New Defensive Metric Highlights Cubs Outfield
About this episode
Lance Brozdowski and Alex Cohen discuss a new defensive metric that highlights the performance of the Cubs outfielders and analyze the NL Wild Card race.
On today’s episode, Lance Brozdowski and Alex Cohen discuss a historic week by Pete Crow-Armstrong and Randy Arozarena, plus a new Statcast defensive metric rates all 3 Cubs outfielders in the top half of its leaderboard. Lance and Alex breakdown its importance and why the Cubs overall defense and can make up for pitching struggles. Later in the show, the duo dive into the NL Wild Card race and what the projections say about the last month of the season.
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Hosts: Lance Brozdowski, Alex Cohen
Topics covered
- defensive metrics
- Cubs outfield
- NL Wild Card race
- Statcast
- baseball analysis
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Organizations: Cubs
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