All About Baseball with Byron Copley

George ” Sparky” Anderson managed the Cincinnati Reds (1970-1978) and the Detroit Tigers (1979-1996) his way. Though Sparky was not a fan of the math- and probability-driven savants that introduced new metrics and measures of a team’s and ballplayer’s performance, his approach to on-field strategy aligns quite neatly to the principles that men like Bill James and his successo...

Call this episode the “sequel” to “Swings and Misses,” which posted on August 20, 2026. After an innocent post on X, in which I merely noted that Pete Crow-Armstrong had 151 strikeouts (currently 161) to go with his 30 home runs, the response to that accurate statistic was less-than-charitable. It gave me reason to investigate the hypothetical: what if Crow-Armstrong and othe...

That’s the question that this podcast answers. Virtually non-existent before the MLB baseball strike of 1994, the walk-up song was ubiquitous by the end of the 1990s. Yet, its origins can be traced to the woman who accepted the job as the organist for the Chicago White Sox in 1970. Listen in as we explore the evolution of the walk-up song from a happy accident to part of the ...

Admittedly, there are many good (read: power) hitters in MLB who strike out too much, and at rates significantly higher than 20 years ago. This episode of All About Baseball looks at this phenomenon and offers some basic, fundamental observations as to how these elite hitters could minimize their strike outs and, as a result, generate more runs for their teams.

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What do I mean by this? A post on X featured 30 “young” fans — one from each MLB team — who, in my opinion, lack a fundamental understanding of what it takes to play in the major leagues for decades. Each of them selects a player who, in their opinion, is “overrated” and the vast majority of them they name are among the best who ever played the game. The players that they nam...