Rob Neyer: most influential baseball writer of the last 10 years

And it's not even close.  Although he owes much to Bill James, it was Neyer who popularized sabermetrics through his column at ESPN.com.  If not for him, no one today would know what OPS is, and statistics like on-base percentage would be undervalued.  Neyer was also one of the first to recognize that high pitch counts could be harmful to young pitchers.  These things seem elementary now, but that was not so before Neyer got his column at ESPN.com in 1996.  One day, Neyer will be enshrined in Cooperstown for revolutionizing baseball analysis at the turn of the century. 

 

Someone started a new account and wasted their first post on this?

 

Thanks for stopping by, Rob. ;D

(Although I do, in a way, agree with you on Rob helping to bring it to the masses through ESPN.com. Most influential in the last decade? Ahh, that's all subjective. Helluva writer -- and even better statistical analyst -- who has carved a great niche for himself both for casual fans and seamheads? Hell yeah.)

 

Is this a time warp?

 

This guy has been here before.

 

You know what I call Rob Neyer?

Bill James 2: Electric Boogaloo.

 

Rob Neyer once killed a utility player with a crappy OBP just to get an erection.

 

Who's your friend. Who's yourbuddy?

 

Rob Neyer is to Bill James as the apostle Boogaloo Shrimp (complete with ceiling dance montage) was to Ozone.

 

VORP!