Rob Neyer Joins SB Nation
As many baseball fans learned yesterday, Rob Neyer wrote his last column for ESPN yesterday. We were informed we'd find out soon what Rob's next venture would be. As it turned out, Neyer's move has come close to our home here at SB Nation.
If SB Nation hasn't hit the big time already, this most assuredly did. So, whether you love Rob Neyer's work, hate it (as he wrote, he's not a sacred cow) or are just learning of who Rob Neyer is, please head on over to his first SB Nation piece and give him a warm welcome
Rob Neyer (born June 22, 1966) is a baseball author. He started his career working for Bill James and STATS, and then joined ESPN.com as a columnist from 1996 to January 2011. A disciple of major sabermetrics figure Bill James, his writing is an outlet for everyday fans to gain insight that statistics-centered analysis can offer.
Early life
Neyer spent the early years of his childhood in the upper Midwest and later moved to the middle Midwest, close to the Kansas City area. He attended the University of Kansas, where he picked up a passion for baseball after reading Peter Golenbock's Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Bill James Baseball Abstract 1984. Uninterested in school, Neyer left college during his fourth year and took a job roofing houses.
Writing career
Neyer was introduced to Bill James by a casual friend, Mike Kopf, nine months after dropping out of college. He was soon hired as a research assistant. Neyer's first project with James was helping compile material for the book This Time Let's Not Eat the Bones, a collection of material from the Abstracts. After four years under the tutelage of James, Neyer took a job at STATS, Inc., before joining ESPNet SportsZone, ESPN.com's forerunner, in 1996.Until 2004, Neyer's work was available without subscription. For a few years, it was part of the "Insider" service and could thus only be read with a paid subscription. Since 2007, the bulk of Neyer's ESPN work has shifted to his daily blog, which is no longer Insider-only.
On March 6, 2007 Neyer set the record for longest ESPN.com chat, at 6 hours and 37 minutes. The record was broken when Bill Simmons chatted for 7 hours and 4 minutes on November 28, 2007Neyer was able to regain the record from Simmons with a 12 hour and 1 minute chat on Opening Day of the 2008 baseball season, March 31, 2008;in his closing remark, he quoted Ring Lardner: "The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet."
Neyer is the author or co-author of six books: Baseball Dynasties (2000) with Eddie Epstein, Feeding the Green Monster (2001), Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups (2003), The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (2004) with Bill James, Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders (2006), and Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends (2008). He is on the 10-person voting panel for the Fielding Bible Awards, an alternative to the Gold Glove Awards in Major League Baseball
He is regularly cited in the "Keeping Score" column in the New York Times and elsewhere. Bill James describes him as "the best of the new generation of sportswriters. He knows baseball history like a child knows his piggy bank. He knows how to pick it up and shake it and make what he needs fall out."
Neyer currently lives in Portland, Oregon.He is a fan of the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
Neyer announced on January 31, 2011 that he was leaving ESPN after 15 years.
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