Hosts: Robert Shaw and Wayne Parillo

Behind the Numbers is a series of conversations and discussions with blog, sabermetric, and fantasy experts.

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Guest: Steve Slowinski

Writer St Petersburg Times, librarian and contributor at Fangraphs.com, Editor-in-Chief DRaysBay, SB Nation Tampa Bay. Follow him at @steveslow

• Who is Slowinski?  0:29 – 0:51   
• Rob admits to the day sabermetrics made him looked like a moron 0:55 -1:19       
• The struggle to include sabermeterics & focusing on the concepts 1:27 –2:41        
• A real world example involving Kyle Davies 2:42 – 3:51     
• How deep do you go in an article before it’s too much? 4:05 – 5:43    
• Using scouting terms to help educate people 5:44 – 6:56    
• The batter-pitcher crib sheet & sample size 7:08 – 8:30    
• Sliding sabermetrics into fantasy article 8:35 – 9:37      
• Has fantasy helped or hurt the saber community? 9:54- 11:13        
• Discussing Matt Joyce 11:40 – 12:40 
• What is coming up from Steve 12:50 – the end  

 

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