Sabermetrics

So I got to learn everything about what was going on there, and like the whole like, um-

Sabermetrics, man.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, the whole like, whole analytical side of baseball takeover that time.

Walt.

Sabermetrics Livestream, back at you.

Already not doing what I'm supposed to and having the background ready for us.

So that's good.

But as always, Sabermetrics Podcast, my name is Bill.

Next on me, as always, is Walt.

On this Livestream Wednesday evening edition.

Definitely not a great start so far.

It's- Well- It's about drafting your rotation.

It's about appeasing the Sabermetrics.

And you make the case for it.

I get it.

I talked to David Roberts about this, and he explained it very well to me.

It's like, you know, the way his managing style is, he was a Sabermetrics guy when he got the job.

That's pretty much how he got the job because he knew it so well.

But he also had some stuff inside that he wanted to do on the field or with certain players that he wasn't allowed to do right away as a manager.

The Sabermetrics says this, he went with the program.

But as you win over time, then you can implement certain things into how you manage and how you deal with certain situations.

And I think that part, I'll have to gain patience to be able to get to that point.

And while Williams was over 90 pitches, I mean, you got to think that maybe they were hoping if he could get Vargas out, maybe if he can get another couple of quick outs, it just delays the White Sox getting into the Guardians' bullpen.

And that wild pitch by Zebrowski, who I love John Greenberg's tweet about that's a name that sounds like a Chicagoan or a traditionalist that just started embracing Saber Metrics.

But that wild pitch in the sixth and Bailey playing it absolutely terrible.

I mean, that was one of the most lackadaisical attempts at catching.

Today is the seventy-seventh birthday for Bill James.

Who the heck is that? American baseball writer and statistician, the founder of Sabermetrics, the inspiration behind Moneyball baseball, Bill James, seventy-seven years old today.

Today is the sixty-first birthday of Mario Lemieux, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center and team owner.

Also sticking on the hockey theme, Patrick Roy, always fun to say, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame goalie, four-time Stanley Cup winner, three-time Vezina Trophy winner, born in Quebec City, Quebec, 1965.

when you won on, when you went on that, what, 18, 19 game winning streak earlier, I ain't hear from you.

Nah, he, he was cool with Sa- uh, Sabermetrics.

He was cool with the, he was cool with the analytics, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

And then you go give that player $25 million a year, and then you've come to find out that it was a one-off and they regress.

And so I believe Sabermetrics has helped that.

But you'll even see new age players.

Sonny Gray's more old school because he made his debut, I want to say, late 2000s going into the early 2010s because he's 37.

ESPN did a documentary series on him that was also very interesting.

And he created what became known as Sabermetrics.

Insiders in the industry ignored him for years, but the Red Sox took a flyer and they hired him as a senior baseball operations advisor in 2002.

And they won the World Series subsequently in 2004.