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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Jeff Bower and Mark Armour at the gravesite of Mel Ott in Louisiana on their 2011 "Baseball Boondoggle" trip.Episode #249: January 15, 2024

This week, Rob is joined by fellow SABR members Mark Armour and Jeff Bower. The trio of friends discuss their “Baseball Boondoggle” adventures tied to trips to the annual SABR convention. From introducing Rob to new food, to a basement tour of the Hall of Fame, to stumbling on a celebration of Cy Young, the stories abound between these three.

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What’s Rob Reading?

Baseball And The Algorithm: A parable of modern life

“Baseball And The Algorithm”
By Sam Miller, Pebble Hunting

“The MLB YouTube channel has posted 291,289 videos. If you had to guess what happens in the video with the very most views, what would you say? If this helps: The second-most-viewed video is called “Muscular Fan Struggles With Water Bottle.” If I had had to guess what the no. 1 video is, I’d have probably guessed either “The Steve Bartman incident” or “Robin Ventura, Nolan Ryan duke it out,” but those are merely 85th (with 3.1 million views) and 24th (with 7.3 million), respectively. If I had to guess again, I’d have guessed “2008 WS Gm 3: Taylor Swift sings the national anthem,” but that’s just 393rd, with 1.1 million views. Clearly, I’m not thinking big enough. What’s 27 times more popular than Taylor Swift singing?”

Archived Episodes

Episode #248: Authors Roundtable: Steve Steinberg, Don Zminda, Mitchell Nathanson (January 8, 2024)

Episode #247: Andy Andres (January 2, 2024)

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