Who are we?

Hannah Keyser

Zach says: Hannah asks the questions you didn’t know you wanted answered. Big and small; pointed and exploratory. Sometimes, it’s backing the commissioner into verbalizing an inconvenient truth. On other occasions, it’s wondering, “Do diving catches hurt?” The answers lead to more questions, and more stories.

Though she possibly missed higher-paid callings as a lawyer and/or therapist, people around baseball will tell you she’s a natural in the clubhouse, by the dugout rail, and on the TV sets dominated by former players who wind up asking questions of her.

She’s perceptive and open and bold enough to know that sports are both zero-sum and infinite in their potential for connection and emotional payoff.

Things I know Hannah likes: Vintage fashion, tattoos, Prospect Park, matcha, Chappell Roan, cats, farmer’s markets, pesto, a good omakase, chunky sneakers, soft serve, very specific hats

You might know Hannah’s work from Yahoo Sports, SNY, MLB Network, SNY or other outlets that are listed here. Follow her on Bluesky here or read about her non-baseball life here.

Zach Crizer

Hannah says: Zach is how I fact-check what I think about baseball. He’s as adept with an extended metaphor as he is with a complicated spreadsheet. And often uses the former to elucidate the findings of the latter in a way that makes even the nerdiest analysis seem like common sense. He uses numbers to not just tell a story, but to teach you something fundamental and often unexpected about baseball. (He once wrote about the surprisingly high turnover in MLB’s postseason field year-over-year and I think about that at least once a month.)

He’s also the person who will be planning ahead to make sure we don’t miss anything obvious. And, because he actually opens and even reads boring-but-important emails about our corporate health insurance changing, it’s possible I wouldn’t have survived working at Yahoo Sports without him.

Things I know Zach likes: Corgis, good hats, making multiple dinner reservations so you have options, watching baseball on TV instead of live at the ballpark, giving things punny names, being right about the Diamondbacks, George Kirby, fancy cocktail bars.

You can also find Zach’s work at Opta Analyst and D Magazine. Follow him on Bluesky.