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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.

Jun 25, 2019

"Being a Montreal Expos fan is a frustration like no other." With the news of the (very unlikely) possibility of baseball returning to Montreal for half a season annually, Pesach finds some old wounds suddenly reopened, and he shares years of baseball trauma with the Baseball Rabbi audience. Scott also opines why teams...


Jun 18, 2019

It's been asked regarding Victor Hugo whether a creative genius can also be relatively unintelligent; the baseball equivalent might be whether a member of the 400 home run club can also be a mediocre player. The answer, evidently, is yes (Hi there, Adam Dunn!); but was this always true? Does the same analysis apply to...


Jun 11, 2019

The Washington Nationals are on pace to do something pretty unusual: lead the league in starting pitcher WAR while losing most of their games. But they don't hold a candle to the '91 Indians, who pulled the trick while losing 105 games. (Read that again. 105 losses while leading MLB in starting pitcher WAR.) How does...


Jun 4, 2019

How good is Justin Verlander, really? That's not a question that's easy to answer, but at age 36, he's doing things that, if he keeps it up, have never been seen in baseball history. The best comparison might be the owner of the Triple-A Round Rock Express, who once was a pretty good pitcher himself, or Jim Palmer, who...