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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Current Episode

Episode #134: October 25, 2021

This week’s guest is Tim Hagerty, broadcaster for the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas since 2014. He has called professional baseball games for nearly two decades, previously working for the Padres’ Triple-A affiliate in Tucson and Portland, as well as for lower-level teams in Idaho Falls and Mobile. He is the author of one baseball book, Root for the Home Team, and numerous articles for SABR, The Sporting News, The Hardball Times, and other publications. Find more of his work at timhagerty.com.

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What’s Rob Reading?

“In the World Series, Hank Aaron’s Protégé Faces His Former Team”
By Tyler Kepner, New York Times

“[Henry] Aaron was 33 years old and on his way to breaking Babe Ruth’s career home run record. When Aaron did it, with homer No. 715 in 1974, Christine Baker’s son was in the on-deck circle at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. It was a case, you might say, of slugger knows best.

“I prayed not to go to the Braves,” [Dusty] Baker said on Sunday, in the dugout at Minute Maid Park, where his Houston Astros will host Atlanta in the World Series opener on Tuesday. “There were freedom marches, riots, segregation, anti-Vietnam, anti-short-hair — I mean, there was a lot of turmoil, and all the Braves’ teams were in the South. The deep, deep, Deep South. But that was the best thing to ever happen to me, because I wouldn’t have met Hank Aaron.”

Also reading: Jenifer Langosch: Marmol finds calling bringing game to foreign land (MLB.com)
Read more: Click here to check out Rob’s full list of book recommendations on Goodreads.com

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2021

Episode #133: Rich Burk (October 18, 2021)

Episode #132: Joe Sheehan (October 11, 2021)

Episode #131: Tony Castro (October 4, 2021)

Episode #130: Joe Posnanski (September 27, 2021)

Episode #129: Ellen Adair and Eric Gilde (September 20, 2021)

Episode #128: Dan Evans (September 13, 2021)

Episode #127: Rob Friedman (September 6, 2021)

Episode #126: Josée Tellier (August 30, 2021)

Episode #125: Dave Parker and Dave Jordan (August 23, 2021)

Episode #124: Jerry Blevins (August 16, 2021)

Episode #123: Ken Levine (August 9, 2021)

Episode #122: David Nemec (August 2, 2021)

Episode #121: Todd Radom (July 26, 2021)

Episode #120: Steve Rushin (July 19, 2021)

Episode #119: Hannah Keyser (July 12, 2021)

Episode #118: Alan Zweibel (July 6, 2021)

Episode #117: Emma Baccellieri (June 28, 2021)

Episode #116: Sean Forman (June 21, 2021)

Episode #115: Gary Bedingfield (June 14, 2021)

Episode #114: Gar Ryness (June 7, 2021)

Episode #113: Mike Cieslinski (May 31, 2021)

Episode #112: Rowan Ricardo Phillips (May 24, 2021)

Episode #111: Tom Shieber (May 17, 2021)

Episode #110: Will Leitch (May 10, 2021)

Episode #109: Daniel Jacob Horine (May 3, 2021)

Episode #108: Dan Epstein (April 26, 2021)

Episode #107: Victor Rojas (April 19, 2021)

Episode #106: Felipe Alou and Peter Kerasotis (April 12, 2021)

Episode #105: Lauren Meyer (April 5, 2021)

Episode #104: Tom House (March 29, 2021)

Episode #103: Tony Adams and Bradford William Davis (March 22, 2021)

Episode #102: Amanda Smith (March 15, 2021)

Episode #101: Adam Richman (March 8, 2021)

Episode #100: Brandon McCarthy (March 1, 2021)

Episode #99: Lawrence Rocks (February 22, 2021)

Episode #98: Hannah Keyser (February 15, 2021)

Episode #97: Marty Appel (February 8, 2021)

Episode #96: Susan Slusser (February 1, 2021)

Episode #95: C. Trent Rosecrans (January 25, 2021)

Episode #94: Chris Welsh (January 18, 2021)

Episode #93: Jason Turbow (January 11, 2021)

Episode #92: John Shea (January 4, 2021)

2020

Episode #91: Gary Ashwill (December 21, 2020)

Episode #90: Scott Bush (December 14, 2020)

Episode #89: Dan Shulman (December 7, 2020)

Episode #88: Mark Armour (November 30, 2020)

Episode #87: Daniel Okrent (November 23, 2020)

Episode #86: Scott Simkus (November 16, 2020)

Episode #85: Chris Dial (November 9, 2020)

Episode #84: Jeff Idelson and Jean Fruth (November 2, 2020)

Episode #83: Jon “Boog” Sciambi (October 26, 2020)

Episode #82: Sean Gibson (October 19, 2020)

Episode #81: Scott McCaughey (October 12, 2020)

Episode #80: Josh Schaub (October 5, 2020)

Episode #79: Bill Henderson (September 28, 2020)

Episode #78: Anika Orrock (September 21, 2020)

Episode #77: Eric Nusbaum (September 14, 2020)

Episode #76: Howard Bryant (September 7, 2020)

Episode #75: Ellen Adair (August 31, 2020)

Episode #74: Kat Williams (August 24, 2020)

Episode #73: Michael Schur (August 17, 2020)

Episode #72: J.J. Cooper (August 10, 2020)

Episode #71: Jon Pessah (August 3, 2020)

Episode #70: Brian Kenny (July 27, 2020)

Episode #69: Steve Goody and Seth Daniels (July 20, 2020)

Episode #68: Rob Fitts (July 13, 2020)

Episode #67: Bill Nowlin (July 6, 2020)

Episode #66: Greg Proops (June 29, 2020)

Episode #65: David Nemec (June 22, 2020)

Episode #64: Bob Kendrick (June 15, 2020)

Episode #63: Hannah Keyser (June 8, 2020)

Episode #62: Gabe Kapler (June 1, 2020)

Episode #61: Ball Four panel with Mitchell Nathanson and Mark Armour (May 25, 2020)

Episode #60: Doug Glanville (May 18, 2020)

Episode #59: Josh Lewin (May 11, 2020)

Episode #58: Fred Claire (May 4, 2020)

Episode #57: Jason Benetti (April 27, 2020)

Episode #56: Kyle Boddy (April 20, 2020)

Episode #55: Len Kasper (April 13, 2020)

Episode #54: Jon Sciambi (April 6, 2020)

Episode #53: Joan Ryan (March 30, 2020)

Episode #52: Jason Turbow (March 23, 2020)

Episode #51: John Dewan (March 16, 2020)

Episode #50: Bob Costas (March 9, 2020)

Episode #49: Rob Nelson (March 2, 2020)

Episode #48: Todd Radom (February 24, 2020)

Episode #47: Bill Ripken (February 17, 2020)

Episode #46: Mark Rucker (February 10, 2020)

Episode #45: Don Zminda (February 3, 2020)

Episode #44: Alyson Footer (January 27, 2020)

Episode #43: Jacob Pomrenke, Jason Turbow, Joe Sheehan (January 20, 2020)

Episode #42: Joe Posnanski (January 13, 2020)

Episode #41: Mark Armour (January 6, 2020)

2019

Episode #40: Leslie Heaphy (December 30, 2019)

Episode #39: Craig Wright (December 23, 2019)

Episode #38: F.X. Flinn (December 16, 2019)

Episode #37: Paul Lukas (December 9, 2019)

Episode #36: John Thorn (December 2, 2019)

Episode #35: Hannah Keyser (November 25, 2019)

Episode #34: Jason Schwartz (November 18, 2019)

Episode #33: Tyrone Brooks (November 11, 2019)

Episode #32: Justin McGuire (November 4, 2019)

Episode #31: Joe Sheehan (October 28, 2019)

Episode #30: Derrick Goold (October 21, 2019)

Episode #29: Dwight Jaynes (October 14, 2019)

Episode #28: Ben Mankiewicz (October 7, 2019)

Episode #27: C.J. Nitkowski (September 30, 2019)

Episode #26: Jane Leavy (September 23, 2019)

Episode #25: Steve Hofstetter (September 16, 2019)

Episode #24: Jacob Pomrenke (September 9, 2019)

Episode #23: Ricky Cobb (September 2, 2019)

Episode #22: J.J. Cooper (August 26, 2019)

Episode #21: Aviva Kempner (August 19, 2019)

Episode #20: Paul Dickson (August 12, 2019)

Episode #19: Joe Lemire (August 5, 2019)

Episode #18: Sean Forman (July 29, 2019)

Episode #17: Janet Marie Smith (July 22, 2019)

Episode #16: David W. Smith (July 15, 2019)

Episode #15: Bud Selig (July 8, 2019)

Episode #14: Randy Jones and Mark Sweeney (July 1, 2019)

Episode #13: Hannah Keyser (June 24, 2019)

Episode #12: Scott Bush (June 17, 2019)

Episode #11: Jerry Cohen (June 10, 2019)

Episode #10: Paul Goldberger (June 3, 2019)

Episode #9: Ben Lindbergh (May 27, 2019)

Episode #8: David Cone (May 20, 2019)

Episode #7: Meg Rowley (May 13, 2019)

Episode #6: Jon “Boog” Sciambi (May 6, 2019)

Episode #5: Mark Armour (April 29, 2019)

Episode #4: Meredith Wills and Rob Arthur (April 22, 2019)

Episode #3: Art Chou and Dr. Steven Cadavid (April 15, 2019)

Episode #2: Tyler Kepner (April 8, 2019)

Episode #1: Brian Kenny and Scott Bush (April 1, 2019)

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