Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 25, 2015), another edition of “Stat School” — in which our resident expert Neil Paine teaches us the basics of statistical […]
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug. 25, 2015), another edition of “Stat School” — in which our resident expert Neil Paine teaches us the basics of statistical […]
For a 13-year stretch that ended with Wednesday’s trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chase Utley served as the Philadelphia Phillies’ gritty, hard-nosed, tone-setting leader. He grinded out at-bats and played through pain. He was in the starting lineup for the sixth-most victories in franchise history. But Utley has only modest traditional statistics — a […]
For a 13-year stretch that ended with Wednesday’s trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chase Utley served as the Philadelphia Phillies’ gritty, hard-nosed, tone-setting leader. He grinded out at-bats and played through pain. He was in the starting lineup for the sixth-most victories in franchise history. But Utley has only modest traditional statistics — a […]
Dusty Dellinger knows how difficult it is to be an umpire. “There’s an old saying that they expect you to be perfect from day one and get better,” the former Major League Baseball official said over the phone. As the director of Minor League Baseball Umpire Development and the Minor League Baseball Umpire Training Academy, […]
