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
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