FanGraphs Is Hiring! Seeking a Full-Time Writer.
Update: Please submit your application before Tuesday, January 23rd and 12:00 AM.
FanGraphs has grown tremendously these last few years, and we’re thrilled that you all have helped build this community into one of the best baseball hubs on the internet. And now, we’re growing again, as we’re looking to bring on another full-time writer to join our staff.
We’re looking for someone who is interested in publishing daily, covering the ins and outs of what is happening in Major League Baseball. Familiarity and comfort with the data here on FanGraphs is a requirement, but just as importantly, we’re looking for someone who asks interesting questions and then provides analysis or commentary around those questions.
This is a full-time salaried position with benefits. If you have a passion for writing about baseball and think you’d be a good fit with us, send us an email at wanted@fangraphs.com, and use the subject line “FanGraphs Full-Time Writer Application – 2018”; please ensure that is the subject so that we can keep all of the applications organized, and ensure yours does not slip through the cracks.
In your application, please include samples or links to work you’ve published previously, or some new original content that you feel best emphasizes your writing abilities and interests. You may also include a resume, but it is not required for the initial application.
As FanGraphs is a web-based business, relocation will not be required; this job can be completed from most geographic locations, as long as you have reliable internet access and are willing to work during the hours when people in the United States are awake.
If for some reason your application is unable to go through via the wanted@fangraphs.com e-mail address, please fill out a contact form with the same subject “FanGraphs Full-Time Writer Application – 2018” and you will be provided an alternate e-mail address to submit your application.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
I surely hope this turns into a reality show style competition, where we readers get to vote our favorites while the Daves just go ahead and choose whoever they like regardless of our wishes!
I’ll play the Bitchie Girl. (Bitchie Richie; it’s a winner, I tells ya!) Someone’ll have to pay for the implants, tho’.
https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/8885/prospectus-idol-meet-the-finalists/ ?
It’s at this exact moment that I really wish I had the talent, intelligence, and/or personal drive to apply for such a position.
Dear Fangraphs team,
Please hire me if you want someone to bitch about the Mets every day.
Sincerely,
Mike
P.S. you don’t even have to pay me. Its amazing, I know. It just comes naturally.
I nominate the Serbian to Vietnamese to French person.
(Looking for comments to translate has become almost a full time job. Might as well get paid for it 😉 – Serb.)
As the originator of this proud Fangraphs Comment Section Demi-god thing, I heartily support any and all advancements for my internet meme-child.
(a eskpert – props as always for originating the Ur-meme back in the day – Serb)
Holy Motherforking Shirtballs!
Or shirtless.
I love that Fangraphs is doing well enough to be able to add to their staff writers. Shows that there is still a viable market for intelligently written baseball content.
While also having Carson Cistulli on staff
It’s good to know the two are not mutually exclusive!
Haha if by intelligent you mean throwing a whole bunch of crap stats against a wall and creating some useless charts and being on the bandwagon of winning teams then hell yea this is intelligent!
Following the ESPN formula much?
“All these stats prove why Yasmani Grandal adjusted WAR is 7.”
next thing you know he can’t get 10 AB in the entire playoffs. LOL
“All these stats make Swanson my pick for ROY.”
“Puig needs to be traded, I mean just look at these stats”
“Forsythe trade is a good idea, look at these stats…”
Countless articles on the fly-ball era, all of them with misinformation about what was truly happening…
“These stats explain why Kershaw’s 5 ERA in playoffs is different & better from every other pitcher in MLB history…”
“San Diego might not win 60 games, I mean look at these stats…”
If any other manger fell that flat on his face with bullpen management in GAME FREAKING 2, they would of been destroyed
“But here is why what Dave Roberts was thinking didn’t work, but what he was thinking was intelligent”
I’m buying extra mega millions and Powerball tickets. If I win first thing I’ll do is send my application along with a sample of the best articles I can plagiarize.
For the last time, if nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve. So leave me alone, else I’ll get a restraining order. Besides which, I’ll soon not need your filthy lucre as this Nigerian guy whom I met over email is going to give me a whole bunch of it. Ummm, anybody have a spare checking account number I can borrow for just a bit??
I’d apply, but I’m not sure you recognize greatness, so I can’t take that chance.
Growing?? Does this mean we can #KeepNotGraphs ?
Also I’m just secretly hoping August F reads this and decides to say “screw it” and make a comeback.
If they can bring back Roseanne, Notgraphs should be a no brainer
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I’m very tempted to apply with two or three NotGraphs-appropriate articles as my sample just for the lolz.
hire Me! I rite good.
Dumb ass.
Conservatives need not apply – you are not welcome here.
Cannot believe they hid this disclaimer 16 posts deep in the comment section. I was just about to put the finishing touches on my cover letter.
Well, this is a reality-based website.
Thanks Obama!
He blamed Bush. Me? I like Bush.
I like that on a website whose commentariat runs 60% left of center (I’m guessing) this has been downvoted to oblivion.
i bet you’d be surprised. prolly 50/50 just like the country.
Dear Fangraphs Staff,
As echoed in an earlier comment, the hiring of an additional writer is great news. Where else can we compliment, complain and think what we write is important to others. All this for free, or, at least, minimal cost.
Best wishes in the vetting process.
I mean, would it be crazy for them to let the, say, four finalist post and make the community response part of the hiring decision?
How much does it pay?
That last condition sank me. I’m only willing to work during the hours when shirtless people in Serbia, Vietnam and France are awake.
hmmm…might be tough to get WiFi while floating on an innertube in the Kaufman fountains. I’m going to have to do some tests.
Does FG need a resident contrarian? I can play the part of the ’60s era manager that likes the grit and attitude of veterans while spitting tobacco at the ‘promising’ rookies. Instead of WAR I’ll promote WAC (What A Crock). I’ll also try to maximize the down votes in my own comment section, if only to centralize everyone’s statistical frustration on the site.
When’s the submission deadline?
I hope no one is leaving.
A quick shout-out: FG has killed it, and I’m glad they’ve been able to monetize the content sufficiently to make this happen. This is a terrific site with great writers. To survive – and thrive – during the startup phase (with what I think is just an awful name) and now to continue to expand… mad props here.
Keep on killing it.
I wish I could write
kiley mcdanial needs to get to work. what about him for this?
You must have missed this: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/hello-again/
Smote by the Dark Overlord.