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All About Baseball with Byron Copley

A podcast where baseball is the main character, a supporting player, or a silent partner. The possibilities are vast and varied.

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12:33

MLB Should Be All Out of Gambling

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/11/13

With the recent indictments of Cleveland Guardians' pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luiz Ortiz, for throwing baseballs in the dirt to win bets for their partners, it appears that MLB is doing all it can to sweep this situation under the rug by taking the tepid measure of limiting the amount of money someone can make on prop bets like this to $200. But, with FanDuel as an important sponsor, MLB would rather make half-measures like this instead of eliminating the very possibility of making these bets at

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12:43

post hoc ergo prompter hoc

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/11/06

This Latin phrase, translated to In English, means "after, therefore because of it." This fallacy in logic is all too often applied to the outcome of sporting events . It's been never more prevalent than in the circumstances of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 2025 World Series where Isiah Kiner-Falefa was forced out at home by a literal inch, denying the Blue Jays what would have been the winning run and a World Series championship. This podcast reminds us that asking "what if"

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14:57

Do Major League Baseball Owners Really Get What They...

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/10/30

Not always. In this podcast, I identify two different 2025 "all-star" lineups by position -- one is stocked with underpaid players and the other with overpaid players. The point: demonstrate that owners are compensating many players based on past achievements and future promise instead of present performance, which is all that really matters. That owners, as explained by the Peter Brand character in the movie "Moneyball" are still "misjudging their players." Using the advance metric of Weighted Run

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10:06

Calling it Quits as an Umpire

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/10/23

After 20-plus years of umpiring youth baseball, I'm calling it quits as suddenly as I entered the "profession" when I volunteered to umpire my son's ball game because the assigned umpire didn't show. This brief podcast explains my reasons why I made an on-the-field decision to walk away.bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Parkin

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15:57

Big Little-League Mistakes

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/10/16

On October 10, 2025, the Seattle Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of the American League Divisional Series (ALDS), in part because the Tigers committed two critical "little-league" mistakes that should never happen at the Major-League level. Both occurred on the base paths, with due credit given to Mariners' first-baseman Josh Naylor's fearlessness and with substantial scorn directed at Tigers' third-baseman Zach McKinstry's

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18:02

Dick Bartell Held on to the Baseball

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/10/09

In Game 7 of the 1940 World Series, in the seventh inning with the Detroit Tigers clinging onto a tenuous 1-0 lead, Tiger shortstop Dick Bartell inexplicably held the baseball in his right hand as Reds' first baseman Frank McCormick sauntered home with the tying run. The Reds went on to win the game, 2-1. This podcast recounts that moment and chalks it up to human fallibility, which is what makes us human in the first place. bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Link to

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11:55

The 97-Win Threshold is not as Easy as it Appears

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/10/02

Winning 97 games in an MLB season "only" requires any team to win three of every five games. This podcast, influenced by a similar observation that I saw online, asked the question "is it really that easy?" The answer: No. It's actually rather difficult, as it should be at the MLB level. In fact, the fewer teams that win 90-plus games in a given season indicates a more competitively balanced league.bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin

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7:10

Replay: The Honorable Sacrifice of Jack T. Jamison

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/09/29

Occasionally, I will replay posts that I think bear a second listen (or a first if it was missed). “Jack T. Jamison” (not his real name) is one of 4,486 Major League Baseball players who never got to make a 10th plate appearance. The story as to why is the the subject of this podcast, the details of which were related to me by two of my cousins. “Jack T. Jamison” is their great uncle, who played for a National League team somewhere between the years of

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15:45

Data is too Dated to Remember

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/09/22

The deluge of data that is delivered to viewers and spectators during a given MLB game, whether in person, on television, or even in a radio broadcast, renders the actual events on the field as specimens to examine rather than feats to admire. In regards to baseball, less data is "more appreciation" for the game itself. This podcast ruminates on the true nature of baseball. And real-time data has no place, in my opinion, in the booth or on any

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12:45

A Collapse of Epic Proportions (Reprise)

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/09/17

What a difference a week makes. On September 8, the Tigers were 9.5 games ahead of Kansas City. Now, the 2025 Detroit Tigers, as of this day, are in the EXACT same position as the 1964 Philadelphia Phillies -- 5.5 games in first place with 11 games to play, and they lost the National League pennant to the Cardinals. The present second-place team is the red-hot Cleveland Guardians. This podcast measures the Tigers' chances of maintaining its precarious hold on first place and also presents a case as

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8:17

Yankees’ Tribute to Charlie Kirk

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/09/12

The New York Yankees offered a moment of silence on September 10, 2025, prior to its game against the Detroit Tigers, to recognize the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which had occurred earlier that day. This podcast supports that decision as a gesture to a person who was only attempting to exercise his right -- and that of those with whom he disagreed -- of free speech and discourse.byroncopley@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Link to article on Heavy.com

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9:42

A Collapse of Epic Proportions

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/09/08

Prior to the game of Friday, September 5, 2025, the Detroit Tigers held a 9.5 game lead over the second-place Kansas City Royals in the American League Central. Only a total collapse that would have to even be more catastrophic than the Tigers' losing 12 of 13 game from July 9 to July 26 could allow the Royals to catch the Tigers. So, this podcast is a preventative measure that reviews the collapse of the Philadelphia Phillies in 1964, when the bottom dropped out of the tub in the final ten games of

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14:07

The Balkanization of Major League Baseball

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/09/01

Rob Manfred is at it again. He wants to expand MLB to 32 teams and organize them in divisions based solely on geographic proximity and dissolve the American and National leagues. His rationale is thin in substance and thick in deception. I think that this is merely about making the TV package negotiations in progress more lucrative for the prospective provider of MLB streaming and TV coverage. Also, I offer a somewhat novel wrinkle to the post season that rewards the all best teams who deserve a

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12:44

What is the Catcher’s Balk? Answer: It Doesn’t Exist

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/08/25

A listener-request inspired me to dig into the mystery of the so-called "catcher's balk," a term commonly used, but found nowhere in the rule book. Naturally, my investigation lead me into a discussion about the time-space continuum, which, unlike the "catcher's balk," definitely does exist. bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin

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15:12

Replay: The Perfect One-Hit Game

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/08/20

Now that this podcast is approaching 100 episodes, with no intention of slowing down, I'm going to start working in past episodes from time to time. This one is one of my favorites to date, and bears a second listen -- or a first if you have never heard it.bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin

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11:25

The Job of an Umpire is to Remain Anonymous

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/08/15

This rather clumsy podcast title was born out of the emergence of Jen Powol, the first woman to ever umpire a Major League baseball game in the regular season. The historical significance of this event would be better served if everyone dismissed her gender and acknowledged that measuring her performance at the same standards of her male peers, without bias in either direction, is what really matters. The best umpires are rarely, if ever, noticed, and the best compliment to Jen Powol would be to

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15:29

The Little League World Series Baseball Field Needs...

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/08/10

The current size of the Little League World Series Baseball field, which features a 46-foot pitching distance from home plate, 60-foot bases, and 225-foot fences, is limiting the development of the 12-year-olds who compete every summer for the LLWS Championship as well as many plays that baseball at the Little League level would offer on a larger field. This podcast identifies specific plays and situations that this small field adversely affects or eliminates altogether, to the detriment of the

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17:25

Microbetting is a Huge Problem in Major League Baseball

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/08/03

Are the scandals involving Cleveland Guardians' pitchers Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase, who suspiciously threw several pitches well out of the strike zone with the identical count of 0-0 on the leadoff hitter in the inning the result of satisfying bets for their own benefit? This podcast does not answer that question. Instead, it offers a simple solution for rendering these incidents as moot: ban legal gambling from the landscape of Major League Baseball, after "scraping to the bottom of the kettle"

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15:20

Blasting Caps, Potato Chips, and Shakespeare

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/07/28

Baseball testimonials and endorsements are as old as the game itself. What used to make the good ones valuable and relevant to me was that the ballplayers featured didn't have to act: they could just be themselves. In this podcast, I offer several examples of what I consider as authentic commercials that featured Detroit Tigers Jim Northrup, Al Kaline and Willie Horton, Los Angeles Dodger Don Drysdale, and San Francisco Giant Willie Mays. However, Pete Rose comes off to me as insincere and

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17:54

In Memoriam: Stuart Mitchell Copley, January 4, 1989...

All About Baseball with Byron Copley ·

2025/07/22

Our precious son, Stuart, died on June 27, 2025. I thought it fitting to share this tragic event with this audience to offer tribute to Stuart and relate a few memorable experiences he had as a ballplayer during his youth, and to also share a few lessons learned because of this tragedy.bcpodcastbaseball@gmail.com www.byroncopley.com Music: "Field Grass," by Sergei Pavkin https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/charlotte-nc/stuart-copley-12439611

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