There’s an awful lot of downtime in baseball, and the nature of the sport leads to long stretches where viewers generally chitchat about things not directly related to the action of the game. In the 2018 season, one of these examples stood out to me the most, as The Athletic’s beat writer Marc Carig engaged in a debate about the relative value of a Yankees’ broadcaster:
Career OPS+ 132, though from 75-79 he had an OPS+ of 152. Where did that rank in the AL during that span?
The answer: 1st.
Just ahead of a couple randos named Rod Carew and Reggie Jackson.