The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking

Russell A. Carleton is a baseball writer, researcher, and fan living in Atlanta. He is a regular contributor to Baseball Prospectus, writing about advanced statistical analysis in baseball, with an emphasis on the gory mathematical details. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology from DePaul University in Chicago.

Kyle Tait is a professionally trained voice actor and narrator in Atlanta, Georgia. His first brush with a microphone came in sports radio, calling baseball in the Atlanta Braves' organization. He started voicing audiobooks during the off-season; a few years later, he left baseball to work as a narrator full-time.

Jeff Passan is a baseball columnist at Yahoo! Sports and author of the New York Times bestseller The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports.