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Zach Crizer

  • Data Storyteller and Insights Specialist, Connexity, Inc.
  • Baseball Writer, Freelance
New York
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Covers:  sports, baseball, statistics, college football, the Internet, crime, politics
⚾️ Baseball writer helping fans fan smarter. 📬 Get The Bandwagon for 🆓: bandwagon.ghost.io

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Zach Crizer’s Biography

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Writer at Baseball Prospectus.

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Zach Crizer’s Journalist Portfolio

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Tobacco farmer's long legacy of work imperiled by family split

Tobacco farmer's long legacy of work imperiled by family split

The children of a tobacco farming patriarch, who overcame a segregated society and the plight of the industry…

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They Couldn't Light It, So Instead They Tried To Fight It. | Stry.us

They Couldn't Light It, So Instead They Tried To Fight It. | Stry.us

Which way will the wind blow when one of America’s most conservative cities heads to the polls with the chanc…

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Low and slow: Shoemaker emphasizing splitter

Low and slow: Shoemaker emphasizing splitter

Examining a starting pitcher giving an offspeed pitch an outsized role: Matt Shoemaker.

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Delayed opening of King School of Medicine illustrates tension within tobacco commission

Delayed opening of King School of Medicine illustrates tension within tobacco commission

The King grant, among the largest in the 15-year history of the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Communit…

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Tobacco commission's origin removes it from close oversight

Tobacco commission's origin removes it from close oversight

For reasons that have ranged from pragmatic to paranoid, the tobacco commission in its 15-year history has la…

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Rifts divide Presbyterians

Rifts divide Presbyterians

In hallowed halls across the Roanoke Valley and the country, Presbyterians are in the throes of hushed confli…

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The Bandwagon: Zero to Hero

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By Craig Goldstein Verified, Zach Crizer
| Baseball Prospectus
Jake Bauers and the glory of escaping the depth player label
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Zero to hero

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By Zach Crizer
| Ghost
There’s a type of guy in baseball who we are primed, above all else, to overlook. Embedded in the dewy slow motion of the fourth inning of a spring training game, six hearty scrolls down the spreadsheet, a mental stretch beyond breakout player picks. If you go seeking this type of guy, the radiation of your mere interest transforms him into a different type of guy. These guys aren’t new and shiny. They aren’t always around, but they are there enough to blend in.
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Fan-dicapping the AL wild card race

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By Zach Crizer
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Hey everyone. On Tuesday, I covered the meta level of madness with regard to the American League postseason race. Today, we are accepting that reality into our lives and looking more closely at each of the middling manufactured contenders, two of whom will play in October. Later, I'll have some bits and bobs from around the league.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Outside of my school paper, I did an internship with The New York Post. First one out of college was the long-form project Stry.us

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

It's allowing us to create engaging news environments where informing readers is a conversation, not dictation.