Director, Baseball Systems

Who We Are
Arizona is the culmination of new people, cultures, businesses, and sports. For people and businesses, settling into a new environment takes time and effort, let alone sports teams. It can take years, sometimes decades, for fans to get behind a new sports franchise. The Diamondbacks took on this task when we were born into the National League in 1998. However, we were quick to captivate the love and attention of Arizonan’s everywhere. As the quickest expansion team in MLB history to capture the sports highest honor, the World Series, we also captured the memories and love of many fans in an incredibly emotional 2001 championship. These types of memories are what we strive to reproduce each season on the field, and in any other association of our brand. Being a part of our fan’s lives is something we cherish and place an enormous value on.

Our Mission
The mission of the Arizona Diamondbacks is to provide industry-leading entertainment in a clean, safe and family friendly environment and to make a positive impact on its fans and civic partners by focusing on team performance, fan experience, financial efficiency, workplace culture, and community contribution.

In doing so, the organization will consistently compete for championships, treat its customers to quality service and entertainment, invest in its product, employees and fans, and establish and maintain a position of leadership in the community.

Our Culture
As a Team Player you will find that our culture is built on support, respect and trust that leads to a positive and productive work environment. We value each other’s talents and dedication to create a prideful sense of unity. Our unique and versatile mindset allows us to be at the forefront and serve as pioneers and leaders in the industry. We empower each other to be the best. Our potential is endless, and we will continually strive to be innovative in every facet. Our passion is shown in our commitment to help everyone including our partners, neighbors, fans, and community. We are more than just employees: we are family.

What we offer

• Health benefits that start your first day of employment (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Generous 401K plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• 13 paid holidays
• Paid Vacation
• Sick days (6)
• Extended Holiday Break
• Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks)
• Team Shop Discount
• Free Gym Membership
• Complementary tickets to Diamondbacks home games
• Free parking

The Arizona Diamondbacks are seeking a Director of Baseball Systems to lead the continued design, development, and evolution of our internal baseball decision-making platform. This role sits at the intersection of technology, data, and baseball operations—and plays a critical role in our group’s ability to translate information into a competitive advantage on the field.

The Director of Baseball Systems will be both a hands-on contributor and a people leader, responsible for building scalable, intuitive, and reliable systems while developing a high-performing team of software and data engineers. This individual will help ensure our systems support clear thinking, sound decision-making, and alignment across Baseball Operations.

Key Responsibilities

Build & Evolve Core Systems

• Lead the development, expansion, and continuous improvement of our internal baseball systems, ensuring they are intuitive, dependable, and meaningfully improve decision-making.
• Own architectural strategy to ensure systems are scalable, performant, and adaptable as organizational needs evolve.
• Guide ongoing cloud data migration efforts, maintaining and improving existing pipelines while designing new, robust, and responsive data platforms.

Lead & Develop People

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of software and data engineers with diverse skill sets across full-stack development, database management, cloud architecture, and system design.
• Establish best practices for code quality, system reliability, documentation, and long-term maintainability.
• Create an environment of support and accountability where engineers are empowered to do their best work and continuously improve.

Collaborate Across Baseball Operations

• Partner closely with stakeholders across Baseball Operations—including the front office, player development, scouting, and research & development—to understand needs, ask the right questions, and translate ideas into effective technical solutions.
• Serve as a bridge between technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring shared understanding and alignment around system capabilities and limitations.
• Design systems that respect the realities of baseball workflows while elevating clarity, efficiency, and trust in the information being delivered.

Qualifications & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Expert-level proficiency in multiple areas, including:
  • Front-end development
  • Back-end development
  • Cloud architecture
  • Database design and management
  • UX/UI design
  • Experience integrating and maintaining third-party APIs.

Leadership & Communication

• Proven experience leading technical teams.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated judgment in balancing thoroughness with simplicity—building systems that are powerful without being unnecessarily complex.

To Apply
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As part of our constant, unwavering (some might say neurotic) efforts to make RosterResource the clearinghouse for everything baseball related, we’ve added contract incentive data to our Team Payroll pages and created a separate Payroll Incentives table.

Let’s walk through the new features, using Matt Strahm’s current contract as an example. In March of 2024, Strahm signed a one-year, $7.5 million extension with the Phillies covering the 2025 season. The contract also included a $4.5 million vesting option for 2026, which could increase by as much as $3 million for reaching 40, 50, and 60 innings pitched in 2025; Strahm exceeded all of those thresholds, throwing 62.1 innings. After the option vested, Strahm was traded to the Royals. Read the rest of this entry »

Analyst, Research & Development

If you are driven to deliver exceptional fan experiences that are beyond anything possible elsewhere and interested in working alongside a team of innovators and enthusiastic over-achievers, you will enjoy working with us!

Position Overview:
The R&D Analyst position will assist Baseball Operations decision-making through the analysis and research of baseball information. The day-to-day responsibilities of this position will revolve around using data analysis & modeling techniques to provide insight into player evaluation, performance projection, roster construction, and all other facets of baseball operations decision making, with an emphasis on different areas of baseball operations depending on the baseball calendar and needs of the department. The position will report to Assistant General Manager, Research and Development.

Major responsibilities:

• Perform advanced statistical analysis on large datasets in order to assist in the decision making of the Baseball Operations department
• Develop and maintain models, software, reports, or any other information system developed during research
• Complete ad-hoc research projects as requested and present results in a concise manner
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States
• 2+ years of full-time work experience in a data science role
• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Operations Research, or related quantitative field
• Proven experience with statistical modeling software (Python and/or R)
• Strong foundation in the application of statistical concepts to baseball data, including familiarity with the current state of baseball research
• Working experience with SQL and relational databases
• Familiarity with using version control such as git
• Ability to communicate technical findings to individuals with diverse baseball backgrounds (ability to create effective data visualizations is a plus)
• Ability to work flexible hours, including some nights and weekends as dictated by the Major League season
• Must complete a successful background check

Preferred qualifications:

• Demonstrated statistical research in the sports analytics field
• Ability to and desire to learn other programming languages as needed
• Familiarity with big data techniques
• Exposure to cloud-based technology
• Exposure to computer vision techniques

The Atlanta National League Baseball Club, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. A diverse workforce representing varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences is key to delivering on our business promise to our fans and the communities we serve. All qualified candidates are welcome to apply.

If you are disabled as defined by the Americans With Disabilities Act and require a reasonable accommodation in order to complete your online application, including making a change to the application process, please contact our Human Resources team at PeopleCapital@braves.com

To Apply
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It’s been quite a while since we produced new FanGraphs apparel, and this time, we decided to try something completely different.

We partnered with clothing brand Ellsworth & Ivy to make The Retro FanGraphs Sweatshirt and The Women’s FanGraphs Quarterzip Sweater. The first (and possibly last) run of these is quite limited, with about 50 sweatshirts and 30 sweaters available. We had no budget for models, either, so you’re stuck with the Appelmans to get a sense of what these look like.

The Retro FanGraphs Sweatshirt has fully stitched chenille lettering and a stitched logo near the bottom hem:

The Women’s FanGraphs Quarterzip Sweater also has fully stitched chenille lettering and a stitched logo on the sleeve:

We think they look pretty sharp, and provide a slightly more dressed up look than our standard hoodie.

The Retro Sweatshirt is $90 and the Women’s Quarterzip Sweater is $120. They’re both available for sale now and ready to ship!

Prep Baseball Roles

• Data Operations Engineer (Full-time)

• Data Engineering Intern (40 hours, paid)

• Baseball Analytics Intern (40 hours, paid)

Instructions on how to apply below each role:

About Prep Baseball:
Since its inception in 2005, Prep Baseball has evolved into one of the country’s biggest and most respected independent scouting services, with a singular focus of providing comprehensive year-round coverage in every state we are in. The mission of Prep Baseball is to scout and promote amateur baseball and, ultimately, help athletes achieve their dreams of playing baseball at the next level. With more than 150 scouts, we have the largest baseball scouting infrastructure across all levels of amateur baseball in the country.

Prep Baseball is the No. 1 resource for amateur baseball data in each region we cover. We achieve this by running high-quality events with the best players in each location, supported by our boots-on-the-ground scouting staff and multimedia platforms. Our goal is to become the authoritative voice on the ground level of each region.

The Data Operations team is responsible for ingesting data from trackman radars, blast motion bat sensors, VALD timing gates, as well as building internal and publicly facing data products around amateur baseball showcases and tournaments. The team is also responsible for data quality, data analysis, and data visualizations of baseball data. Through these roles, will impact our future initiatives, app development and data analytics.

This team sits at the intersection of event operations, analytics, and product. The team owns the systems and processes that transform raw, on-field data into trusted datasets used across the organization. This includes ensuring data accuracy at scale, supporting time-sensitive workflows during the season, and enabling long-term player analysis across multiple years and events.

Data Operations Engineer (remote)

About the Role
The Data Operations Engineer is responsible for designing, maintaining, and improving the data pipelines and workflows that power Prep Baseball’s analytics ecosystem. This role focuses on operational reliability, data quality, and scalability in a high-volume, event-driven environment.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest and process data from Prep Baseball events, including radar, sensor, and scouting inputs.
• Own data quality, accuracy, and reliability for datasets used across internal tools and public-facing products.
• Develop and maintain data models that support longitudinal player tracking across events, regions, and seasons.
• Partner with scouting, operations, analytics, and product teams to translate real-world workflows into durable data solutions.
• Implement data validation, monitoring, and alerting to proactively identify and resolve data issues.
• Optimize ingestion and transformation workflows to handle high event volume and seasonal spikes.
• Support near-real-time and post-event data availability to meet operational and analytical needs.
• Maintain clear documentation and data definitions to ensure datasets are accessible and well-understood.
• Manage schema changes, historical backfills, and system improvements without disrupting existing workflows.
• Support the integration of new testing technologies, sensors, and event formats into the data ecosystem.
• Contribute to long-term planning and evolution of Prep Baseball’s data operations infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a data operations, data engineering, or analytics engineering role.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience working with relational databases.
• Experience building, maintaining, or supporting data pipelines in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience working with cloud-based data infrastructure, preferably on AWS.
• Familiarity with AWS services commonly used in data workflows, such as S3, RDS, Redshift, and Lambda.
• Experience using AWS Lambda or similar serverless tools to support data ingestion, transformation, or automation tasks.

How to apply. Email mcgowan@prepbaseball.com with the subject your full name – Data Operations Engineer. In the email, please include:

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Answer the following questions:
1. What makes you interested in working at Prep Baseball?
2. How would you design a schema for players and events?
3. Describe a data system or pipeline you’ve built that you’re most proud of. What problem was it solving, and why does it stand out to you?

Data Operations Intern (Backend Data Engineering)

Prep Baseball | Remote

About the Role

The Data Operations Intern will support the backend data engineering systems that power Prep Baseball’s analytics and data products. This role is focused on building and maintaining data pipelines, improving data reliability, and supporting production workflows in a high-volume, event-driven environment.
This internship is designed for candidates who are interested in backend engineering and data infrastructure, not data science or statistical modeling. Interns will work closely with Data Operations Engineers to gain hands-on experience with real production systems, including cloud-based workflows on AWS. High-performing interns may be considered for future full-time roles within Data Operations.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Assist with building and maintaining backend data pipelines that ingest and process data from Prep Baseball events.
• Support data ingestion workflows for radar, sensor, and scouting data collected in live event environments.
• Help implement data validation, error handling, and basic monitoring to improve pipeline reliability.
• Assist with maintaining and updating relational databases used by internal tools and public-facing products.
• Support schema updates, data backfills, and pipeline improvements under guidance from senior engineers.
• Assist with backend automation tasks using AWS services such as S3 and Lambda.
• Help test and deploy small updates to cloud-based data workflows.
• Document data workflows, schemas, and system behavior.
• Participate in debugging and resolving data pipeline issues alongside Data Operations Engineers.
• Learn best practices for building reliable backend systems in a cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Strong interest in backend engineering, data infrastructure, or data engineering.
• Currently pursuing or recently completed coursework in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Experience writing code in at least one backend-oriented programming language (e.g., Python, Java, or similar).
• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases.
• Basic understanding of how data flows through backend systems (pipelines, batch jobs, APIs).
• Exposure to cloud concepts or AWS services (coursework, labs, or personal projects is sufficient).
• Interest in learning how AWS Lambda and other serverless tools are used in production data systems.
• Comfort working with evolving data structures and imperfect inputs.
• Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate in a remote team environment.
• Interest in baseball or sports technology is a plus, but not required.

How to apply. Email mcgowan@prepbaseball.com with the subject your “full name – Backend Engineering Internship”. In the email, please include:

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Answer the following questions:
1. What interests you about working at Prep Baseball
2. What interests you about backend engineering, and how does it differ from data analysis or analytics work in your mind?
3. When working with data, which type of work do you enjoy more and why:
• Building systems that move, store, and validate data
• Or analyzing data to find patterns and insights?

Baseball Analytics Intern (remote)

About the Role
The Analytics Internship will work on applied research and exploratory data projects using real-world amateur baseball data. This role is designed for individuals interested in using data to ask better baseball questions, evaluate performance, and improve how players are measured and understood.
Interns will contribute to research-oriented initiatives while gaining exposure to production data workflows. High-performing interns may be considered for future full-time roles within the Data Operations team.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Explore and analyze large-scale amateur baseball datasets collected from Prep Baseball events, including performance testing, sensor data, and scouting inputs.
• Support research and development projects focused on evaluating metrics, testing assumptions, and identifying meaningful performance indicators.
• Assist in cleaning, validating, and preparing event data for analysis and research use.
• Perform exploratory data analysis to identify trends, distributions, outliers, and sources of variability across events and regions.
• Help assess the reliability and consistency of measurements collected in live event environments.
• Collaborate with Data Operations, media, and scouting stakeholders to frame research questions grounded in applicable scouting and recruiting use cases.
• Create clear summaries, visualizations, or written explanations of findings.
• Assist with documentation of metrics, methodologies, and assumptions used in research projects.
• Contribute to experimentation around new data sources, testing technologies, or evaluation approaches.

Qualifications

• Strong interest in baseball analytics, data science, or applied research.
• Currently pursuing or recently completed coursework in statistics, data science, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience performing exploratory data analysis on real datasets (coursework, research, or personal projects).
• Familiarity with statistical concepts such as distributions, variability, correlations, and basic modeling.

How to apply. Email mcgowan@prepbaseball.com with the subject your “full name – Baseball Analytics internship”. In the email, please include:

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Answer the following questions:
1. What interests you about working at Prep Baseball, and how do you think data can improve how amateur players are evaluated and supported?
2. Talk about some trends or interesting research you have seen in the public space that excites you. How would you start exploring it?
3. What is one baseball question you’ve explored and researched? Describe your approach.

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Rice University – Professor in the Practice of Sport Analytics

Location: Houston, Texas

Description
The Department of Sport Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas, seeks applicants for a full-time (9-month) Professor in the Practice position to further expand the department’s Sport Analytics major. This non-tenure track position has a start date of July 1, 2026.

The primary focus of this position will be the field of sport analytics – both the performance side and the business side. Candidates should be proficient in statistics and data science including modeling, statistical learning, and statistical computing such as R, Python, Tableau, SQL, Excel, or other comparable computational and data scraping platforms. The Professor in the Practice will teach three courses each semester.

Rice University is a private, comprehensive research university located in the heart of Houston’s dynamic Museum District. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees across eight schools and has a student body of approximately 4,800 undergraduate and 4,100 graduate students. Every year since 1988, Rice has been ranked among the top 20 national universities (US News & World Report). During each of the past seven years, the Department of Sport Management was ranked #1 in “Best Colleges for Sports Management in America” by Niche. For information about the Department of Sport Management and the Sport Analytics major, visit www.sport.rice.edu.

Houston offers abundant opportunities to interact with our numerous sport organizations including seven professional teams (NBA, MLB, NFL, NWSL, MLS, LOVB, UFL). Houston is also home to the PGA’s Houston Open, LPGA’s Chevron Championship, the Insperity Invitational, the U.S. Clay Court Championships, the Texas Bowl, Rodeo Houston, and the Houston Marathon. Since 2004, Houston has twice hosted the Super Bowl as well as the NCAA Final Four three times, Copa América Centenario, the Gold Cup, the MLB All-Star Game, the NBA All-Star Game, the World Series, and the 2024 College Football Playoff Championship Game. Seven matches of the 2026 World Cup will be played in Houston.

Qualification:
Candidates must have a minimum of a Master’s degree in either Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Sport Management, Economics, or another related field by the date employment commences.

Application Instructions:
Candidates must complete applications through Interfolio, the hiring system for Rice University.

In addition to the application, the following documents are required: (1) cover letter, (2) curriculum vitae, (3) unofficial transcripts, (4) teaching philosophy statement, (5) contact information for at least three references (the references will be contacted and asked to provide a letter of recommendation only after the applicant advances beyond the initial screening by the search committee).

We welcome the fullness of diversity to Rice. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status. Also, in our candidate pools, we seek to attract greater representation of women, scholars of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and others who have historically been underrepresented; attract students from a wide range of countries and backgrounds; accelerate progress in building a faculty and staff varied in background and thought; and maintain an environment that fosters interaction and understanding within our community.

The search committee will begin reviewing applications January 12, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled.

To Apply
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Player Valuation Specialist, Pro Acquisitions

Our Vision

To become baseball’s highest performing organization — defined by our relentless pursuit of excellence, strengthened by our connection, and fueled by our positive energy.

Our Core Values

• Joy: We want to be around people that like to have fun. We remain optimistic through the ups and downs, we enjoy the process, and we share in something bigger than ourselves.
• Humility: We don’t have all the answers. We lead with curiosity, listen generously, and seek growth from every experience — especially the tough ones. We have gotten over ourselves.
• Integrity: We do the right thing, even when it’s hard. We act with honesty, accountability, and respect for our teammates and ourselves. We treat the custodian like the king.
• Competitiveness: We embrace challenges and thrive in high-stakes environments. We prepare relentlessly. We are energized by the idea of keeping score.

Position Summary
The Pro Player Valuation Specialist will play a key role in the Pro Acquisitions department, supporting the departmental focus of evaluating and recommending professional player transactions. The Pro Player Valuation Specialist will supplement and refine internal valuations of professional players, leveraging diverse information sources, resources from other departments, and baseball insights.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the in-house expert on a certain set of professional players, authoring and maintaining up-to-date reports on those players
• Brainstorm and propose actionable transaction recommendations
• Collect and apply novel information sources to improve player evaluations
• Leverage baseball familiarity to understand the relationships that shape player value
• Understand and effectively supplement automated player valuation systems
• Participate in priority setting and thought partnering for quantitative valuation research
• Partner with staff across departments to leverage insights relevant to player evaluation
• Pursue learning opportunities to further awareness of player evaluation concepts

Qualifications

• An understanding of modern approaches for evaluating baseball players, including industry trends and available information sources
• Ability to integrate information from diverse sources and communicate insights succinctly
• Passion for learning and ability to understand insights from stakeholders across the organization
• Basic awareness of quantitative modeling methods and database querying
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and highly confidential environment
• Deep alignment with and promotion of the organization’s values and vision
• Baseball experience and/or experience with player analysis preferred
• Professional experience in sports or in an analytical role preferred
• Proficiency in SQL, R, and/or Python preferred
• Ability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed

Compensation
The projected annual salary range for this position is $60,000 – $90,000 per year. Actual pay is based on several factors, including but not limited to the applicant’s: qualifications, skills, expertise, education/training, certifications, and other organization requirements. Starting salaries for new employees are frequently not at the top of the applicable salary range.

Benefits:
The Nationals offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that presently includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) and pension plan
• Access to complimentary tickets to Nationals home games
• Employee discounts
• Free onsite fitness center

Equal Opportunity Employer:
The Nationals are dedicated to offering equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

To Apply
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Houston Astros Staff Identification Program

Summary:
The Houston Astros are seeking individuals with professional baseball coaching aspirations to participate in a virtual education program with the potential for an invitation to an off-season Player Development camp at the Astros’ spring training complex in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Staff Identification program participants will be immersed and exposed to the inner workings of the Astros Player Development department and provided the opportunity to learn from current staff and coordinators. Additionally, program participants will be provided with professional development classes to further their knowledge of specific player development disciplines.

Format:

• Program will begin in April 2026
• Biweekly virtual meetings via Microsoft Teams
• Select participants may receive an invitation to an off-season Player Development camp in West Palm Beach, FL in the fall of 2026

Objectives:

• Introduce the foundational elements of the professional player development system
• Develop basic competency in pitching, hitting, and defensive instruction
• Leverage biomechanics and quantitative information to design effective practice settings
• Interpret basic baseball performance data and apply it to coaching and personnel decisions
• Learn to communicate effectively with athletes and staff from other disciplines
• Produce an individualized player plan and receive feedback from staff

Candidates should have interest in the following topics:

• Roster restrictions and decisions in minor league baseball
• Foundations of pitching, hitting, and defensive development
• Baserunning instruction
• Informed development using sports science testing, biomechanics, on-field technology, high-speed video, and in-game data as well as practice design for hitting, pitching, and defense

Requirements / Qualifications:

• Interest in on-field coaching, including throwing batting practice and hitting fungo
• Curiosity about player development, strength & conditioning, and analytics
• Some familiarity with information and/or tools used in professional baseball
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills and work ethic
• Professional or collegiate playing experience is a plus
• Proficiency in Spanish is a plus

Other Notes:

• Program will be at no cost to selected participants
• If selected to participate in person, travel and hotel expenses will be covered by the Houston Astros
• Inquiries can be sent to dl-staffid@astros.com

To Apply
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Senior Data Analyst, Baseball Data Platform

Our Baseball Data Platform team is looking for a Senior Data Analyst. The vision of the Baseball Data Platform team is to capture the story of baseball through its data. As a Senior Data Analyst at MLB, you will fulfill that vision with play-by-play and Statcast tracking data by supporting our customers, tracking and improving data quality, and leveraging data to deliver insights. You will partner closely with world-class software engineers, data scientists, and subject matter experts with the sports’ richest and most robust data at your fingertips.

Responsibilities

• Investigate potential data quality issues both proactively and responsively
• Lead large data initiatives focused on strategic R&D goals, including increasing the scalability of alerting and resolving of outlier data
• Implement high impact process changes with our support team based on internal operations data and logging
• Achieve comprehensive expertise in Baseball Data Platform. This includes knowing the schema, data lineage, and optimal usage patterns of all critical tables (e.g., pitch-by-pitch data, tracking data, weather data, etc.).
• Respond directly to inquiries from MLB clubs, broadcasters, and MLB leadership
• Define and enforce high standards for data documentation, code review, and statistical best practices within the R&D data team
• Build optimized queries and statistical reports/models, as appropriate, to identify and detect trends and present findings to MLB and Club personnel
• Design and produce reports delivering insights
• Collaborate with the Statcast engineering, product, data science, and content teams to produce the next generation of storytelling metrics
• Manage user accounts, permissions, and security protocols across key systems, ensuring compliance and data security standards are met
• Test/validate new data and metrics, and contribute input to their development
• Serve as the team’s go-to resource for complex data problems. This involves assisting teammates with debugging inefficient queries, locating obscure data points, and understanding nuanced data definitions.

Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of experience with data related to baseball
• Experience communicating professionally in a customer support role with technical and non-technical users
• Critical thinking skills and the ability to apply analytical insights to create positive change
• Self-motivated to seek out previously unidentified problems, resolve, and then scale them
• Highly collaborative in nature and team-oriented
• Proactive communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Substantive knowledge of SQL or similar database querying experience
• Experience using R and/or Python for data analysis in a professional setting
• Knowledge of data visualization software like Looker or Tableau preferred
• Familiarity with baseball tracking systems, especially Statcast, is preferred
• Familiarity with data pipeline tools and best practices for scheduled processing and ETL/ELT is a plus
• Ability and desire to travel at times for baseball events and team meetings
• A love of baseball!

Salary Range: $120,000 – $140,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.

Top MLB Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company 401K Contribution
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store |  MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance

To Apply
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Direct links to applications (please see job details below):

Tech Lead – Baseball Systems
Data Scientist – Research and Development

The Pirates Why
The Pittsburgh Pirates are a storied franchise in Major League Baseball who are reinventing themselves on every level. Boldly and relentlessly pursuing excellence by:

• purposefully developing a player and people-centered culture;
• deeply connecting with our fans, partners, and colleagues;
• passionately creating lifetime memories for generations of families and friends; and
• meaningfully impacting our communities and the game of baseball.

At the Pirates, we believe in the power of a diverse workforce and strive to create an inclusive culture centered in Passion, Innovation, Respect, Accountability, Teamwork, Empathy, and Service.

Tech Lead – Baseball Systems

Job Summary
We are looking for a Tech Lead to guide the next evolution of our internal baseball decision-making platform. This web-based system equips players, coaches, analysts, and executives with the insights they need to make better, faster decisions. You’ll be combining bleeding edge ML research with the latest in baseball statistics. You’ll pair hands-on engineering with technical leadership: setting the bar for code quality, modern architectures, and DevOps practices while mentoring a high-performing team of software and data engineers.

Responsibilities
Primary

1. Ensure every baseball systems feature is intuitive, reliable, and delivers measurable impact.
2. Design clean, scalable architectures and champion platform-wide standards that reflect the latest industry best practices.
3. Lead cloud-native engineering efforts, including containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
4. Partner with data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and front-office leaders to translate baseball strategy into resilient software and ML pipelines.
5. Model fast, high-quality execution—from building custom React components to tuning data services or ML workflows—and see initiatives through from concept to delivery.
6. Mentor engineers of varying experience levels, promoting knowledge sharing, thoughtful code review, and continuous improvement.
7. Champion an Agile product development process that balances experimentation, user feedback, and operational excellence.
8. Keep a relentless focus on features that strengthen the organization’s competitive edge.

Qualifications
Required:

1. Authorized to work lawfully in the United States.
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
3. Strong communication skills—you translate complex technical concepts for non-technical partners and build trust across departments.
4. Familiarity with building and operating ML pipelines or advanced analytics services alongside traditional application development.
5. Track record of shipping full-stack web applications in data-driven, end-user centric environments.
6. Proven success leading engineering teams, designing technical implementations, and mentoring others to deliver their best work.
7. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code).
8. Expert-level experience with React, Node.js, and Python, plus comfort moving across the stack—from front-end polish to backend services and data workflows.

Desired:

1. Hands on experience in Statistical Learning or AI Development
2. Deep curiosity about baseball and how data, analytics, and technology inform strategy and performance.

Equal Opportunity Employer
The Pittsburgh Pirates are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Data Scientist – Research and Development

Job Summary
As a Data Scientist on the Pirates Research & Development team, you will help transform a wealth of baseball data — from box scores and player tracking to video and biomechanics — into actionable insights that drive the Pirates to make better, faster acquisition, development, and deployment decisions. You will work closely with other data scientists, analysts, and software engineers across Baseball R&D as well as other stakeholders across Baseball Operations (scouts, coaches, player development, front office) to turn your statistical and machine learning models into actionable decision tools.

Responsibilities:

1. Design, build, validate, and deploy statistical and/or machine-learning models to support all facets of baseball operations, including scouting, player acquisition, player development, and on-field decision making.
2. Build tools, prototypes, and visualizations to translate complex data and model results into insights understandable by coaches, players, and decision-makers.
3. Communicate results and insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
4. Partner with data engineers to build scalable data pipelines and maintain data quality.
5. Stay abreast of new data sources, analytical techniques, and research.
6. Help the organization experiment, learn, and iterate.

Qualifications
We recognize that no candidate will meet every qualification listed below. If you are excited about this role and believe you can add value to our work, we encourage you to apply even if your experience does not align perfectly with every requirement.
Required:

1. Degree (or equivalent experience) in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Machine Learning, Biomechanics, Engineering, Operations Research).
2. Demonstrated experience applying complex statistical and/or machine learning tools to real-world problems.
3. Demonstrated proficiency in a programming language such as Python or R for data analysis and modeling.
4. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts clearly, both written and verbally.
5. Demonstrated experience collaborating with others on data science projects.
6. Authorized to work lawfully in the United States.

Desired:

1. Familiarity with advanced statistical techniques (e.g., fixed-effect / random-effect models, generalized additive models, Bayesian modeling, probabilistic programming).
2. Experience with machine-learning / deep-learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow), especially applied to high-dimensional, spatiotemporal, or biomechanical data.
3. Background in computer vision, biomechanics, sports-science, or modeling of dynamic physical systems.
4. Prior experience in sports analytics context; baseball is a plus.
5. Experience with database languages (e.g., SQL) and working with large / relational datasets.

Equal Opportunity Employer
The Pittsburgh Pirates are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

To Apply
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