Effectively Wild Episode 878: Gender Imbalance in Baseball Operations

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to Dodgers Baseball Operations Coordinator Emilee Fragapane and Senior R&D Analyst Megan Schroeder about their backgrounds and responsibilities and the gender imbalance in baseball operations departments.

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0:00.0	Look into my head to see I got to come on
0:07.0	E
0:10.0	I live and I smile and buy the baby open the door
0:16.0	I'm bustin' in
0:21.0	Because this runnin' around
0:24.0	Showin' up, showin' up this killin' me
0:27.0	Yes it is
0:29.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 878 of Effectively Wild
0:34.0	The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectives
0:36.0	Presented by our Patreon supporters and the Playindex at baseballreference.com
0:40.0	I'm Ben Lemberg of 538
0:43.0	Joint is always by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectives
0:45.0	Hello Sam, howdy
0:46.0	We have two special guests today and we wanted to talk to them
0:50.0	Because a couple of weeks ago Rob Arthur and I wrote something for 538
0:55.0	About the growth in baseballs R&D departments and really front offices in general
1:00.0	Seems like the count of full-time employees in R&D departments has doubled every few years over the last several
1:07.0	And yet as we noted there's still a very pronounced gender imbalance in this area
1:14.0	And really all across baseball operations departments it's not just confined to R&D
1:19.0	Although that tends to be what Sam and I focus on and so that's what we wanted to talk about
1:24.0	And as Rob and I found it it seemed as if there were of the 190 or so full-time R&D employees that we could count
1:33.0	And those definitions are somewhat murky of course
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