Travis Sawchik From theScore Talks Sabermetrics in Baseball and His Writing, Working His Way Up the Newspaper Ranks
By Liam McKeone
Travis Sawchik is a senior MLB writer for theScore. A proud Ohio State grad (to the chagrin of the host), Sawchik joined the Press Pass Podcast to discuss his career at length. Sawchik started off at a small newspaper in North Carolina covering local beats before working his way up the ranks, as a prospect works his way from Single-A to the Majors. He ended up at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where Sawchik began to work sabermetrics and advanced stats into his writing.
Sawchik entered the online-only media game about five years ago and jumped around before finally ending up at theScore as a senior writer with the ability to tell stories while dive into the obscure stats that a segment of the baseball fandom know and love. Listen to the podcast in full below, as well as on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts.
PREVIOUS PRESS PASS PODCASTS
Matt Murphy, Delaware Blue Coats... Stephen Cannella, Sports Illustrated...Jeremy Schapp, ESPN...Dom Cosentino, theScore...Erik Horne, The Athletic...Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN... Jeopardy championKara Spak... Adam Amin, Fox Sports ...Andrew Marchand, New York Post ... Nicki Jhabvala, Washington Post ... Nicole Yang, Boston Globe ...Chris Cotillo, MassLive ... Trevor Lane, Lakers Nation ... Mark Carman, Fansided ... Will Guillory, The Athletic ... Keith Law, The Athletic ... Maddy Glab, Buffalo Bills ... Greg Moore, Arizona Republic ... Brandon Tierney, CBS Sports ... Todd Archer, ESPN ... Dan Kurtz, MyKBO ... Matt Miller, Bleacher Report ... Armando Salguero, Miami Herald ... Vic Tafur, The Athletic ... Robert Seidman, Sports TV Ratings ... Brian Anderson, Turner Sports ... Mike Reiss, ESPN ... Chad Finn, Boston Globe ... Keith Smith, Yahoo! Sports ... Ethan Strauss, The Athletic ... Kyle Neubeck, PhillyVoice ... Jenna Laine, ESPN ... Yaron Weitzman, Bleacher Report ... Greg Auman, The Athletic ... Mo Dakhil, Bleacher Report/The Athletic ... Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer ... Michael Pina, SB Nation ... Arif Hasan, The Athletic ... Max Adler, Golf Digest ... Jay King, The Athletic ... Mirin Fader, Bleacher Report ... Charles McDonald, New York Daily News ... Haley O'Shaughnessy, The Ringer ... Sarah Spencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ... Jovan Buha, The Athletic ... Shea Serrano, The Ringer ... Daniel Oyefusi, Baltimore Sun ... Ahmed Fareed, NBC Sports