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Honoring Women's History Month: Chelsea Janes, Andrea Arcidipane, Sarah Thompson

Honoring Women's History Month: Chelsea Janes, Andrea Arcidipane, Sarah Thompson

FromThe SIS Baseball Podcast


Honoring Women's History Month: Chelsea Janes, Andrea Arcidipane, Sarah Thompson

FromThe SIS Baseball Podcast

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On this episode, we honor Women’s History Month with conversations with three women who are moving the industry forward with their work in baseball analysis.Mark Simon is joined first by Chelsea Janes, national baseball writer for the Washington Post to discuss player reaction to rule changes, what to make of the Padres and Orioles heading into 2023, and other season preview-related topics. Chelsea also discusses how baseball’s receptiveness to women writers has changed in her 10 years on the job (1:02).Andrea Arcidipane, also known as “Scoutgirl” on social media, talks about her time working in baseball operations for the Yankees in 2022. Andrea also speaks on information communication and making her videos and charts accessible to any audience, and she shares a few players she finds interesting heading into 2023 (Vinnie Pasquantino, Caleb Thielbar, Adam Duvall, and Brandon Walter for different reasons). Find her work on Twitter and at https://scoutgirlreport.com/ (22:41)And SIS research analyst Sarah Thompson talks about the presentation she did at the SABR Analytics Conference on evaluating minor league outfield defense. She shares her findings on specific players and the differences between minor league and major league out rates on fly balls (36:50).Make sure to check out The Effect of Outfield Position Changes on DRS by Andrew Kyne as mentioned in the Andrea Arcidipane interview. Thanks as always for listening. Please follow us on Twitter at @sis_baseball and read our work at SportsInfoSolutions.com. You can e-mail us at Mark@sportsinfosolutions.com.
Released:
Mar 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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The R&D team at Sports Info Solutions is joined by special guests to discuss notable topics related to baseball analytics and defensive excellence. Hosted by Mark Simon.