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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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


Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome to Rates and Burials presented by Tops.

0:28.1

Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards.

0:32.5

This is Enosarous hosting.

0:34.8

It's a little bit weird to open it up.

0:37.2

But today, we have a guest, a good friend of

0:40.7

mine, Andrew Perpetua, who has worked within baseball and without. And I'd like to welcome you

0:48.1

to rights and barrels, Andrew. Thank you for having me, you know? It's great to talk to you. You've got

0:53.7

an interesting background, and I wanted's great to talk to you. You've got an interesting background,

0:55.7

and I wanted to focus on that to open the show. You know, people, some of the people listening to

1:00.5

this would like to get into baseball. So just, you know, you've, you worked with the Mets for a bit.

1:06.5

But before that, how did you get to get that opportunity?

1:11.5

And sort of what's your background educationally?

1:14.0

Or, you know, what sort of proficiencies do you have that sort of led to that moment?

1:18.7

Well, my educational background is a little weird.

1:22.1

I'm a high school dropout.

1:24.0

And I went to college when I was 17 to a little college named the

1:28.5

Simon's Rock and it's for like people who don't graduate from high school like a

1:34.6

lot of my peers were like 14 15 years old so I there I studied psychology and

1:44.0

neuroscience and chemistry.

1:46.8

And so my background is, I try to focus on more hard sciences.

1:53.6

So that's sort of my background working in like lab type things and stuff like that.

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