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The 2020 calendar year and season can finally be properly wrapped up, as Mark and Andy are back for their fourth installment of the BBBA Awards. This time, along with giving their takes on the existing inferior awards (MVP, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young), your hosts attempt to rename those awards to give it a more BBBA flavor. And as always, they give their own awards to players for accomplishments both good and bad. Returning awards include The Wilfong Award, The Jeter Award, and The Fury Gene "Steamboat" Tenace Award for Excellence in Plate Discipline. The hosts wrap it up with a thrilling version of Roll The Stat by guessing 2020 hitters' career ISOs. Listen and help put the 2020 season, and that miserable year, to rest.

The year was 1987. Mark and Andy were 10 years old and baseballs were flying out of ballparks. Your hosts take a look back at that wondrous time in their youth and try to gain a better understanding of who really were the kings of the diamond that season. Each team gets discussed in some detail, as each host takes a league and looks at the standings and the stars. Some names are expected, like McGwire and Dawson, while others are not so household, like Randy Ready and Garth Iorg. The episode ends with a tight round of Roll The Stat, the advanced baseball stat guessing game that helped us all through a pandemic.

Mark and Andy do another in-depth examination of two players, this time the similarly-skilled Rickey Henderson and Tim "Rock" Raines. While Mark takes on Rickey in all his glory, Andy handles the under-appreciated star Raines. Although the players' careers spanned the same time period and their skills mirrored each other, Rickey was in a league of his own. Find out where his value came from and how Rock measures up as a hitter, baserunner, and fielder. Finish it up by playing along in the latest round of Roll The Stat, in which Mark and Andy tackle a new stat, Championship Win Probability Added, for players who led a league in stolen bases during Henderson's and Raines' careers.

Mark and Andy tackle a new kind of topic for the 65th installment of the podcast. This time, they're looking for stars from the 1970s who have been forgotten or overlooked. Although some of the players mentioned are not all-time greats, several others deserve serious Hall of Fame consideration. Just as the hosts did, hopefully you too will gain a newfound appreciation for the players they mention, such as Ken Singleton, Wilbur Wood, Dave Cash, and Gene Tenace. The show wraps up with a round of Roll The Stat in which the hosts guess the career on-base percentages of 1970s stalwarts. Listen and let them know who they forgot to forget.

Mark and Andy resume their exploration of Statcast measurements by focusing on fielding. Although the data is not readily available for most of it, arm strength, distance covered, and pop time form the foundation for what will come when they look at fielding metrics. The lack of data allow Mark and Andy to discuss some other baseball topics, including their thoughts about MLB's rule changes. The hosts do spend time looking at the pop time leaderboards, and finish the episode with a round of Roll The Stat in which they guess catchers' pop times.

In the latest in their Second Look series, Mark and Andy dive into the careers of Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn to try to better understand the two players who became synonymous with batting titles in the '80s and '90s. Both were hailed as excellent players during their time, so what can we learn? Advanced stats shed some light on just how excellent they were, and allow us to evaluate their all-around game. The hosts wrap it up with another round of Roll The Stat, the greatest advanced stat guessing game developed in the last decade, in which they guess career wOBAs of other former batting champs. It will be the best two hours you spend this week.

Mark and Andy are back for another installment in their exploration of Statcast measurements. This time, they focus on the pitching side of things. We always hear about velocity and spin rate, but do we really understand what makes a pitcher effective? Your hosts attempt to sort through all the numbers and determine what it all means. What they find is that it is not always clear what makes an effective pitcher. Looking at other measurements like extension and movement help, but it's still not obvious what it all means. Included in the episode is a quick digression into the "peak 7" component of JAWS, as well as a round of everyone's favorite advanced stat guessing game Roll The Stat. Listen or get made fun of in the school yard.

Mark and Andy are joined by special guest Brad Balukjian, the author of the exceptional new book The Wax Pack. Mr. Balukjian gives some insight into how the book came about and what makes it so special. The hosts help him break down the players featured in the book, both personally and statistically. While Mr. Balukjian is able to show a side of the players that makes them more human, Mark and Andy attempt to reduce them down to a series of numbers and accomplishments. Our guest plays along in a scintillating round of Which Was Bigger?, while Mark and Andy wrap up the episode with good ol' Roll The Stat, your favorite quarantine advanced baseball stat guessing game. It all makes for one of the best episodes of the BBBA podcast yet.

Mark and Andy are back to where it all started, introducing advanced stats one episode at a time. This time though, there's a little twist in that the "stats" are really just measurements, and instead of one, they talk about four or five different ones. The topic this time around is Statcast stats, and to start their investigation, your hosts are looking at offensive measurements: exit velocity, launch angle, lead distance, and sprint speed. Mark and Andy break down these divisive metrics in an effort to better understand how they're measured and what they mean. Leaderboards and loserboards are utilized to help sort out what kinds of numbers are typical, and which major leaguers have extreme values in all categories. The episode is wrapped up with a round of Roll The Stat, in which the hosts guess players' sprint speeds. Please listen and play along and see if you can also become a Statcast expert.

The careers of Don Mattingly and Kirby Puckett, although divergent in many ways--big-market vs. small-market, first baseman vs. center fielder, Hall of Famer vs. Just Really Good--also overlap considerably. The single-franchise heroes essentially played during the same seasons and have remarkably similar statistical profiles. Each one was regarded as a superstar during a career that was cut short by injury/illness. How does each player fare under the advanced stats microscope? Is Puckett's HoF induction warranted? Is Mattingly's exclusion? Mark and Andy take turns dissecting the careers to allow you to draw your own conclusions. The hosts finish it off with a round of Roll The Stat in which they guess the career WHIPs of AL All-Star pitchers from 1986-1989. If that's something you do regularly anyway, this episode is definitely made for you.

The 2019 calendar year and season can finally be properly wrapped up, as Mark and Andy are back for their third installment of the BBBA Awards. Along with giving their takes on the existing inferior awards (MVP, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young), your hosts give their own recognition to players for accomplishments both good and bad. Among awards that return this year are The Bergen Award, The Tiny Glove, and The Balboni Award, while new additions include the LaMarr Hoyt Award and the Jeff Burroughs Award. The hosts wrap it up with a scintillating version of Roll The Stat by guessing 2019 hitters' career Runs Created. Listen and celebrate the 2019 season in all its holiday glory.

Mark and Andy are back to revamp the stats on the backs of baseball cards. Although they didn't completely do away with traditional stats, there are plenty of more advanced stats that deserve a place among the 14 or so columns shown on the cardboard for both hitters and pitchers. They didn't quite reach consensus yet, but started the conversation and made some definitive choices (sorry, wins and saves) about certain stats. The leaderboards from 2019 were used to give some context to the stats being discussed, and the episode wraps up--as always--with a scintillating round of Roll The Stat. Can you guess pitchers' career K/9? The hosts discover a simple trick for always guessing correctly. Listen to find out!

Mark and Andy are back with your favorite advanced baseball stats podcast after a brief hiatus. The topic this time is Phillies catchers. Your hosts investigate the men who have played the position over the years through the lens of advanced stats. The names range from Darren Daulton to Andy Seminick to more recent luminaries like J. T. Realmuto and Jorge Alfaro. The episode wraps up with a BBBA staple, Roll The Stat. Play along with your hosts and try out your newfound Phillies catchers expertise.

In the final installment of their summer programming, Mark and Andy break down the Mount Rushmores for all five teams in the current National League East. Controversy ensues as the hosts debate, along with listeners and Twitter followers, the legitimacy of candidates and even of the existence of certain teams. Both podcasters have emotional ties to teams from the division, which made the task all the more difficult. Listen and play along in another round of Roll The Stat, in which Mark and Andy guess--*gasp*--batting averages of NL East hitters. It's a fitting cap to a fun series.

Mark and Andy bring you the fifth out of six episodes in their Mount Rushmores series, in which they determine the faces for the teams of the National League West. This may have been the most difficult division to date, as each team presented decisions that could have gone any of several different ways. Ultimately though, there can be only four. As always, we hear from listeners and Twitter followers who help shape the mountainsides with their opinions and wacky takes. Finally, the hosts play a little Roll The Stat, in which they guess career WHIPs for pitchers who played for at least two National League West teams.

Mark and Andy continue their "summer programming" with the next in their series of MLB divisions' Mount Rushmores. This time it's the NL Central, as the 5 current occupants of the division take their turns under the microscope. Twitter followers and podcast listeners chime in with their opinions, comical or serious as they may be, and your hosts sort through it all to illuminate all the faces that could grace the hypothetical mountainside. At the end, play along as Mark and Andy square off in a round of Roll The Stat and guess RBI totals of hitters who played for at least two NL Central franchises.

Mark and Andy wrap up the Mount Rushmores of the American League by naming a top 4 for each team in the American League Central. This episode, just as the previous two, is spiced up with listener submissions and voting. While the listeners' lists are often comical or based on factors other than greatness, the hosts mostly base their lists on the bread-and-butter of the podcast--statistics. Despite the preference for numbers, they do allow a Steve Balboni or two to sneak in here or there. The show wraps up with a rousing rendition of Roll The Stat. Play along and see if Mark continues his recent dominance by using his superior knowledge of AL Central pitchers.

Mark and Andy are joined by the voice of Wax Ecstatic, Matt Sammon, to tackle the daunting task of coming up with a Mount Rushmore for every current American League East team. Matt lends his expertise as a former Rays employee and Blue Jays fan and general baseball guy and Mark and Andy lend their usual takes incorporating stats and stories. The hosts also attempt to stump their guest with a round of Which Was Bigger?, but he dominates like no other. After the lengthy discussions regarding the faces worthy of being carved into a mountainside, Mark and Andy wrap it up with a round of Roll The Stat in which they guess players' career WPAs. Stick around to the end; you won't be disappointed.

The debates about who are the ultimate representatives for the Major League Baseball franchises is sure to be lively and bring up differences in opinions and criteria. Mark and Andy give their takes on who should be carved on the mountainside, taking into account many factors, including of course advanced metrics. This first episode in the series limits the scope to just the current American League West teams. That doesn't stop the episode from clocking in at well over an hour though, as both hosts present their case for their top 4, and time is also given for the opinions of Twitter followers. It's all wrapped up with round of Roll The Stat, in which Mark and Andy guess the number of career shutouts for pitchers who pitched for at least two AL West teams. Enjoy the show and feel free to disagree.

The great Grant McAuley joins Mark and Andy to discuss the spotty history of Braves second basemen. Stories abound for this collection of names, but choosing the best players to man the position in history proved challenging. Most players--from Lemke to Giles to Hornsby--only played the position for a few seasons at most. Did Glenn Hubbard's 1984 Fleer "snake" card make an appearance on the show? If you've listened to any episode, you know the answer to that. McAuley's expertise shines for over an hour of this episode, while your regular hosts do their best to keep up and then show off what they know in an historic round of Roll The Stat.