Has anyone listened to The Edge podcast by Ben Reiter?

Just curious what everyone's thoughts were. Bit of a rant here, apologies in advance. I'm part-way through episode 4, and although it's been relatively balanced (more than most other things I've read or listened to about sign-stealing), I have been frustrated by the lack of perspective a few times–perspective I'd hoped we'd get from an investigation which he says took him most of 2020.

For instance, the first episode focuses on Mike Bolsinger and heavily implies that his conclusion (that his career was ended by the Astros' cheating) is correct. Reiter doesn't really rebut that conclusion or give other plausible explanations, such as the fact that Bolsinger had a career 4.92 ERA and a 6.83 ERA the previous year.

He also talks to Chase Utley who, for his part, cannot say that the Astros stole the World Series away from the Dodgers. However, the conversation focuses on Yu Darvish, and Utley implied the Astros might have been stealing signs in game 7. But game 7 was in LA, and there has never been any evidence or even suggestion that the Astros ever stole signs during away games. In fact, much of the "evidence" of the Astros success is their home and away playoff splits in 2017.

Which brings me to my last point. So far, there has been no discussion at all about whether the trash can banging scheme was actually helpful to the Astros. That may change (again, I'm part-way through ep. 4 of 6), but so far it has just been taken as a given that the scheme was beneficial and helped the Astros hitters. From what we've seen, however, it may not have been (see the LA Times article), and I hoped there would at least be some discussion of that. Maybe there will be over the last 2.5 episodes.

Maybe it's naive to expect anything else or hope for a bit of nuance. What do y'all think?

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