Working in Baseball, Pt. 1: Sam Fuld, Ross Fenstermaker & Sean Ahmed
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This episode is part one of a two-show series called “Working in Baseball”.
At this year’s Winter Meetings in Nashville, we had an opportunity to discuss jobs in baseball with several people in different positions around the game. Whether you’re a long-time fan interested in knowing more about the inner workings of the sport, or someone who hopes to build a career in baseball, we think you’ll enjoy these conversations.
On this episode, Eno sits down with Phillies general manager Sam Fuld, Rangers assistant general manager Ross Fenstermaker, and Pirates Director of Research & Development Sean Ahmed.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:24.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost, |
| 0:27.6 | tease and exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. This episode is part of a two-show series that we're calling Working in Baseball. |
| 0:52.2 | At this year's winter meetings in Nashville, we had an opportunity to discuss jobs in baseball |
| 0:56.6 | with several people in different positions around the game. |
| 0:59.9 | Whether you're a longtime fan, interested in knowing more about the inner workings of the sport, |
| 1:03.9 | or someone who hopes to build a career in baseball, we think you'll enjoy these conversations. |
| 1:09.3 | In our first conversation of this episode, Eno sat down with Philly's general manager, Sam Fold, to discuss his move from the field to the front office after eight years in the big leagues. |
| 1:20.4 | All right, we're here with Sam Fold, GM, and one-time friend in the clubhouse. |
| 1:28.0 | Congratulations on two great seasons in a row with the Phillies. |
| 1:32.3 | And we've been doing this series here. |
| 1:34.4 | We've been talking to people about their pathways to where they are. |
| 1:38.9 | And I just want you to help sort of connect the dots between those conversations we have in in the |
| 1:45.7 | clubhouse with the A's and where you are today. Yeah, I'll try to do that quickly. Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:52.6 | I think when I played, I was always just, I don't know, curious, looked at the game with an open |
| 1:58.0 | mind. It was just a kid growing up who really liked numbers. |
| 2:03.2 | I was like the darky kid who carried around a stats book. |
| 2:06.3 | That was like my security blanket growing up as a five and six year old. |
| 2:10.6 | And so I just always was interested in the statistics that the game is like, |
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