Jeff Passan Biography
Jeff Passan is an American baseball columnist who was born on September 21, 1980. He currently works with ESPN since January 2019. Previously, Passan was with Yahoo sports for 13 years.
Passan is the author of New York Times Best Seller The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports. He is also co-author of Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series.
He wrote for The Daily Orange at Syracuse University before covering Fresno State basketball after graduating from Solon High School in Cleveland, Ohio. Passan graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in journalism.
Jeff Passan Age
Passan was born on September 21, 1980. He has covered Major League Baseball since 2004, including 13 years for Yahoo Sports. Passan is currently working for ESPN since January 2019 and is 38 years, 9 months old.
Jeff Passan The Arm
Jeff Passan is the author of New York Times best-seller book; The Arm:Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports. In a synopsis:
Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five times the salary of all NFL quarterbacks combined. Pitchers are the lifeblood of the sport, the ones who win championships, but today they face an epidemic unlike any baseball has ever seen.
One tiny ligament in the elbow keeps snapping and sending teenagers and major leaguers alike to undergo surgery, an issue the baseball establishment ignored for decades. For three years, Jeff Passan, the lead baseball columnist for Yahoo Sports, has traveled the world to better understand the mechanics of the arm and its place in the sport’s past, present, and future. He got the inside story of how the Chicago Cubs decided to spend $155 million on one pitcher.
Jeff Passan sat down for a rare interview with Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, whose career ended at 30 because of an arm injury. He went to Japan to understand how another baseball-obsessed nation deals with this crisis. And he followed two major league pitchers as they returned from Tommy John surgery, the revolutionary procedure named for the former All-Star who first underwent it more than 40 years ago.
Jeff Passan discovered a culture that struggles to prevent arm injuries and lacks the support for the changes necessary to do so. He explains that without a drastic shift in how baseball thinks about its talent, another generation of pitchers will fall prey to the same problem that vexes the current one.
Equal parts medical thriller and cautionary tale, The Arm is a searing exploration of baseball’s most valuable commodity and the redemption that can be found in one fragile and mysterious limb.
Jeff Passan Red Sox
A day after Boston Red Sox icon David Ortiz was shot in his native Dominican Republic, the team had a home game at Fenway Park against the Texas Rangers.
Prior to the first pitch, the Red Sox held a moment of silence for Ortiz, who is reportedly in stable condition and will return to Boston for further treatment on a plane provided by the team when he’s able to fly.
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