num_pages: 202
description: Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case.Americas favorite pastime is enduring an assault of new thoughts and ideas. In recent years the sabermetrics and analytics craze has infiltrated Major League Baseballfrom its front offices to dugouts to clubhouses to media covering both inciting a baseball culture war. New phrases like launch angle spin rate and pitch framing have entered the vocabulary often with little real meaning when it comes to how the game is actually played on the field. No more.In State of Play  twelve-year Major League veteran Emmy Awardwinning MLB Network analyst and bestselling author Bill Ripken breaks down these modern statistical methods to explain which ones make sense in the games historical context bringing them together with proven old-school strategies. He simplifies those sabermetric terms hastily added to the baseball lexicon without being fully realized taking new-school confusion out of old-school baseballs tried-and-true common sense. In the end he unites the teachings of each school to show fans of both how to listen to and understand the game as its played today and how it should be played moving forward.From a true baseball lifer and member of baseballs first family State of Play offers a fascinating insiders look at how to reconcile years of historical tradition with the rules and trends of the new millennium. As Ripken sees it: the game inside the game cannot be measured by a spreadsheetbut it can be measured by a qualified crusty baseball man. Play ball.
language: English
title: State of Play: The Old School Guide To New School Baseball
publisher: Diversion Books