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

Dr. Lawrence Rocks (THE TOPPS COMPANY)Episode #99: February 22, 2021

This week’s guest is Dr. Lawrence Rocks, a renowned analytical and theoretical chemist who recently worked with Paul DeJong of the St. Louis Cardinals to study the effect of heat on a baseball and to promote Project #WeatherStationMoon to combat climate change. Their work was featured on a Topps Now baseball card in January 2021. Dr. Rocks is the author of The Energy Crisis in 1972 and he was influential in the creation of the US Department of Energy. He received his master’s degree in chemistry from Purdue University and his doctorate from Technische Hochschule Vienna in Austria.

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What’s Rob Reading?

The Inside Pitch and More, by Gene A. BudigThe Inside Pitch And More: Baseball’s Business and the Public Trust
By Gene A. Budig

Written by former American League President Gene Budig, The Inside Pitch and More investigates the human and corporate sides of our nation’s pastime. Throughout the course of this book, the author systematically engages the myriad concerns of Major League Baseball, past, present, and future..

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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)