Effectively Wild Episode 1617: Did Sabermetrics Break Baseball?

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley reflect on the fact that it took a former player to hire Kim Ng as MLB’s first woman general manager, follow up on the unwritten rules controversy surrounding Kyuji Fujikawa’s final out, and evaluate two recent statements by Scott Boras, then (24:07) bring on Baseball Prospectus’s Patrick Dubuque and FanGraphs’ Dan Szymborski to discuss whether baseball is “solved,” how sabermetrics has benefited and broken baseball both economically and tactically, and whether its effects were foreseeable, and preview how the shortened season has altered 2021 ZiPS projections and the 2021 Baseball Prospectus annual. Audio intro: Lone Justice, "Soap, Soup and Salvation" Audio interstitial: Field Music, "Choosing Numbers" Audio outro: Neil Young, "Too Far Gone" Link to Joe Sheehan on Kim Ng Link to article about Fujikawa Link to Fujikawa’s tweet Link to source of first Boras quote Link to source of second Boras quote Link to Patrick on baseball being solved Link to Patrick on transactions Link to Ben on the Overwatch meta Link to Ben on the Overwatch meta again Link to Dan’s 2021 ZiPS primer Link to preorder Baseball Prospectus 2021 Link to Meg on Hang Up and Listen  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Sponsor Us on Patreon  Facebook Group  Effectively Wild Wiki  Twitter Account  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source