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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