Dan Le Batard 9/7/22 🔥 Hour 2: Best Story
From The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The discussion highlights the return of football and the impending MLB playoffs, emphasizing the benefits of last-minute ticket purchases through the Game Time app for significant savings. It also examines the current state of baseball, focusing on unusual home run and RBI statistics, illustrating how low on-base percentages and shifts have contributed to these anomalies in player performance.
Key Takeaways
- Baseball's offensive struggles are real: league average OBP is now just 310. Hitting isn't what it used to be.
- Home runs are the new singles! When on-base percentages plummet, it's all solo shots—goodbye manufacturing runs.
- Pitchers throwing harder is the new norm; 105mph sinkers make contact feel like playing pinball in a blender.
- The absurdity of modern stats: Trout's nearly 32 HRs with just over 60 RBIs? That’s extreme solo act territory.
- Are we witnessing the end of 'small ball'? With data dictating play styles, it's home runs or bust in MLB now.
Mentioned in This Episode
- Dan Le Batard (person)
- Mike Shura (person)
- Joe Poznanski (person)
- Minnesota Twins (company)
- Sue Bird (person)
- Jeff Passan (person)
- Bryce Harper (person)
- UConn (company)
- Bill Lawrence (person)
- Chris Cody (person)
- Darren Rovell (person)
- Scottie Upshall (person)
- Tim Tebow (person)
- Max Fried (person)
- Justin Verlander (person)
- DraftKings (company)
- Derek Jeter (person)
- Trojan (company)