Position: Full Stack Software Engineer (Baseball Data)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Major League Baseball is looking for experienced Software Engineers that are passionate about building new technologies for the baseball industry. Launched in 2001 as the tech arm of Major League Baseball, MLBAM is now a leading authority in real-time sports data processing, distribution and analysis.

The Baseball Data team is the central data hub for MLB. Using cutting edge technology, their data is consumed by fans, broadcasters, stadiums, and MLB teams. Their team’s primary product line is MLB.com Gameday, Statcast and Pitchcast. You can find more information about Statcast here. Read the rest of this entry »

Position: Data Engineer

Department: Baseball Operations

Reports To: Director, Baseball Systems

Job Summary:
The Data Engineer is primarily responsible for designing and developing data pipelines and helping to ensure high quality data is readily available to the Padres R&D and Systems teams. The role is responsible for working internally to optimize proprietary data as well as helping to build out the ingestion of third party data from a variety of vendors. Read the rest of this entry »

Position: Associate Data Quality Analyst

MLB is looking to fill the full-time position of Associate Data Quality Analyst. As an Associate Data Quality Analyst at MLB, you will be part of the Baseball Data Quality team, which is responsible for ensuring the utmost integrity of the information maintained and supported by the broader Baseball Data team, including the Statcast ecosystem, and communicating with various stakeholders, including MLB Clubs, broadcast partners, and web/mobile properties. In this role you will partner closely with world-class talent across technical, advanced analytics, and subject matter experts to improve MLB’s operations and products. You will have some of the richest and most robust data at your fingertips and an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate triage during in-game support shifts (especially nights and weekends) among engineering, product, and infrastructure groups for many levels of baseball.
• Respond directly to inquiries from MLB clubs, broadcasters, and MLB leadership.
• Compose and edit documentation and communicate best practices to consumers with varying technical backgrounds.
• Maintain status reports and issue logs for internal monitoring and external transparency
• Query MLB’s database and build statistical reports/models as appropriate to identify and detect trends.
• Maintain consistent day-to-day data completeness and data/video clean-up and recovery.
• Correspond with technical and operational stakeholders to identify incident causes and preventative measures.
• Identify ways to optimize support processes and make recommendations to MLB leadership for consideration.
• Contribute to the testing and validation of new data, analyses, and solutions.

Required Skills & Experience

• Ability to communicate professionally in a customer support role with technical and non-technical users via phone, email, blog, instant message, and other media.
• Familiarity with baseball tracking systems, especially MLB’s Statcast platform.
• Critical thinking skills – the ability to apply analytical insights to improve data and solve problems in a fast-paced environment.
• Attention to detail and dedication to excellence.
• Flexibility to work nights, weekends, and holidays, especially during baseball season.
• Baseball fan.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience within the baseball industry analyzing and/or disseminating baseball tracking data.
• Demonstrated commitment to accuracy, precision, and completeness.
• Knowledge of SQL or similar database querying experience.
• Familiarity with R and/or Python for Data Science.

To Apply
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Position: Baseball Operations Software Engineer

Location: Detroit, MI

Job Summary:
The Detroit Tigers are currently seeking a Software Engineer. This role will be responsible for development and maintenance of software projects within Baseball Operations. This position will report to the Sr. Software Engineer, Baseball Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform general development and maintenance tasks for the upkeep of internally developed software products.
• Use modern software techniques and best practices in all parts of the software life cycle.
• Support the integration of baseball analysis into the Tigers’ proprietary tools and applications.
• Assist with the design and development of new software products.
• Other projects as directed by the Baseball Operations leadership team.

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Position: Sports Biomechanics Analyst

Location: Glendale, AZ
Duration: Full-Time

Position Overview:
The Chicago White Sox are searching for a passionate individual to expand their biomechanics and sports science capabilities. As a Sports Biomechanics Analyst, you will lead and coordinate the collection and analysis of motion capture data at the team’s Glendale pitching and hitting labs while also integrating markerless and wearable technologies and data sets. The analyst will work closely with the player development, sports science, and R&D teams to develop actionable training and insights to accelerate development paths, achieve peak performance, and reduce injury risk. Read the rest of this entry »

Position: Atlanta Braves Major League Operations Analyst (Full-Time and Trainee Positions)

Location: Atlanta, GA

Description:
The Major League Operations Analyst 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 building tools and infrastructure, using data analysis to provide insight into player evaluation, performance projection, roster construction, and all other facets of baseball operations decision-making, with emphasis on different sub-departments depending on the baseball calendar and needs of the department. The position will report to the Director of Baseball Operations. Read the rest of this entry »

Some teams have an instantly identifiable “type.” You know what I’m talking about: the Cardinals and scrappy-but-under-tooled infielders, the Cubs with pitchers who don’t crack 90 mph, and the Rays with platoon-ish hitters who would be stretched as everyday players. Today, the Rays got their man again — Jordan Luplow, who is exactly the kind of hitter that always seems to be lurking on Tampa Bay’s bench, waiting to ruin some poor lefty reliever’s day.

The Rays are heavier on lefties than they’d probably like this year; Kevin Kiermaier, Austin Meadows, and Brett Phillips have all gotten plenty of run in the outfield, and only Meadows is someone I’d like to run out there against same-handed pitching. In all, Kiermaier and Phillips have 152 plate appearances against lefties, where they’ve put up a combined 27 wRC+. Not great, Bob.

In 334 career plate appearances against lefties, Luplow is hitting .251/.371/.556, good for a 143 wRC+. You can’t take platoon splits at face value with such a small sample, but he truly looks like a lefty masher; he walks nearly twice as often against lefties as compared to righties, strikes out less, and hits for a ton of power, with an enviable 11.5% barrel rate against southpaws (7.9% against righties). He also smashes four-seam fastballs, and there are lefty fastballs worth smashing in the AL playoff chase. Read the rest of this entry »

Join me tomorrow at 1:30 PM ET/10:30 AM PT for my latest Prospect Film Session in which I screen, discuss, and analyze my recently shot prospect video live on the FanGraphs Twitch channel. This episode, we’ll be looking at my trip to the Futures Game, recent travel to the Mid-Atlantic, and the Arizona Complex League.

We’ll watch a number of very famous prospects and also study some guys who viewers will be wholly unfamiliar with, emerging from the obscurity of the desert backfields. The show can be found live on the FanGraphs homepage as well as on Twitch. Join me tomorrow for a quiet, lo-fi stream with focus on largely unedited footage.

Job Title: Software Developer, Baseball Systems

Department: Baseball Operations: Research & Development – Baseball Systems
Reports To: Director, Engineering – Baseball Systems
Location: Chicago, IL

Role:
The Chicago Cubs Baseball Systems Department is seeking to fill a Baseball Systems Software Developer position. This role will focus on the development and maintenance of the Chicago Cubs baseball information system data warehouse, including creating web interfaces and web tools for the user interface; building automated ETL processes which feed it; maintaining back-end databases; and troubleshooting data sources issues as needed. This role will collaborate with software developers and data analysts in their use of the Cubs’ data warehouse and coordinate plans for database growth and will also review and recommend new technologies for use by Baseball Operations department. Read the rest of this entry »

Please note, this posting contains two positions.

Position: Baseball Operations Analyst

Location: Chicago, IL

Description:
The Chicago White Sox seek a passionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated individual with a desire to work in Baseball Operations. The position will focus primarily on the numerical methods that drive Baseball Analytics, however there will be additional exposure to all facets of baseball operations. This position will report to the Director of Baseball Analytics. Read the rest of this entry »