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 )
  
  
  
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Note: Episode recorded on 05/11/22

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