SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Meredith Wills and Rob Arthur (Episode #4)
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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.
Episode #4: April 22, 2019
Our guests this week are Meredith Wills, whose articles for The Athletic on changes to the composition of the baseball have helped explain MLB’s recent home-run surge; and Rob Arthur of Baseball Prospectus, who notes that the “rabbit ball” is causing home runs to skyrocket in Triple-A games this season, as well. Meredith also talks about her original baseball scorebook and her baseball-inspired Etsy designs at Mudville Nine.
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What’s Rob reading this week?
SABR Baseball Research Journal, Spring 2019
SABR’s flagship publication, the Baseball Research Journal, covers a wide range of topics on baseball scholarship, including analysis of Shoeless Joe Jackson’s ever-changing testimony in regards to the Black Sox Scandal, New York’s baseball rivalry on and off the field, a study of MLB’s replay review system, and gender and race in postwar American baseball. Click here to read more articles online from the BRJ.
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