SABRcast with Rob Neyer: Meg Rowley (Episode #7)
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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 #7: May 13, 2019
Our guest this week is Meg Rowley, the managing editor of FanGraphs and The Hardball Times, on the craft of baseball writing. Meg won a SABR Analytics Conference Research Award in 2017 for her article on “Let Ballparks Get Old” and she co-hosts the Effectively Wild podcast and the FanGraphs Audio podcast, as well.
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What’s Rob reading this week?
“Batters Are Getting Plunked At Historic Rates. But Why?”
By Michael Salfino, FiveThirtyEight
It’s never been more dangerous to be a major league hitter. Through Thursday’s games, batters had been plunked by pitchers 457 times, struck with a fast-moving projectile made of cowhide and densely wound yarn. Considering that MLB pitchers are throwing harder than at any time in recorded history, it’s safe to assume that getting hit by a baseball has never stung worse. The current rate of 0.41 batters hit by a pitch per team game is the highest since 1900.
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