The statcast podcast is purely about baseball from a statistical point of view, introducing new players who are performing beyond expectations, veterans who have been under performing, and everything in between. There are many ways they go about analyzing players, teams, and the organizations as a whole, but sometimes they even tell short stories about a players career that can make you feel closer to a player and his journey becoming a professional. The combination of pure statistics lightened by short stories of a players life creates a mix that’s entertaining to listen to being a fan.
This podcast is intended for baseball fans who want too consistently updates themselves on who are the newest starts of the game and forgotten gems who could surprise in the near future. A pair of host talk to each other in an unscripted manner but do have a scripted layout of their topics. Considering this podcast is owned by MLB there are little to none advertisements, but any advertisements are of MLB.
Statcast podcast is distributed via apple podcast or on their website. The popularity isn’t very high considering it’s targeting only baseball fans and more specifically baseball fans into statistics of the game. No waves have been made outside of the baseball world but within the effects have been positive, specifically baseball twitter.
Since each episode is very similar in the use of statistics and forecasting of future performances, any latest episode would be a good start. The reason is because the hosts do a great job of consistently making the information easy to understand and always have new information ready to make you consider statistics differently.