy attempt to rethink the Cy Young Award winners in the 1990s, but find that, because of a handful of dominant starters, most choices were easy. Even looking at the candidates through t...
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43 - Blue Jays Relief Pitchers from 2019-02-19T03:37:20
Mark and Andy are back with another installment in the every-team-every-position-series, this time with their first Blue Jays episode and their first episode focusing on relief pitchers. You may t...
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42 - Brewers Designated Hitters from 2019-01-15T02:57:57
Mark and Andy return with another episode of your favorite baseball stats podcast, this time centering around the players who have manned the "position" of designated hitter for the Milwaukee Brewe...
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41 - Cardinals Starting Pitchers from 2018-12-29T06:37:53
Mark and Andy are back with what may be their best episode yet--a sprawling, genre-defying, magnum opus of an ode to St. Louis Cardinals starting pitchers. While obvious names like Bob Gibson and ...
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40 - Rangers Leftfielders from 2018-12-11T20:31:24
Mark and Andy get back into the team/position episodes for an exploration of all things Rangers leftfielders. Although Harold Baines was a leftfielder and played for the Rangers, he never played l...
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39 - The 2018 Second Annual Inaugural BBBA Awards Show from 2018-11-22T02:22:34
The 2018 season can finally be properly wrapped up, as Mark and Andy are back for their second installment of the BBBA Awards. Along with giving their takes on the existing awards (MVP, Rookie of ...
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38 - Pirates First Basemen from 2018-11-06T10:36:19
Your favorite baseball podcast hosts return with another installment in their team/position series, this time exploring every nook and cranny of Pirates first basemen. Find out who the statistical...
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37 - Giants Shortstops from 2018-10-23T11:00:20
George Davis, Art Fletcher, Dick Bartell...the names of legendary Giants shortstops just roll off the tongue. Although the tops of the leaderboards of players to man the oxymoronically-named posit...
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36 - Rays Leftfielders from 2018-10-11T23:34:02
The dice have spoken and the first random selection of a team and position is...Rays leftfielders! Mark and Andy dive into the brief history of players who have manned the position for Tampa Bay, ...
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35 - White Sox Catchers from 2018-09-27T02:58:41
Mark and Andy are joined by baseball savant Chris Kamka in the next installment in their series of "every team, every position" episodes. Their guest shines light on the history of White Sox catch...
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34 - Revisiting 1980s Cy Youngs from 2018-09-11T11:03:03
As they did with MVP voting, Mark and Andy revisit the Cy Young voting of the 1980s through the lens of advanced stats to see if the right guys won. In an era in which voting was dominated by wins...
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33 - Mets Third Basemen from 2018-08-13T17:49:56
Mark and Andy are joined by special guest Mark Simon of Baseball Info Solutions to talk about the complete history of Mets third basemen. The trio delve into not only the greatest, but also the ob...
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32 - Braves Catchers from 2018-07-20T20:52:34
Braves reporter Grant McAuley joins Mark and Andy for this deep dive into the storied history of Braves catchers. The result is the most informative episode of BBBA to date, a perfect balance of s...
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31 - Hall of Fame Stats from 2018-07-19T03:34:53
The inclusion in and exclusion from the Baseball Hall of Fame is a continuous source of debate for certain players. Like all things baseball, experts have tried to quantify players' worthiness (an...
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30 - Revisiting 1990s MVPs from 2018-07-02T17:37:45
Mark and Andy once again explore the MVP voting for a whole decade, in this case the 1990s. Using stats that didn't exist during the era, your hosts decide if the choices that voters made were the...
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28 - Dodgers Catchers from 2018-06-14T02:28:43
Mark and Andy investigate the storied history of Dodgers catchers in this episode, the fourth in their every-position-on-every-team series. Several players--like Steve "Marlboro Man" Yeager--manne...
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27 - Twins Leftfielders from 2018-05-31T02:47:05
You may not think much when you think "Twins leftfielders," but the group of players who have spent at least some time at the position is quite impressive indeed. Although Mark and Andy can't agre...
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26 - Yankees Centerfielders from 2018-05-22T23:57:29
In the latest installment of their "every team, every position" series, Mark and Andy explore the rich history of Yankees centerfielders. We all know Mantle and DiMaggio, but there were many other...
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25 - Orioles Shortstops from 2018-05-02T02:34:56
In the second of their series of covering every position on every team ever, Mark and Andy investigate the history of Orioles (and Browns) shortstops through the lens of advanced statistics. Find ...
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24 - Astros First Basemen from 2018-04-17T02:09:39
Is it possible to do an entire podcast episode about Astros first basemen? You bet it is. Mark and Andy, hosts of the funniest baseball statistics podcast ever, investigate the history of Astros ...
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23 - Revisiting 1980s MVPs from 2018-04-07T15:34:15
Having run through a bevy of advanced stats, Mark and Andy use their knowledge to revisit every MLB MVP from the 1980s. Knowing what we know now sheds a different light on some of the voting. The...
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22 - Projections, Predictions, Pace of Play from 2018-03-28T01:37:28
With Opening Day 2018 right around the corner, Mark and Andy look at a few of the prominent projection systems that attempt to predict what will happen this baseball season. While not getting bogg...
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19 - Pitching WAR from 2018-01-30T02:26:49
Finally, an answer to the question, "Why are Mike LaCoss's WAR totals so different between FanGraphs and Baseball Reference?" Around this scalding-hot topic, Mark and Andy engage in a discussion a...
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17 - The 2017 First Annual Inaugural BBBA Awards Show from 2017-11-23T14:47:03
Mark and Andy take a break from the normal focus on individual stats to roll out their first awards show. The hosts give their take on the existing traditional awards in each league, and then intr...
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15 - Pitching Runs from 2017-10-25T23:39:19
After a brief hiatus, Mark and Andy are back to talk about how we take a position whose job it is to prevent runs and measure it with a stat in which more runs is better. Pitching Runs is actually...
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14 - Batting Runs from 2017-10-06T23:24:51
Scoring runs is the ultimate offensive goal in baseball. We have a stat that can tell us how many runs a hitter's efforts contributed to his team above the average. It's called different things, ...
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13 - Baserunning Runs from 2017-09-25T23:42:07
A baseball player's worth on the basepaths has for years been measured solely by his ability to steal bases. Baserunning Runs attempts to account for everything that happens after a batter leaves ...
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12 - Wins? Saves?!? from 2017-09-19T01:28:31
Baseball fans are always looking for the next great metric to evaluate players, but what about the truly terrible ones that have been around for a while? What's so bad about wins and saves anyway?...
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10 - Defensive Runs Saved from 2017-08-29T01:05:48
How do we measure defense in baseball? Traditionally, statistics primarily told us about errors committed, but there's much more to fielding than that. Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) is one of the mo...
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08 - Park Factors from 2017-08-15T00:57:59
To get a true measure of baseball players and teams, many advanced statistics are park adjusted. What exactly does that mean and how is it done? Mark and Andy dive into the many layers of park fa...
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05 - BABIP from 2017-07-22T14:56:58
Mark and Andy look into the mystery that is Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP). How is BABIP calculated and how should it be calculated? What information does it give us about the players i...
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03 - Triple-Slash, OPS, and ISO from 2017-07-09T12:36:37
Mark and Andy finish off the gateway advanced baseball stats by exploring all the different combinations of OBP, SLG, and batting average. Learn about the pros and cons of OPS and ISO and which hi...
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02 - Slugging Percentage from 2017-06-30T15:38:26
Mark and Andy delve into the another gateway baseball stat--slugging percentage. Find out how the stat developed over time, why it's important, and who has sported good and bad slugging percentage...
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01 - On-Base Percentage from 2017-06-22T22:17:11
In the first episode of Baseball Beyond Batting Average, Mark and Andy investigate the gateway advanced baseball metric, on-base percentage (OBP). Find out what OBP means, how it originated, how t...
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