Out of Left Field
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- Website
- http://soundcloud.com/out-of-left-field-675041586
- Description
- A podcast about the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of baseball.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2021-06-23 23:49
- last episode published
- 2016-06-13 22:35
- publication frequency
- 9.06 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Out of Left Field
- Author
- Explicit
- true
- Number of Episodes
- 17
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Sports & Recreation
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2016-06-13 | Last week we learned about the people behind the math, now we learn about the stats. Sound smart around other baseball fans when you talk about things like BABIP, wRC+, pythagorean winning %, WPA, range factor and more. Who are you calling a dummy? |
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| 2016-06-04 | Bill James, Voros McCracken and Tom Tango are all awesome math wizards who helped to revolutionize the way we analyze baseball. Before we look at how advanced stats are calculated, we look at the people who created them. Bonus: Taryn has never seen a b... |
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| 2016-05-15 | Tommy John and Dr. Frank Jobe took a huge risk in performing the first ever UCL reconstruction surgery, but its success made it a common performance. So what exactly is a Tommy John surgery, and how does it make a pitcher come back from what was once a... |
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| 2016-05-09 | Many baseball fans know the name Tommy John because of the surgery that countless pitchers have undergone, but who was the man behind the ligament replacement procedure? We look at the career of the man who today is better known for the arm fixing surg... |
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| 2016-05-02 | In light of last week's two PED suspensions, we take a look at how performance enhancing drugs make you better at sports, why people take them, and ask "are they really that bad?" If our solution for how to make everything completely equal disturbs you... |
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| 2016-04-25 | Part two of our history of the Negro Leagues takes us from the beginning of the Negro National League to the post-integration era. We discuss the last negro leaguers in the majors, the first white player in the negro leagues and why the Indianapolis Cl... |
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| 2016-04-18 | By now we all know the story of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, but what came before him? This week we learn about the beginnings of black baseball, from the color line being drawn to the dawn of the Negro National League. |
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| 2016-04-04 | Happy Opening Day everybody! In hono(u)r of the new season beginning, we go on a hunt for the origins of baseball and try to track down the original opening day. If you think it was Abner Doubleday who invented baseball, you're dead wrong. |
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| 2016-03-27 | As opening day approaches we look at how an event in 1976 might have turned the structure of the American and National Leagues on its ear. The San Francisco Giants nearly moved to Toronto. We look at how, why, and why things happened the way they actua... |
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| 2016-03-21 | Even though baseball would seem to have a very specific set of skills, there have been a few special players, not Pablo Sandoval, who have been successful at a professional level in baseball as well as other sports. Learn about them and their fantastic... |
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