Author interview: Ben Jedlovec

March 14, 2012

The co-author (with Jown Dewan) of The Fielding Bible–Volume III was a guest on the March 13 podcast of ESPN’s Baseball Today program. Defense has become an increasingly studied field (no pun intended), with metrics well beyond the PO-A-PCT. variety.

Several years ago I did some game reporting to STATS and it was a very fine line — at least to this spatially challenged writer — to determine exactly where the balls were hit, etc. In fact, if a lot of reporters were like me, you can just throw out all that information, or at least look at it with a raised eyebrow (or two).

You hear the interview here; it comes in about about the 22-minute mark.

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