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                  THE BASEBALL RABBI PODCAST

 

Welcome to The Baseball Rabbi Podcast - where Pesach Wolicki and Scott Kahn talk sabermetrics and baseball history, with a dose of fandom, fWAR, and Fenway.

Dec 12, 2018

When Robinson Cano was traded from the Mariners to the Mets, a lot of fans said, "Same old Mets, spending $120 million for the back end of a bad contract." But the Baseball Rabbi argues that there's more to this than meets the eye, and that both the Mets and the Mariners might be winners in this trade (which is...


Nov 28, 2018

By acquiring James Paxton, Brian Cashman did something atypical for him: he traded away a top pitching prospect. Will this work out (which is usually the case with Cashman), or is this another Granderson mistake (yes, you read that correctly)? And when Mike Moustakas doesn't earn the big bucks he expects, will it be...


Nov 22, 2018

In this special offseason wrap-up episode, Pesach Wolicki suggests that World Series winning teams have something in common that belies the common assumption that winning in the playoffs is a roll of the dice. He also gets passionately annoyed about Jacob deGrom's 5th place showing in the MVP race (but not...


Oct 23, 2018

The Los Angeles Dodgers are talented enough that they won the NL Pennant - despite some serious missteps by Dave Roberts. Pesach Wolicki argues that while major parts of managing are hidden from the public, making it impossible for an outside observer to conclusively judge how the manager is doing, we nonetheless...


Oct 17, 2018

Miguel Andujar might be the league's best rookie - and the Baseball Rabbi suggests trading him ASAP. Why do the Yankees have an Andujar dilemma, and what does that tell us about the changes in MLB over the past ten years? Meanwhile, Rico Petrocelli - or somebody - had the strangest career in baseball history by one...