For baseball fans, it's the ultimate fantasy: picking the roster, setting the lineup, deciding on strategies--all with real players in a real ballpark.
That's what baseball analysts and stats crunchers Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do for one full season when a minor league team in California offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. For Lindbergh and Miller, both baseball writers and hosts of , the daily podcast, it was a dream come true that put their statistical theories to the ultimate test.
Ben Lindbergh joins us this afternoon to talk about their new book, .