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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.

Jul 28, 2020

Baseball is back (today, at least), and a fun opening weekend gave Pesach a list of news and notes that just might be storylines for the upcoming season. But Scott is less excited, and thinks that the players should act like Rembrandt (Pesach naturally thinks that this is a bad analogy - whatever it means - and the...


Jul 24, 2020

Cole Hamels looked like he was finished in July, 2018. Then he was traded to the Cubs, and he suddenly started pitching like a star. What happened? Who could have possibly predicted this turnaround? Pesach Wolicki, that's who - and you can hear it in this nine minute flashback episode from August, 2018.


Jul 21, 2020

The 2020 season is about to begin, and things look a bit different from what we anticipated when we had our season preview episodes back in March. Pesach will help you understand what you need to know about the sixty game season and the unusual schedule that's coming up. Stat Guru Moshe Schorr joins us in order...


Jul 14, 2020

Analytics are wonderful tools to help us understand what happened; but from the perspective of the players on the field, the game is often quite different from what fans are able to measure. With that in mind, Pesach and Scott talk to three-time All-Star catcher Jason Kendall about learning how to call a game,...


Jul 7, 2020

Bobby Bonilla Day has come and gone, but the Baseball Rabbi isn't in the mood to celebrate the Mets' futility; Pesach and Scott would rather talk about why buying Bonilla out was a smart move for everyone. (Don't worry, there are plenty of other reasons to mock New York's NL club.) More importantly, in honor of the...