Driveline Baseball Sabermetrician / Performance Analyst

Location: Kent, WA (remote work accepted)

Contract-Based, 1099



Driveline Baseball is the leading organization in the field of developing advanced pitcher training methods, techniques, and equipment. We contract with multiple MLB teams on the amateur draft, player development projects, and other miscellaneous situations. We also train 50+ professional pitchers and work with 20+ NCAA D1 colleges to develop the best pitchers in the world.



We are in need of an at-will, per-project-billed Performance Analyst who is well-versed in the field of baseball sabermetrics to provide tooling and support to our professional pitchers as well as guide the overall mission of the on-floor training staff.



Today's public baseball landscape focuses primarily on scouting-related endeavors, such as predicting ERA, defensive shifts, or other things that impact the game from a managerial or player selective point of view. While interesting, these projects have little to no adaptability for the individual athlete who wants to use advanced metrics to improve their game.



That's why we need you.



You will work with the Research and Development team (lead: Kyle Boddy) at Driveline Baseball to develop actionable metrics that can not only tell the player more about themselves, but give Driveline Baseball a clear path to improve these metrics for that player and all others who train at the facility.



In today's "quantified self" movement, baseball sorely lacks a spokesperson to help develop players through an analytical lens. We're hoping that person is you.



You'll learn more about baseball player development in six months than you've learned in the last six years. You will come to understand how players truly view statistics and help design the framework for how we can turn better information into actionable data for not only players, but coaches and front office staff.



Apply today. The field of Player Development in baseball is 30 years behind both scouting and traditional sabermetrics. With your help, we'll push it forward.



What We Are Looking For:

-Excellent written and verbal skills. Should be able to comfortably interact with the lead of R&D with extensive software development experience as well as the professional baseball player who merely wants to dominate his sport.

-A mindset for growth and learning. What is making you better?

-Always organized.

-Intermediate to advanced user of Microsoft Excel

-Intermediate to advanced analyst with one or more relational database management systems (we are heavily-biased towards free/open source, so preference is for MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres)

-Intermediate to advanced proficiency with one or more modern scripting languages (the two most commonly used languages at Driveline are PHP and Python)

-Strong with documentation and presentation of ideas to laypersons



Optional, but strongly preferred:

-Intermediate to advanced user of one or more advanced statistical packages (given our free/open source direction, R is preferred)

-Intermediate to advanced architect of one or more RDBMS packages



Optional and nice to see:

-Previous work experience in an MLB organization

-Fluency in Spanish



This is a remote position, but applicants local to Seattle, WA will have travel and expenses covered to meet in person on a semi-regular basis.



APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON MARCH 14th FOR FURTHER REVIEW.



Driveline Baseball is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate in any employer/employee relations based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable discrimination laws.

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