SABRcast with Rob Neyer

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast features insights and analysis of what’s happening in modern baseball on and off the field, plus compelling interviews with figures from around the game — and music from The Baseball Project.

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Neyer is a longtime baseball writer and editor for ESPN.com, SB Nation, and FoxSports.com. He began his career as a research assistant for groundbreaking baseball author Bill James and later worked for STATS, Inc. He has also written or co-written seven baseball books, including The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (with Bill James), winner of the Sporting News/SABR Baseball Research Award, and most recently Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game, winner of the 2019 CASEY Award.

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Van Schley (Courtesy of the St. Paul Saints)Episode #234: October 2, 2023

This week, our guest is Van Schley, who has been involved as an owner and executive in independent professional baseball for more than 40 years, including the Grays Harbor Loggers (where actor Bill Murray played in 1978), the Texas City Stars, and the Brockton Rox (where Justine Siegal was hired as baseball’s first female professional coach in 2009). In 1987, Schley’s Salt Lake Trappers garnered national attention when they shattered the existing professional baseball record by winning 29 consecutive games. Schley was a co-founder of the Northern League and its initial player personnel director. More than 100 of Schley’s players have signed with major league organizations, including Kevin Millar with the Boston Red Sox. (Photo: Courtesy of the St. Paul Saints.)

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What’s Rob Reading?

Tim Wakefield (Trading Card DB)“Boston’s confidence in Tim Wakefield, Pride of the Red Sox, never wavered”
By Steve Buckley, The Athletic

“Pride of the Red Sox. Perfect. Tim Wakefield, whose death was announced by the team on Sunday, was as much a leader as anyone who ever played for the Red Sox, including that raucous bunch from 2004. He was a leader on the field, and, my oh my oh my,  was he ever a leader in the community. As the longtime honorary chairman of the Red Sox Foundation, he did extensive work over the years with the Jimmy Fund, the fundraising arm of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and built on a presence he had established during his playing days. The roles that Wakefield and his wife Stacy played for the Jimmy Fund are particularly poignant as we mourn his passing. He was the 2010 recipient of the Roberto Clemente Award, presented by MLB to a player who “best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community.”

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Episode #229: Earl Santee (August 28, 2023)

Episode #228: Donna Muscarella (August 21, 2023)

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Episode #222: Alain Usereau (July 10, 2023)

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Episode #207: Emma Baccellieri (March 27, 2023)

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Episode #204: Miles Wolff (March 6, 2023)

Episode #203: Bill Brown (February 27, 2023)

Episode #202: Emma Tiedemann (February 20, 2023)

Episode #201: Clint Hurdle (February 13, 2023)

Episode #200: Lindsay Imber (February 6, 2023)

Episode #199: Jim Joyce (January 30, 2023)

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Episode #197: Mike Capps (January 16, 2023)

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