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Welcome to the first episode in the new season of Between the Lines!
It's playoff time in Major League Baseball and Ben Reiter is back on Between the Lines to talk about Astroball: The New Way to Win it All.
Astroball is the story of how the Houston Astros went from one of the worst teams in the history of the sport - nicknamed The Disastros - to a dynastic, long-term winning machine with an analysis, recruitment and development strategy that is the envy of decision makers in international pro sports. Like the Astros themselves, Ben's book focuses on both the human stories behind a superstar team and the new seams opened up in the sports-data revolution.
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