Major League Baseball
also referred to as: mlb
includes Major League Baseball World Series
33 statements across 5 episodes · 12 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 13, 2018 by Ben Reiter · said 76 times in 26 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Ben Reiter (23), Ted Seides (21), Michael Schwimer (8), Paul Rabil (4), Ian Charles (4), Michael Mauboussin (3), Alex Rodriguez (3), Finny Kuruvilla (2)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2023 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Chad Hutchinson – Professional Athlete to Professional Investor in Sports (EP.351)
- Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- Ted Martell – Empty Rooms: Commercial Real Estate Non-Performing Loans in NYC at Maverick Real Estate (EP.349)
- Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- Michael Carmen – Late-Stage Private Investing at Wellington (EP.332)
- Coach Paul Assaiante – Leading People to Greatness (Capital Allocators, EP.307)
- David Abrams – Sports Ecosystem Investing at Velocity (Capital Allocators, EP. 303)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2020 27 mentions in 2 episodes 14 per episode
2019 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2018 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Major League Baseball, oldest first
Aug 13, 2018 positive
Aug 13, 2018 neutral
Reiter: MLB team standings often invert over three-year windows
“Three years down the line, which is actually a long time in baseball terms, it doesn't sound like a long time, but often if you look at the schedule, at the standings from like three years ago, they're almost upside down from where they are today.”
Aug 13, 2018 positive
Ben Reiter: Reports of baseball's business demise are exaggerated
“I'm somebody who thinks that reports of baseball's demise are kind of exaggerated. It is a different sort of business from the NFL and the NBA to which it's always compared. It's a much more local business. It's much more like steady business. You know, it's o…”
Aug 13, 2018 neutral
Aug 13, 2018 neutral
The competitive advantage of pure data analysis in baseball is narrowing
“I think the data advantage is narrowing.
I do.
I mean, you don't hear very much anymore about, oh, this team's onto some new kind of way of analyzing data or discovered some new sorts of data.
Of course, I'm not going to tell you if they are, but it doesn't…”
Oct 15, 2018 bullish
Oct 15, 2018
Oct 15, 2018 positive
Oct 15, 2018
Schwimer: Process Metrics Predict MLB Success Better Than Standard Moneyball Statistics
“The basic money ball stuff, exactly. And it really didn't matter in the minor leagues in terms of predicting major league success. And what I had to, the lesson I had to learn was it's not, the results are not predictive to future results. It's actually the pr…”
Oct 15, 2018 positive
Sep 16, 2019 positive
Big League Advance saw 38 of 77 Fund I players reach MLB
“Our first fund of 77 players, and keep in mind, remember, you have less than a 10% chance to make the major leagues if you're throwing a dart in the minor leagues, and we don't get first round picks. So the players that we go after, these non top 300 prospects…”
Sep 16, 2019 bullish
Sep 16, 2019 bullish
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
MLB investigators could not prove GM Jeff Luhnow knew of cheating
“Major League Baseball, as I said, did an extensive investigation into this. Even they couldn't prove that Jeff Luno knew. You know, they looked at tens of thousands of emails and texts and They interviewed, like, dozens and dozens of witnesses, many of whom pr…”
Nov 30, 2020 negative
Extreme analytical efficiency makes modern baseball an aesthetically stagnant product
“The most perfect, efficient base version of baseball means nothing happens, essentially. As you say, it's a lot of strikeouts. Hitters sell out to hit home runs. Fielders shift so that when hitters don't hit home runs, they'll be in perfect position to catch t…”
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
Nov 30, 2020
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
Nov 30, 2020 bearish
Jeff Luhnow faces a harder path back to MLB than fired managers
“Jeff Luno, I think, will have a tougher road. Well, especially now that he's suing the Astros for twenty-two million dollars. That probably doesn't help his chances, but he was always somebody who never quite shed his outsider status. In a lot of ways, he embr…”
Nov 30, 2020 negative
MLB revenue sharing and rising valuations disincentivize teams from winning
“Winning is, in baseball in particular, kind of less incentivized than you would think. So there's plenty of teams out there who don't seem to be trying to win very hard. They'll do anyway because of the revenue sharing structure, because of just the fact that …”
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
MLB playoff share voting incentivized low-paid video staff to facilitate cheating
“The players were also responsible for voting on who else got a cut of these playoff shares, which non-players. And those could include people like the guys who worked in the video room who were helping the players out all year. And these are guys who make 50,0…”
Nov 30, 2020 positive
MLB commissioner will likely introduce major rule changes to increase action
“I do think, especially because it's at the end of the day, it's an entertainment product. I do think we'll see the commissioner trying to make some significant rule changes. Maybe it's to the strike zone. Maybe it's moving the mound back. To get more offense i…”
Nov 30, 2020 negative
MLB contradicted its ethical stance by rushing Steve Cohen's ownership approval
“Baseball having just gotten through this huge ethical scandal. We've cleaned up the game. We've kicked Jeff Luno out for a year. We've kicked the manager out. We really care about ethics. And then they turn around and they rush through the approval process. A …”
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
MLB commissioner acts as an executive beholden to team owners
“A lot of people think of the commissioner as this almost like judge like figure presiding over the game, looking out for the good of the sport above all else, like a steward. That's not what he is. I mean, Rob Manfred has even described himself as almost a CEO…”
Nov 30, 2020 bearish
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
Nov 30, 2020 neutral
Dec 6, 2021 positive
Major sports leagues recently locked in media rights for 12 years
“For us, a big part of that risk has been taken out of the system for the next seven to 12 years because Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the NFL, and a couple of the European soccer leagues have all repriced their national and internation…”
Dec 6, 2021 positive
Dec 6, 2021