JotCast | 2017 ALCS Game 7 Live Blog

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Dave Cameron

11:09

They've had a huge department forever.

11:10

We don't know enough to rank those departments at this point, but all three use them extensively.

Stephen Loftus

11:10

The Yankees don't get enough credit for their department.

Nick

11:10

Turns out rich teams can hire a lot of people

Straight Cash(man)

11:10

I'm trying to convince myself it's alright, I didn't expect the Yankees to get this far, good sign for the future.. not working

Dave Cameron

11:10

Your future is bright.

Baseballjunkie

11:10

Who would you rather have for whole career, Correa or Seager?

Dave Cameron

11:10

Correa

JoeZ

11:10

Astros analytics head Mejdal a few years ago told me that it was getting impossible to compete with the Yankees because they could outspend both on the player side and on the analytics

Dave Cameron

11:11

It's not true yet.

We might be getting there though.

Nick

11:11

If one were to write articles on FG community that you considered good enough quality that they would be worth publishing on FG itself, how long/how many articles would one have to do that for before they were considered to get hired? Or would you value paid work on another platform more?

Dave Cameron

11:11

August wrote like 4 or 5 community posts before I was like "you're hired"

SubmarineSailor

11:12

How close are you on Correa/Seager?

Dave Cameron

11:12

Close-ish. Maybe 65/35.

hscer

11:12

damn, i'm in the double digits and no one's talked to me yet

Dave Cameron

11:12

August was probably not normal.

Straight Cash(man)

11:13

I don't understand how a team could 'outspend' others on analytics, these people aren't paid 7 figure salaries.. all MLB owners can afford top notch analytics

Dave Cameron

11:13

The type of people getting hired in MLB R&D departments is changing.

They're competing with Google/Apple/Facebook now.

Guys who know Machine Learning don't take 40K

Jeff

11:14

He basically wrote three articles for real fangraphs before the brewers were like "you're hired"

Dave Cameron

11:14

Nah, we had August for a year, then he went to MLB.com, then came back for another year.

But he was always too good to keep.

Guest

11:14

What about women who know Machine Learning?

Dave Cameron

11:14

Poor phrasing on my part.

Korean

11:15

I work as a recruiter- the guys with MLB baseball operations on their resume used to be guys who played, but now are very impressive STEM doods from top top schools who will command 6 figures straight out of undergrad regardless

Dave Cameron

11:15

Yup.

Stephen Loftus

11:15

Pretty much

Dave Cameron

11:15

Okay, two outs to go.

LMJ has been something else.

Morton got a little lucky. McCullers has been lights out.

Korean

11:16

McCullers vs. Hill - Curveball galore?

Dave Cameron

11:16

Hill is using them less lately.

Six Ten

11:16

How much do teams care that an analyst like August is a also really good writer?

Dave Cameron

11:16

Communication skills a real plus. Writing less so.

John

11:17

If LMJ finishes this he’d qualify for the save. One of the best saves ever, considering context, amirite?

Dave Cameron

11:17

Yeah

Curve, K.

Rinse, repeat.

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