The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking Audiobook (Free)

Using its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It’s a thinking game. It is also a shifting game. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the statistical revolution which has swept through the pastime lately, getting metrics like WAR, OPS, and BABIP into entrance offices and living spaces alike.

So what’s on the horizon for a game that is constantly evolving? Situated about The Change: The Next Evolution in Football Thinking on the crossroads of sabermetrics and cognitive technology, The Shift alters the trajectory of both traditional and analytics-based baseball thought. With a history in clinical mindset as well as encounter in major league front offices, Baseball Prospectus’s Russell Carleton illuminates advanced figures and challenges social assumptions, demonstrating along the way that data and reasoning need not end up being at odds using the human components of baseball-in truth, they’re inextricably intertwined.

Covering topics which range from infield shifts to paradigm shifts, Carleton writes with verve, honesty, and an engaging style, inviting those who love the game to examine it all deeply and maybe just a little differently.