"Analytics-based" show coming to MLB Network

[David]

CHConfidential CHConfidential

by pgammo

- @MLBNetwork's first-ever analytics-based studio show hosted by Brian Kenny debuts 11/7 atmlb.com/n8bdev Follow: @CHConfidential

57 minutes ago

 

 

Has potential to be awesome if they do it right.

 

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19944269&topic_id=7417714

[SABR Gamer]

If they do it right is key.

 

They could just be doing an intro to SABR show, and I guess that would be better than what we have, but idk how excited I'd be about hearing MLB Network explain to the casual fan stuff I already understand.

[Magnetic Curses]

CHConfidential CHConfidential

by pgammo

- @MLBNetwork's first-ever analytics-based studio show hosted by Brian Kenny debuts 11/7 atmlb.com/n8bdev Follow: @CHConfidential

57 minutes ago

 

 

Has potential to be awesome if they do it right.

 

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19944269&topic_id=7417714

 

i don't trust them. i am having visions of former players discussing the importance of productive outs and productive out percentage and other pseudo-analytical terms like BA w/risp, etc.

[SouthSideRyan]

Brian Kenny is [expletive] awesome. I'm optimistic.

[XZero771679666304]

Brian Kenny is [expletive] awesome. I'm optimistic.

 

This. There have been a couple times I thought he was going to strangle Harold Reynolds, like when Harold went Dusty on him and said OBP was overrated because too many guys getting on base clogged them up.

 

You can tell the guy wants to go all analytic, but can't without sending all the meatheads around him into a lather. That said, I'm sure there are at least a couple of former players smart enough to fit the bill for that kind of show.

[TruffleShuffle]

even better would be if they had a rebuttal show immediately after featuring the likes of joe morgan, murray chass and bill plaschke.

[SouthSideRyan]

even better would be if they had a rebuttal show immediately after featuring the likes of joe morgan, murray chass and bill plaschke.

 

I bet the phrase lumpy critic would be used more than once.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

When did Brian Kenny land on MLBN? I hadn't noticed until this weekend.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Looks like 9/19. Thank you, wikipedia.

[Ryno12]

It'd be cool if they brought someone like Brian Bannister onto the show. I know he was into sabermetrics, and tried to incorporate them into his pitching.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

This. There have been a couple times I thought he was going to strangle Harold Reynolds, like when Harold went Dusty on him and said OBP was overrated because too many guys getting on base clogged them up.

 

You can tell the guy wants to go all analytic, but can't without sending all the meatheads around him into a lather. That said, I'm sure there are at least a couple of former players smart enough to fit the bill for that kind of show.

 

DOUG GLANVILLE PLEASE.

[illiniguy]

It'd be cool if they brought someone like Brian Bannister onto the show. I know he was into sabermetrics, and tried to incorporate them into his pitching.

I thought immediately of Doug Glanville.

[rocket]

not a bad show. didn't need any insight from mitch williams, larry bowa, or peter gammons. but i liked the concept, and it could be awesome during the regular season.

[El Duderino]

mitch williams and larry bowa on an "analytics-based" show? That must have been interesting.

[rocket]

neither of them sounded stupid, actually. though for mitch williams' segment, they weren't really talking about stats, they were talking about changes in playoff format.

[17 Seconds]

mitch williams is on it? wtf. there goes my optimism.

 

rule #1 of starting an analytic based show: no ex-players allowed

[TruffleShuffle]

mitch williams owned a bar like 50 yards from where i used to swim growing up. sometimes i went in there for water ice (italian ice). him being sabermetrically-inclined would be perhaps the greatest shock i've ever experienced.

[rocket]

i don't think he'll be a regular. it looks like what they're doing is at the end of the show, they have an 'ombudsman' segment where i guess someone with a more traditional-based baseball mind gets to counter whatever was brought up during the show.

 

yesterday was sean casey.

[jersey cubs fan]

i don't think he'll be a regular. it looks like what they're doing is at the end of the show, they have an 'ombudsman' segment where i guess someone with a more traditional-based baseball mind gets to counter whatever was brought up during the show.

 

yesterday was sean casey.

 

then what is the point of the show? Their entire programming schedule is built around "traditional ways of thinking", why do they need to throw somebody in there to poo-poo?

[SouthSideRyan]

i don't think he'll be a regular. it looks like what they're doing is at the end of the show, they have an 'ombudsman' segment where i guess someone with a more traditional-based baseball mind gets to counter whatever was brought up during the show.

 

yesterday was sean casey.

 

then what is the point of the show? Their entire programming schedule is built around "traditional ways of thinking", why do they need to throw somebody in there to poo-poo?

 

So old men don't throw their cane through their TVs

[jersey cubs fan]

i don't think he'll be a regular. it looks like what they're doing is at the end of the show, they have an 'ombudsman' segment where i guess someone with a more traditional-based baseball mind gets to counter whatever was brought up during the show.

 

yesterday was sean casey.

 

then what is the point of the show? Their entire programming schedule is built around "traditional ways of thinking", why do they need to throw somebody in there to poo-poo?

 

So old men don't throw their cane through their TVs

 

Is that a euphemism for what the GA told Paterno?

[rocket]

i don't think he'll be a regular. it looks like what they're doing is at the end of the show, they have an 'ombudsman' segment where i guess someone with a more traditional-based baseball mind gets to counter whatever was brought up during the show.

 

yesterday was sean casey.

 

then what is the point of the show? Their entire programming schedule is built around "traditional ways of thinking", why do they need to throw somebody in there to poo-poo?

 

hopefully it will be phased out.

 

the 2 times so far they haven't really countered anything stats heavy. mitch williams talked about a new playoff format, and sean casey talked about giving out $100 million contracts.

[Yeti]

not necessarily on topic, but i found it funny and seems to fit here. this came from tonights hot stove live

 

mitch williams: i dont believe in anything i cant spell, so sabermetrics i dont give any credence to.

 

what a buffoon

[SouthSideRyan]

not necessarily on topic, but i found it funny and seems to fit here. this came from tonights hot stove live

 

mitch williams: i dont believe in anything i cant spell, so sabermetrics i dont give any credence to.

 

what a buffoon

 

So he's an atheist?

[treebird]

not necessarily on topic, but i found it funny and seems to fit here. this came from tonights hot stove live

 

mitch williams: i dont believe in anything i cant spell, so sabermetrics i dont give any credence to.

 

what a buffoon

 

So he's an atheist?

 

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