Now, Anderson has, along with programmer Jeff Stern, developed an analytics platform being marketed to MLB teams. I've had the opportunity to speak with Anderson on a couple of occasions, and he was generous enough to offer me a demo of In Depth Baseball (IDB). IDB enters the market...
Understanding of current baseball analytics topics. Strong communication and attention to detail. Experience with Excel and SQL, R, or Python. Ability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays. Ability to speak Spanish is a plus. At the Giants, we believe we put our best work forward when our...
Arizona Diamondbacks pitching coach Brent Strom, among the first mainstream pitching coaches to apply analytics to his teaching, says: "Five to six innings will be considered premium." A veteran player-development executive concurs: "Every failure of a dumb team to develop ...
They want impactful solutions that are simple to understand, easy to implement and reliably effective They want insights that are a blend of new analytics and traditional scouting They do a good job limiting pitcher injury but are driven and want to do even better ...
About a year ago, I took an introductory Business Analytics class which used the bookData Science for Business(Amazon Referral) by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett as one of the primary textbooks for the course. As I have spent more time working on simple Data Science projects, I have really...
After Maddon & Girardi signed elsewhere, I sort of figured we’d get Perez, because he’s loud and fun and analytics-savvy and is great in front of a camera. It would have been a gamble, and I wouldn’t have agreed with it, but I’d have understood it. Picking Beltran, I don...
Gordon Dee Strange: Do you have a sense how much more sophisticated the proprietary analytics that mlb clubs have is than the info you can find here, on b-ref, etc.?2:43 Ben Clemens: Much more sophisticated, particularly in terms of working with pitchers — grips, spin, that kinda stuff...
On December 2, the Diamondbacks announced the hire of Mike Fitzgerald to lead their analytics department. Perhaps Fitzgerald’s most notable contribution in Pittsburgh, where he was the No. 2-ranking analyst, was pounding the table for then free agent Russell Martin — and, at the same time,...
” In 1954Lifemagazine published an article attributed to Rickey, but masterminded by Roth, titled “Goodby to Some Old Baseball Ideas,” which was devoted to the proposition that a team’s performance might be accurately explained by anabstrusestatistical formula. Again nobody paid much attention...