SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Hannah Keyser (Episode #35)

Baseball fans, tune in this season to SABRcast with Rob Neyer, a new weekly podcast hosted by award-winning author and longtime SABR member Rob Neyer. SABRcast will feature 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 this year’s CASEY Award.

 

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Episode #35: November 25, 2019

Our guest this week is Hannah Keyser, a writer and reporter with Yahoo! Sports. She has covered sports and food for Major League Baseball, Deadspin, and Vice. She lives in New York, after growing up outside of Philly and getting an ancient history degree from the University of Pennsylvania that almost never comes up in her current line of work. She also appeared on SABRcast in June 2019 for Episode #13.

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What’s Rob reading this week?

United States Capitol

“Dueling Letters Highlight Dramatic Differences Between MLB, MiLB On Elimination”
By J.J. Cooper, Baseball America

“When Baseball America first explained in detail Major League Baseball’s proposal to dramatically change the shape of Minor League Baseball, one underlying question from people in that industry kept popping up: Are these guys for real? MLB’s proposal was significant. It would completely rework the minor leagues in a way that hasn’t been done in roughly a half a century, if not more. Cities that have had affiliated Minor League Baseball for a century would see their teams eliminated. What everyone in MiLB wanted to know was: Was the proposal a dramatic initial negotiating ploy or was it a serious proposal?”

 


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