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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Episode #183: October 10, 2022

Tyler KepnerThis week’s guest is Tyler Kepner, New York Times national baseball writer and author of The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series. He is also the author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches. He started his career as a teenager, interviewing players for a homemade magazine in the early 1990s. He attended Vanderbilt University on the Grantland Rice/Fred Russell sports writing scholarship, then covered the Angels for the Riverside Press-Enterprise and the Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He joined the New York Times in 2000, covering the Mets for two seasons, the Yankees for eight, and serving as the national baseball writer since 2010. He was a guest on SABRcast #157 in April 2022.

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What’s Rob Reading?

Shohei Ohtani (MLB.COM)

” The WAR Over Ohtani’s Value”
By Russell A. Carleton, Baseball Prospectus

“Everyone understands that Shohei Ohtani is something special, at once being one of the best power hitters in the game while at the same time acquitting himself just fine as a Major League starting pitcher for the Los Angeles, California Angels of Anaheim, California, which is near Los Angeles in California. There have been players who have played two ways. In fact, Michael Lorenzen of the Cincinnati Reds has played a few games in the outfield in addition to pitching relief. But for the most part, two-way players have been good at one half of the game and barely adequate at the other. In that sense, Ohtani is a marvel and has quickly become the go-to answer for just about any baseball hypothetical that could double as the plot for a sci-fi movie. It’s now a race for second place to see which player I would clone 26 times. Ohtani is breaking barriers and will probably break the arbitration system (how do you even find a recent comp for a player who did … this?) But does Shohei Ohtani break WAR?”

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