With a background in clinical psychology as well as experience of working in major league front offices, former Baseball Prospectus writer and all-round nice chap Russell A. Carleton was uniquely placed to provide a marriage of sabermetrics and cognitive science in his excellent 2018 book, The Shift.
Fortunate (and very grateful!) to be given the opportunity to discuss the book with the author himself, in the first part of the episode we chatted to Russell about his process and how his background in clinical psychology inspired the book.
We were also joined by Henry Cooke (@LWIMTH) from the sublime Absolute Bunts podcast, for the round-table part of the show, in which we marvelled at the books warmth and universal appeal, and discussed the way in which the book has impacted our baseball consumption and, to an extent, our lives more generally!
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