Fangraphs: Job Posting

[weams]

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/job-posting-trackman-calibration-specialist/

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TrackMan A/S is a fast-growing sports technology company that develops, manufactures and sells 3D ball flight measurement systems for a variety of sports. Originally developed for golf, TrackMan now enjoys a market leader position in several sports disciplines such as baseball in measuring and delivering real-time sports data.

 

Your key responsibilities include:

• Coordinate and perform field activities at a variety of baseball facilities
• Perform on-field calibration of TrackMan systems
• Act as TrackMan’s face-to-face representative with the end customer
• Provide basic technical system support, answering phone calls and logging issues
• Track and log all activities through detail-oriented ticketing system
• 70%+ travel

 

 

[weams]

To apply, or if you have any questions, please contact Matt Pullman at mpu@trackman.com. Start date is as soon as possible, and interviews take place on an ongoing basis.

[Can_of_corn]

Fangraphs should be looking for a couple folks.  Haven't they been losing writers to teams?

[weams]

4 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Fangraphs should be looking for a couple folks.  Haven't they been losing writers to teams?

Absolutely. The quality of the work done at many of those sites has dropped dramatically. Every team is saying "We have to get one of them there Saber guys."

[weams]

4 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Fangraphs should be looking for a couple folks.  Haven't they been losing writers to teams?

[Luke-OH]

2 hours ago, weams said:

Absolutely. The quality of the work done at many of those sites has dropped dramatically. Every team is saying "We have to get one of them there Saber guys."

I think teams have plenty of analytics/numbers guys, they hire Saber writers to help as translators between the data scientists and the on the field staff and vice versa.

 

Kiley McDaniel is back at fangraphs after a MLB job and he has a ton of inside insight into how teams work.

Jeff Sullivan remains one of the more interesting baseball writers around. I always greatly preferred him over Dave Cameron anyways.