Job Details Description Department: Baseball Operations, Research and Development Supervisor: Assistant General Manager Classification: Full-time/Exempt The Houston Astros are seeking a Director for the team’s Baseball Research and Development group. The Director will lead a cross-functional agile team to conduct research and develop methods that encourage the effective understanding and application of information throughout Baseball…
Patrick: Comrades, I assemble you once again to fulfill your divine mandate: to assess and rank the aesthetic value of various early nineties baseball cards. Last year, as you may recall, we explored the year 1990, an era of reckless youth and posturing. Moving forward three years, things have changed. Still riding the hobby’s bubble,…
Patrick: Thank you all for convening on such short notice, but we have an important issue to attend to. It seems that one David Bote hit a golden ultimate game-winning walk-off supernatural superserious grand slam and then later apologized for flipping his bat on the play. Before we judge Bote on his individual crimes, however, allow…
The Milwaukee Brewers are looking for great candidates for two positions. To apply, please use the “Brewers site” links: Data Engineer- Baseball Operations: Brewers site Description Developer – Baseball Systems: Brewers site Description Data Engineer- Baseball Operations with Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, LLC in Milwaukee, WI Job Description: Summary The Data Engineer will work closely with the Data Architect…
Welcome to the second annual Short Relief Memorial Day extravaganza. Last year, we took the holiday as an opportunity to discuss our favorite baseball commercials. This year, our focus moves to the big screen: mostly films, with the occasional television show thrown in. There’s no shortage of material, both published and slurred drunkenly on a…
Yesterday the BP staff made their traditional predictions: standings, awards, victors. It’s a pleasant exercise, certainly, but you don’t come to Baseball Prospectus to learn generic information like “who will win.” You want the hard truth, and we here at Short Relief are there to provide. Said prognostications come in two flavors: answers for general…
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Photo credit: © Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports January is a month for looking ahead: signing up for gym memberships, counting down the days until men play catch in uniforms, and combing the prospect lists, imagining the best possible tomorrow. And as the game develops and refines its approach to building baseball teams, observers have made their…
As 2017 has drawn to a close, we’ve used the holiday week to highlight some of the quality work of our writers and staff at Baseball Prospectus. In that same vein, the new year is a perfect to recognize the great work done at our local affiliate sites as well. As you celebrate the final…
Last week, the BP Prospect Team worked long and hard to bring you the excellent Midseason Top 50 Prospect List. This week we’re doing something similar, and yet wholly dissimilar: ranking the top 50 prospect busts of the draft era, for your amusement. As we begin, hand in hand, through this journey of disappointment, please…
Patrick: The time has come for us, the arbiters of taste, to establish for history the relative merit of the design of 1990 baseball cards. I’ve selected the major card companies and a few oddballs and mandated that the Short Relief crew gaze upon them, welcome each individually into their hearts, and pass judgment. (Please…
photo: Keith Allison Control Rachael McDaniel When I was born, Roy Halladay was 20. Now I am 20, and Roy Halladay is dead. *** I wrote a lot as a little kid. I was overly energetic, frequently bored, always bouncing around, and writing was one of the ways I could expend that energy without hurting…