Sam Miller joined us to talk about his recent article about evaluating Statcast's new Pop Time metric. Surprising exactly no one, we also talk about Shohei Ohtani, again. And take a look at Robinson Cańo's Hall of Fame candidacy. * 'Pop' science: Your guide to learning a new MLB stat by Sam Miller * Usain Bolt playing baseball by Sam Miller * A big step forward in measuring command by Eno Sarris * CMD from Baseball Prospectus * What Makes a Good Change Up? Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 by Harry Pavlidis

Below is a table showing the comparative ratings of some of the pitchers with the best command scores.

| Command+ | CMD | Name | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | 9 | Kyle Hendricks | | 2 | 19 | Jordan Zimmermann | | 3 | 21 | Alex Wood | | 4 | 10 | Jeremy Hellickson | | 5 | 64 | Masahiro Tanaka | | 6 | 86 | Josh Tomlin * | | 7 | 25 | Aaron Nola | | 8 | 12 | Tyler Mahle | | 9 | 6 | Jacob deGrom | | 10 | 3 | Zack Greinke | | 12 | 4 | Corey Kluber | | 20 | 2 | Marco Gonzales | | 23 | 1 | Kyle Davies | | 53 | 8 | Doug Fister | | 101 | 5 | Marco Estrada | | 122 | 7 | CC Sabathia | | Data pulled a few days apart, 151 total pitchers in COMMAND+ rankings and 130 in CMD | | * Tomlin ranked sixth in CMD in 2017 |

Shohei Ohtani is flexible

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