The future of baseball research and how to get into a MLB front office with xSTATS' Andrew Perpetua

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Eno Sarris welcomes Andrew Perpetua, founder of xSTATS to the show. Andrew explains his unorthodox path into the Mets' front office after an accident kept him out of medical school. Eno and Andrew also discuss why he started xSTATS, what is the future of baseball research and where he's headed next.


Rundown

2:27 Andrew's education background and journey into baseball

10:50 Realizing that the data is not perfect

17:25 The three types of people that do baseball analytics

21:12 How baseball front offices need to change

31:45 What Andrew learned once he was "inside the game"

34:00 Improving technology for visual tracking

40:20 The next frontier is meshing all the technology together

47:00 What's coming next for Andrew


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow Perpetua on Twitter: @AndrewPerpetua

e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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2021-06-04 51 min

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