THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

It works too.  Lord knows that’s the only explanation for how little old me made the final group of candidates for that Indians internship.

This one, however, is well beyond my abilities, with regard to the programming.

I might borderline qualify.  I’ve got the retrosheet/ Lahman database down fine, but while I’ve got some C / Java experience, its pretty limited.  I’m sure there will be candidates who can demonstrate more knowledge.

I’m pretty sure the Yankees aren’t going to offer a 6 figure starting salary to an intern, which is about the minimum I’d need to move my family to New York.

I’m not sure an “intern” pays anything at all.  Does it?  A team would be better off splitting that job into at least two persons.  One to do the IT stuff and one as a sabermetrician.  Trying to roll both into one is probably going to land them a weak analyst.

In most states (or is it dependent on the industry?  I forget...), internships have to include some form of compensation so as to not be a way to subvert labor laws and get free labor.  Most of the time, this is done by giving academic credit.  In my experience, if a listing doesn’t expressly note that academic credit is required, it is likely a paid internship.

Most of the player development internships within MLB are paid.  It’s usually something like $1,000 to $2,000 a month, which sounds okay until you realize how many hours they want you to put in.

Remember, you’d have to look in the mirror every day and say to yourself: “I work for the New York Yankees.” Typing those words right there made me shiver.

I don’t think you can get a studio in New York for 1-2K per month.  Best of luck to a smart kid fresh out of college whose parents live in the area.  Not quite the job for a 36 year old with a family to support.

Wouldn’t they (yanks) lean more to the IT side of the job than the sabr side.  I can’t imagine a team truly wanting to hear what came about. 

Just curious, are teams doing more of this as a CYA kind of move?  Do they really want to go sabermetric or are they just filling these positions to say “hey, we look into everything”.

I’m a fan of the Reds and that’s Wayne Krivisky’s mantra about all things new.  No real commitment to anything, but he has his backside covered if someone makes an issue out of it.