Stolen Signs
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Stolen Signs
Kendall Guillemette and Harry Pavlidis discuss baseball statistics, as well as look for the stories and people behind the stats.
Recent Episodes
35 episodesEpisode 36: Dingers, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and ARod
We talk about the Great Home Run Surge of 2019, the Rabbit Ball, Slippier in the Air Ball, the call up of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alex Rodriguez on...
Episode 35: New MLB Rules with Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal
We talked with Jared Diamond about recent MLB rules changes. Specifically related to one of our favorite subjects, two-way players. We address how tea...
Episode 34: Projection Roundtable with the creators of ZiPS, Steamer, THE BAT and Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA
We chatted with the creators and maintainers of four major projection systems, ZiPS (Dan Szymborski), Steamer (Jared Cross), THE BAT (Derek Carty) and...
Episode 33: PECOTA 2019 with Jonathan Judge and Rob McQuown
Deep dive into DRC+ and PECOTA with Jonathan Judge and Rob McQuown of Baseball Prospectus.
Episode 32: How big can this Hall get?
Shohei Ohtani revisited, baseball Hall of Fame bar lowering and how it affects who gets in, lining up optimal player development and what happens when...
Episode 31: Changing Pitchers, Changing Players, Changing Owners
Harry and Kendall talk about the quantifying The Opener phenomenon, Bill James' comments about replacing players, trying to figure out if regular base...
Episode 30: In the playoffs (and always) pitching and catching are important
In the playoffs (and always) pitching and catching are important
Episode 29: Building a Baseball Team for the Playoffs and the Future
We talk about how you build a baseball team for the playoffs and the future. It’s good to talk about baseball. Enjoy the playoffs.
Episode 28: Women's Baseball World Cup and the Rise of the 100 MPH Pitcher
Harry and Kendall talk about the Women's Baseball World Cup, then look at how the number of 🔥high velocity🔥pitchers has increased over the last 10 y...
Episode 27: Bringing numbers to the booth with Jason Benetti
We visit with Jason Benetti, television play by play announcer for the Chicago White Sox. We talk with him about his start in the business, taking ove...
Episode 26: It seems the seam material has a material impact with Dr. Meredith Wills
Talking about the materials that make up a baseball with Dr. Meredith Wills. We also revisit two-way players, dig into defensive metrics and why they'...
Episode 25: Sergio Romo is The Opener with R.J. Anderson
R.J. Anderson of CBS Sports came on to talk with us about the Rays recent usage of Sergio Romo as a starting pitcher. We talk about whether this conce...
Episode 24: Report of the Committee Studying Home Run Rates in Major League Baseball
We discuss the Report of the Committee Studying Home Run Rates in Major League Baseball released on May 24, 2018. We talk with committee chair Dr. Ala...
Episode 23: Evaluating Baseball Statistics with Sam Miller of ESPN
Sam Miller joined us to talk about his recent article about evaluating Statcast's new Pop Time metric. Surprising exactly no one, we also talk about S...
Episode 19: Park Factors and Pitch Design
When we talk about park adjusted stats, and park factors, what does all of that mean? How do we arrive at those numbers and how do we account for chan...
Episode 18: Making PECOTA with Jonathan Judge and Rob McQuown
We talk with Jonathan Judge and Rob McQuown, who oversee Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA projections to get some more insight into how the projections are...
Episode 17: These Are Not the Robot Umpires You're Looking For
We talk to Jeff Long, Sean O'Rourke, Wayne Boyle, and Russell Carleton about their recent Pitching Week article about the Robot Strikezone and Robot U...
Episode 16: Inning(s) Eaters and Aces
Stolen Signs is back. Harry and Kendall talk about the slow offseason, collusion and ideas on how to change the economics of baseball. After a short b...
Episode 15: Twas the Episode Before Christmas
We touch on many issues of the day as we wrap up 2017 in style.
With that we bid you farewell for the year. Happy holidays to all, and we look...
Episode 14: Shohei Otani and Japanese Baseball with Ben Lindbergh and Kaz Yamazaki
We talk with Ben Lindbergh and Kaz Yamazaki about the NPB posting system, differences between the mounds, balls, culture of MLB and NPB and dig a litt...
Episode 13: Wins Above Replacement discussion with Sean Forman (bWAR), David Cameron (fWAR), Greg Matthews (openWAR), Rob McQuown and Jonathan Judge (WARP)
We welcome Sean Forman from Baseball Reference, David Cameron from FanGraphs, Greg Matthews from openWAR, Rob McQuown and Jonathan Judge from Baseball...
Episode 12: Making Sausage and Catching Up
Harry and Kendall look back at the World Series, discuss the Cy Young awards and the BBWAA vote has lined up with BP's pitching metrics over the past...
Episode 11: Unusual Paths to the Rotation and Everything Old is New Again with Jarrett Seidler
This week Harry and Kendall talk to Jarrett Seidler from the Baseball Prospectus Prospects team about the cyclical nature of baseball in general, and...
Episode 10: Looking back at PECOTA
We start by talking about projection systems in general, then dive into 2017 PECOTA team projections. We look to see how adding in actual playing time...
Episode 9: Playoff Formats and Rosters w/ Rob Arthur, Ben Diamond, Greg Matthews, and Travis Sawchik
We sat down with Rob Arthur, Ben Diamond, Greg Matthews, and Travis Sawchik to talk about the MLB playoffs. We touched on playoff formats (past, prese...
Episode 8: Pitcher Similarity Scores
This week Harry and Kendall discuss pitcher similarity scores. Where did they come from? What are they? What can they be used for? And what might they...
Episode 7: The Rise of the Two-Way Player
With the news of Shohei Ohtani's imminent posting from the NPB, this episode we talk with Sung Min Kim from the Sporting News about the posting system...
Episode 6: Baseball and Psychology with Dan Brooks and Russell Carleton
This week Harry and Kendall welcome Dan Brooks from Brooks Baseball and Russell Carleton from Baseball Prospectus. We talk with Dan and Russell about...
Episode 5: Sabermetrics Timeline
We go through a rough outline of the history of sabermetrics. And we also want to ask for your help. We're sure we missed things. If you know of so ke...
Episode 4: Stats and Storytellers with Jonah Keri
This is the first in a new recurring series called Stats and Storytellers. We're excited to welcome Jonah Keri as our first guest. Our conversation wa...
Episode 3: Not Just Academic: Rob Arthur and Jim Albert on the Hot Hand
This week we talked to Rob Arthur of FiveThirtyEight and Jim Albert, professor of mathematics and statistics at Bowling Green State University about R...
Episode 2: DIPs, FIP, DRA and You
On Episode 2 of Stolen Signs we briefly recap SaberSeminar 2017, answer a listener email about how to learn more about baseball stats, and we have a d...
Episode 1: Welcome to the Stolen Signs Podcast
This is episode 1 of the Stolen Signs podcast, a new podcast from the stats team at Baseball Prospectus. Your hosts Kendall Guillemette and Harry Pavl...