Baseball Beyond Batting Average Podcast

An introduction to advanced baseball statistics. Hosted by @mosley_mark & @sportcardbacks. bbbapodcast@gmail(dot)com

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@b_outliers My humble opinion:

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Here’s what we do: Expand both leagues by one team (Montreal, Portland, Vegas, whatever) and make four 4-team divisions in each league. Only the division champs get into the playoffs. The LDS, LCS, and World Series remain unchanged. (2/5)

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@baseball_ref The “fan favorites” didn’t fare very well (so far; poll still open).

Murphy is at the top with 69%. A trio of catchers follows: Posey 58%, Molina 50%, Munson 46%.

Surprises: Mattingly 27%, Garvey 15%

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Who else belongs in the Hall of Fame?

Choose from the top 100 retired (eligible and ineligible) players in order of @baseball_ref WAR in this Google Form:

https://t.co/AQzETS0f38

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Who else else belongs in the Hall of Fame?

Choose from some popular retired (eligible and ineligible) players in order of @baseball_ref WAR (beyond the previous top 100) in this Google Form:

https://t.co/Fa7TXh3SRK

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I thought you would be nicer than the BBWAA voters. You weren’t—way meaner.

Who doesn’t think Ichiro is a Hall of Famer? Who doesn’t think Miggy is a Hall of Famer?!?

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Very surprised by these results (so far; poll still open):

Only 2 above 75%:
Pujols 94%
Ichiro 89%

Then:
Whitaker 74%
Cabrera 71% (!?!?!?)
…

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Who else else belongs in the Hall of Fame?

Choose from some popular retired (eligible and ineligible) players in order of @baseball_ref WAR (beyond the previous top 100) in this Google Form:

https://t.co/Fa7TXh3SRK

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@bballhist Thank you! I’m shocked by the low numbers.

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@baseball_ref Here are the results (picture only shows the first 5 submissions):
https://t.co/QpaFHzTm2K

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@TheSnortingBull @baseball_ref Hadn’t planned on it, but that’s a cool idea.
@mosley_mark

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@TheSnortingBull @baseball_ref See the first poll for Boyer. I just added Flood. Good call.

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Who else belongs in the Hall of Fame?

Choose from the top 100 retired (eligible and ineligible) players in order of @baseball_ref WAR in this Google Form:

https://t.co/AQzETS0f38

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@gallagwar You’ll see Munson, Yadi, Lance Parrish in round 2. I’m not optimistic about how people will vote for them, though!

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If you’re into this sort of thing, check out our episode 44–Revisiting 1990s Cy Youngs.
https://t.co/UpFw2tcszG

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1990 American League Cy Young Award Voting:
Welch 1st, Clemens 2nd, Stewart 3rd, Thigpen 4th
Who should have won? (Poll attached)

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@MrBaldGuyJoe @sportcardbacks Akin to a muff, I assume.

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@NateStacho Thanks! We’ve got another one in the works. We’ll try to keep the in-between days to more like 195.

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A few of you didn’t listen to our last 2 episodes.

Ep 77 crowns the greatest baseball family of all-time:

https://t.co/CvJ3YVuAXv

Ep 78 has guest Kirk McKnight and a discussion of his book The Voices of Baseball (buy it here https://t.co/jB5RKlpvY6):

https://t.co/URwmZ5k0ER

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@MrBaldGuyJoe Impressive.