FanGraphs Audio: Fantasy vs. Reality

Episode 769 The guest on this edition of the program, managing editor Dave Cameron, has a new MacBook. He can’t use it to record the podcast, however, because his mic has a USB cable; his new computer...

20 Syys 201746min

Episode 768 If a general manager were guaranteed that an amateur prospect would produce two-and-half wins in the majors just two years after joining an organization, that general manager would almost ...

19 Syys 20171h 16min

Episode 767 Matt Olson was absent from most or every top-10 prospect list for Oakland entering the season. This year, however, he’s recorded nearly two wins for the A’s in fewer than 200 plate appeara...

14 Syys 201743min

Episode 766 Tim Wu argues in his book The Attention Merchants that “capturing and reselling attention has been the basic model for a large number of modern businesses.” This idea of attention is relev...

13 Syys 20171h 12min

Episode 765 The 2017 season features the highest strikeout rate in the game’s history and the highest home-run rate and the highest collective fastball velocity and the most indulgent use of relief pi...

8 Syys 201750min

Episode 764 Ashley MacLennan is a writer/editor for Bless You Boys, the proprietor of 90 Feet From Home, and the author — under the pseudonym Sierra Dean — of weird, beautiful novels. She was also Fan...

7 Syys 20171h 6min

Episode 763 The average American man is roughly 5-foot-9 and 195 pounds. The most notable major-league player with those measurements isn’t actually American, but he is a catcher. Because American men...

2 Syys 201745min

Episode 762 Roughly two weeks ago, the Houston Astros fired eight scouts in what GM Jeff Luhnow characterized as the first step in an effort by the club to restructure, but not reduce the size of, the...

31 Elo 20171h 12min