Effectively Wild Episode 1183: Extra, Extra, Read Ball About It

Published: March 1, 2018, 5:15 p.m.

In a bonus, non-team-preview episode, Ben Lindbergh talks to FiveThirtyEight\u2019s Rob Arthur about his new research into the changing construction of the baseball and its possible effect on the rising home-run rate. Then Ben talks to trailblazing baseball researcher Tom Shieber, the senior curator at the Hall of Fame and a recent recipient of SABR\u2019s [\u2026]