Position: Associate, Professional Scouting

Job Description:

Summary:
The New York Mets are seeking to hire an Associate, Professional Scouting for an opportunity to help support the department’s existing functions and growth initiatives across a variety of domains. This Associate will be exposed to all facets of the department during both the regular season and offseason. Individuals from all backgrounds and experiences that meet the below qualifications are encouraged to apply.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide departmental support for key transactional decisions and dates, including but not limited to the Trade Deadline, Waiver Claims, Free Agent Signings, and the Rule 5 Draft
• Monitor affiliated professional player universe to assist in formulation and maintenance of target lists centered around potential in-season and offseason acquisitions; provide frequent updates on relevant players throughout the season and offseason
• Undertake research studies and look-back analyses on topics pertaining to the Professional Scouting landscape
• Build relationships with Pro Scouts, other members of the Baseball Operations department, and the baseball community; serve as point of contact for certain administrative and logistical departmental needs
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned to support the Pro Scouting department and broader Baseball Operations department

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or Spring 2021 graduation required
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Basic to intermediate proficiency in SQL
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated passion for baseball with understanding of latest baseball rules and landscape trends (pertaining to player evaluation, analytics, and roster construction)
• Strong attention to detail
• Growth mindset with an eagerness to learn and willingness to think creatively
• Ability to work long hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays

Preferred:

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and database manipulation
• Experience with programming languages used for data analysis and visualization, ideally Python and/or R
• Intermediate Spanish-speaking ability
• Baseball/softball playing background or related work experience is preferred, but not required; outside career experience that can provide value to the department in other ways is also a plus
• Experience and familiarity with baseball-specific technology and platforms (including Trackman, Hawk-Eye, Synergy, etc.)

To Apply:
Please follow this link to apply.

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Last year, with no major leagues in sight, I decided to run an experiment: what if the readers of this website crowd-managed a team? We were assigned the Brewers in an online Out of the Park Baseball league and we spent 2020 striving and failing to make the playoffs. Despite that, the exercise was a ton of fun for me, and hopefully for the audience of crowd-managers as well.

Real baseball has returned. Because more is always more, however, the OOTP league is still running. Last year, the Brewers fell victim to the miracle Pirates, who blew away the NL Central en route to the World Series. It’s a topsy-turvy world in OOTP, and our decisions couldn’t outweigh some bad injury luck and those indefatigable Pittsburghers.

This time, the Brewers are headed into the year with a new-look infield. Nick Allen, gloveman extraordinaire, is the newest Milwaukee infielder. He joins Scott Kingery on the left side of the infield. That pushes Luis Urías to second base, a defense-first alignment that ended with a move to first base for Keston Hiura — sometimes art imitates life. Read the rest of this entry »

Join me and Kevin Goldstein this afternoon at 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM ET for another Prospect Film Session live on the FanGraphs homepage, or our Twitch channel. We’ll be discussing my looks at the unique co-op scrimmages going on in Arizona and the prospects therein, including Jarred Kelenic, Erick Pena, Davis Wendzel, Nick Loftin, the prospects I wrote about here, and more. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the past week, we’ve added xBA, xSLG, xwOBA and xERA to our player pages. Now these Statcast stats are on the leaderboards, too!

One important thing to note is that these stats are only available as full-season for the time being. That means there are a number of instances where they will be blank to avoid presenting inaccurate data. Here are the main cases for which these stats will not display:

• If a player changes teams mid-season, and you want to see these stats for his time with only one of his teams.
• If a pitchers pitches as both a starter and reliever, and you want to see these stats for his innings or games in only one of those roles.
• Anything that isn’t player-specific, such as team totals or league totals.
• Multi-season aggregates.

Position: Sport Science Analyst

Summary: The Texas Rangers are seeking a candidate to provide research and analysis through statistical modeling, visualizations, and other assigned projects. This individual will support the Sport Science staff as well as other branches of the Performance, Player Development, and Baseball Operations staffs. This position is based in Arlington, TX.

Basic Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work with Sport Science, S&C, Medical, Nutrition, and Mental Skills departments to aide in driving Performance initiatives through integration of statistical analysis.
• Utilize Athlete Management System to effectively display data and produce reports (written and visual) for the Performance Group, Field Staff, and Front Office.
• Conduct statistical analysis, quantitative research, and data modeling on motion capture data and other information related to biomechanics.

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We’ve added Statcast’s xERA to our player pages, in the same way we added xwOBA, xBA, and xSLG last week!

xERA uses exit velocity, launch angle, and sprint speed on “topped” or “weakly hit” balls to model what a player’s ERA would look like based on the underlying characteristics of the balls in play.

Additionally, xERA has been added to the player page dashboard, and EV has been replaced with average fastball velocity (vFA).

We’ve added a handful of new stats to the site. These include the following Statcast stats, which can be found in the Statcast section of the player pages:

• xwOBA: Expected weighted on-base average
• xBA: Expected batting average
• xSLG: Expected slugging percentage

You can read all about the Statcast “x stats” in the MLB glossary: xwOBA, xBA, xSLG.

These all take exit velocity, launch angle, and sprint speed on “topped” or “weakly hit” balls to model what a player’s corresponding wOBA, AVG, or SLG would look like based on the underlying characteristics of the balls in play. Read the rest of this entry »

The New FanGraphs Mug is once again available for pre-order after we sold out of our initial run. These mugs will start shipping on April 2nd.

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There have been a few updates in our ZiPS projections section.

First, we have updated the ZiPS projections for the roughly 300 players in the minor leagues who are in different organizations now than they were when the first run of ZiPS projections went live about six weeks ago. Free agents are still projected as if they were on their most recent team.

Second, the ZiPS three-year projections are now live for everyone in baseball. As usual, these are playing-time agnostic projections; I’m far more interested in a complex set of algorithms estimating a player’s performance than I am in team usage. A projection for a career minor-leaguer of .000/.000/.000 conveys little useful information. I find knowing how a player may perform for a team to have greater utility than a model predicting who front offices and managers will like. ZiPS assumes offensive levels similar to those of the last four years with the most recent years weighted more heavily, and is using the same estimated level of offense for 2022 and 2023 that it does for 2021. It’d be nice to know what effects changes in the ball will have, but as that’s mostly guesswork, ZiPS takes a neutral stance.

The full-season ZiPS comes in two flavors. New this year arethe ZiPS DC projections, which are ZiPS projections already pro-rated for the playing time used in our Depth Charts. Many of you were already manually adjusting ZiPS in this manner, but now it will be done automatically, which should aid in using ZiPS for fantasy purposes.

There are more ZiPS developments in the works. Let us know in the comments what things you’d like to see that I haven’t talked about yet! Our readers frequently have ideas I never thought to do myself and ZiPS has a great deal of flexibility in what it can be manipulated into doing.

Position: Research & Development Analyst (Computer Vision)

Position Overview:
Sports Info Solutions (SIS) is looking for candidates to fill a full-time position in their R&D Department. The R&D Analyst will work either remotely or out of the SIS office near Allentown, PA, and they will contribute as a member of the SIS R&D team with a focus on Computer Vision-related projects.

Responsibilities:

• Help drive the development of SIS’s computer vision systems across football, baseball, and basketball.
• Improve efficiency of internal workflows by leveraging CV.
• Use CV capabilities to design and develop new products and/or datasets that support the needs of front office and field personnel.
• Perform modeling and research using SIS’s internal baseball and football databases as well as other notable data sets (Statcast, NextGen, etc).
• Collaborate with colleagues to help illuminate the value of SIS’s analytical products to prospective clients.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Experience working on computer vision and machine learning projects involving video.
• Familiarity with contemporary baseball/football/basketball analytics.
• Previous experience with Python or other relevant programming languages.

To Apply:
Follow this link below to submit your application.

Sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Sports Info Solutions uses E-Verify and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

SIS is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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