My blog received a serious makeover this week! A HUGE thank you goes out to Lindsay, whom I cannot imagine life without. Her endless support is the reason I am still able to dedicate a large part of my life to the game I love.
Take a look around the site and enjoy!
Six years ago, I was a junior at Grand Valley State University. I was taking a sports’ journalism class that required a thoroughly researched and detailed topic that was affecting the world of sports at the time for my final.
I wrote a paper on the Miguel Cabrera/Mike Trout MVP debate and the statistics that drove the argument, in addition to giving my professor a walkthrough on statistics we use in baseball on a regular basis that are inherently flawed. At the end of my paper, I listed statistics that I use on a regular basis that I still believe to this day are good indicators of player performance that stay close to equal amongst all players.
To my knowledge, I have not shown anyone the final essay in its entirety: exceptions being my professor, Andy Rodriguez, and the Milwaukee Brewers.
I received an “A” on the final, and included this paper in my portfolio to the Brewers that I assume, in part, landed me the job. I will eventually share every part of that portfolio on this blog. I also find it important to revisit my experience and the amount of work and dumb luck it took to land me that internship, as well, but I figure this essay is a great place to start. We all use statistics to determine player value, regardless of sport. I will help walk you through which statistics are the good ones in baseball, and why the we should stop using the flawed ones.
Anything related to my past experiences or projects in baseball will be posted monthly.
You can view the post here. Enjoy.
In an effort to build a better baseball portfolio, I am going to start creating new media to share my insights on the state of the game, and anything else. This blog is the start, with a podcast coming soon.
A little about me: I was introduced to baseball at a very young age. I played the game from age 5 to 17, only taking it seriously the last four years of my playing career. I fell in love with the game in 2006, during the Detroit Tigers’ postseason run that captured an American League pennant and a World Series matchup with the St. Louis Cardinals that fizzled quickly in 5 games. From that October onward, I became a kid obsessed with the sport and quickly scrambled to find ways to keep myself involved.
In 2014, that passion developed into something tangible: I was hired on as a Baseball Operations intern in the Milwaukee Brewers front office. It was my dream come true. That internship gave me invaluable insight into how a front office operates, the economics that make up the industry, and an education on how to evaluate talent on both an amateur level and a professional level. Ever since that internship ended, I have still been in a constant pursuit of knowledge, and this blog, I hope, gives me an opportunity to showcase that.
My blog will cover all aspects of the game: scouting, analytics, players, economics, and much much more. I will always be a work-in-progress, and no matter where this blog takes me, I will always be a fan.
See you soon.
Basebald Guy 