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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.

May 28, 2019

The Baseball Rabbi Podcast is constantly invoking WAR - wins above replacement - as the most telling of all advanced baseball stats. But how do we explain the instances where Fangraphs and Baseball Reference calculate drastically different WAR numbers for the same player? Using Tommy John as a test case, Pesach and...


May 21, 2019

Adrian Beltre is unquestionably a Hall of Famer, one of the greatest players we've ever seen. But where does he rank among all-time third basemen? Is he just a good player who stayed around long enough to compile amazing stats, or is he another Mike Schmidt? Can a player who wasn't an all star until he was 31...


May 14, 2019

The Nationals, once again, are MLB's strangest team: great pitching, decent hitting, and a rotten record. What's going on? Also, hear Pesach take a bow as his prediction about the Twins seems to be coming true (though he hopes you'll forget about that pesky Red Sox episode two weeks ago), but explains that Minnesota is...


May 7, 2019

After striking out his 3000th batter, CC Sabathia is essentially on the same level as Hall of Famers Niekro, Jenkins, and Smoltz... unless he's more like very-non-Hall of Famer Frank Tanana. Let the Baseball Rabbi help you figure out which is more accurate. Plus: Mike Trout seems to have picked up a brand new skill that...