Honoring Women's History Month With Alexia Jorge and Emily-Anne Patt
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On this episode, we honor Women’s History Month with 2 interviews featuring women working in baseball in different ways.  First, Mark Simon talks to Saint Elizabeth University catcher Alexia Jorge, who became the 2nd woman to start at catcher in a college baseball game. Alexia has been playing baseball (not softball) her entire life and she speaks to us about her techniques for pitch framing and thwarting basestealing attempts, as well as how she prepares for upcoming opponents with limited data and information available (3:34).  Then we speak with baseball researcher Emily-Anne Patt, who talks about a project she’s worked on - with research partner James Stockton - for the last several years. Emily-Anne’s work deals with analyzing strike zone sizes and shapes for umpires, catchers, pitchers, and hitters. She’s presented at the last 2 SABR Analytics Conferences and shared some of her findings on specific players (her project is very much in line with work SIS does) (19:39).  Mark also recapps Alexia’s interview with SIS VP of Baseball Bobby Scales and talks about the things Bobby is most looking forward to watching in 2024 (32:33).  Other SIS interviews with women in baseball:  Rachel Balkovec Bianca Smith Alex Oglesby Veronica Alvarez, Tess Taruskin, Sarah Thompson Justine Siegal PhD Kiri Oler and Emily Curtis Jasmine Dunston A.J. Andrews Chelsea Janes, Andrea Arcidipane, Sarah Thompson Thank you for listening. Please check out the new FieldingBible.com website, follow us on Twitter at @sis_baseball, and read our work at SportsInfoSolutions.com. You can e-mail us at [email protected]
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