Episode 1003
After a big week in baseball, we bring you two face-to-face conversations from the San Diego Winter Meetings before a chat about outfield defense.
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<li>First up, <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/author/david-laurila/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">David Laurila</a> sits down with <a href="https://www.fangraphs.com/players/fernando-perez/7755/stats?position=OF" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Fernando Perez</a>, former major league outfielder and analyst and current coach for the San Francisco Giants. We hear what Fernando was doing at the Winter Meetings and what he and Farhan Zaidi talk about in the suite (it mostly isn&#8217;t baseball), as well as what Fernando&#8217;s coaching role entails. David and Fernando also talk about soccer and the World Cup, if he would be a good scout, and his relationship with former managers Joe Maddon and Matt Quatraro. [4:35]</li>
<li>After that, <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/author/jayjaffe/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jay Jaffe</a> sits down with old friend <a href="https://twitter.com/enosarris" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Eno Sarris</a> of <a href="https://theathletic.com/author/eno-sarris/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Athletic</a>, who is excited to be casting his first Hall of Fame ballot this year. The pair go through the list of noteworthy candidates, from <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2023-hall-of-fame-ballot-scott-rolen/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Rolen</a> to <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2023-hall-of-fame-ballot-billy-wagner/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Wagner</a> to <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2023-hall-of-fame-ballot-jeff-kent/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Kent</a> to <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2022-hall-of-fame-ballot-gary-sheffield/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sheffield</a> to <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2023-hall-of-fame-ballot-carlos-beltran/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Beltrán</a> to <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2023-hall-of-fame-ballot-andruw-jones/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jones</a> to <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2023-hall-of-fame-ballot-bobby-abreu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Abreu</a> to <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jaws-and-the-2023-hall-of-fame-ballot-todd-helton/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Helton</a> and more, as Eno looks for some guidance from someone who has done his share of research on the subject. Jay and Eno also discuss the elephant in the room that is PEDs, wishing they&#8217;d had the same advanced data back then that they do now, aiming for logical consistency, and who Eno was most looking forward to voting for with his first ballot. [29:39]</li>
<li>Finally, <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/author/davyandrews/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Davy Andrews</a> welcomes fellow contributor <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/author/eyesguys1/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Alex Eisert</a> for his FanGraphs Audio debut. Both <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/who-got-lucky-in-the-outfield/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Davy</a> and <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-nick-castellanos-inspired-look-at-directional-outs-above-average/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Alex</a> have been <a href="https://blogs.fangraphs.com/more-than-a-putout-puzzle-revisiting-the-problem-of-outfield-alignment/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">writing</a> about outfield defense at the site recently, so they get together to dig into OAA and their theories about the effects of player handedness. We also get the story on how Alex came to write at FanGraphs, the need for more psychology in baseball, how good <a href="https://www.fangraphs.com/players/daulton-varsho/19918/stats?position=C/OF" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Daulton Varsho</a> is at learning skills, and the process of intentionally (or unintentionally) adding jokes to their articles. [1:08:44]</li>
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