Total Bases Podcast: S2E37: 2021 MLB Awards' Season: The Best Offensive Players

Austin (Twitter: @Round_Trippers, be sure to check out his Roundtrippers Podcast) and Felipe (@pathological_h8), discuss the best offensive players of the 2021 Major League Baseball campaign. The show starts off with congratulating the Atlanta Braves winning the 2021 World Series title after their year of turmoil they went through. The guys discuss the importance of making big trades to bolster the roster of contending teams and if it's time for baseball to switch from a tanking methodology to a "win at all cost" philosophy that was was employed by this year's Braves team and the 2019 Washington Nationals. The guys then discuss the best offensive players in baseball beginning with base running and what defines a good baserunner. They also analyze the results of these baserunners effectiveness and efficiency by looking at both traditional and advanced statistics. Finally the show wraps up by naming the best hitters in baseball. Felipe explains his process of using both rate and cumulative stats to come up with his "Best Hitters' Lineup of 2021," while Austin explains how he assembled his lineup by utilizing Harmonic Average. Be sure to check out our YouTube page to check out all the visuals used on this episode under the Life Group Podcast Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPf6FxMCdyg&list=PL7rurb8sZLymR3rjJGHOR7qJywDoyxkz3&index=35&ab_channel=LifeGroupPodcasts You can email the show at [email protected] and keep the conversation going at the Baseball Life Facebook group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1350488401713664