FanGraphs is now accepting purposes to hitch our workers as a full-time prospect author.
The prospect author will work with lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen and different members of the FanGraphs workers to supply organizational high prospect lists, beginner draft protection, and different minor league and prospect-related content material. A profitable candidate will be capable to consider prospects utilizing in-person appears to be like, video scouting, and knowledge. Familiarity and luxury with superior statistics is a requirement, as is prior scouting or prospect analysis expertise and a agency understanding of the minor league panorama. Simply as importantly, we’re searching for a author who can generate their very own concepts, produce vigorous and fascinating prose, and element what makes a prospect good (or unhealthy) in a manner that’s instructional, correct, and enjoyable to learn.
Key Obligations
- Produce, each independently and in collaboration with different prospect writers, high prospect lists, that are comprised of roughly 1,500 scouting studies yearly
- Produce written studies and participant pref lists primarily based on in-person appears to be like and video scouting, in addition to related knowledge
- Contribute to the location’s beginner draft protection
- Produce different prospect-related content material all year long
- Help in sustaining The Board
- Help in commerce deadline and transaction protection
- Different writing as assigned
Expertise
Minimal Expertise:
- Prior scouting or prospect analysis expertise
- Deep familiarity with trendy baseball statistics and the minor league and beginner baseball landscapes
- Familiarity with the scouting scale
- A eager eye for element, and excessive requirements for accuracy and readability
- Capability to work some weekends and evenings as required by the baseball calendar and information cycle. This place will even require periodic journey to video games, as effectively key scouting occasions and showcases.
- Capability to domesticate scouting and different baseball operations contacts to supply pertinent data and knowledge
- Primary competency and familiarity with G-suite, electronic mail, and Slack
- School diploma or equal expertise
Desired Expertise:
- Familiarity with SynergySports or different video scouting platforms
- Familiarity with the SABR model information
- Expertise with multimedia manufacturing/enhancing
- Expertise working inside a WordPress CMS
This can be a full-time, salaried place with advantages. As FanGraphs is a web-based firm, relocation shouldn’t be required; this job will be accomplished from most geographic places, so long as you have got dependable web entry and are prepared to work throughout the hours that readers in america are awake, although proximity to minor league associates or massive convention school services is a robust plus. Some weekend and night work might be required, as will periodic journey. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds and identities to use.
If you happen to assume you’d be a great match for the location, please ship us an electronic mail at needed@fangraphs.com along with your software supplies, utilizing the topic line “FanGraphs Full-Time Prospect Author – 2025”. The topic line is vital, because it helps us hold all the purposes organized and ensures that yours doesn’t slip by way of the cracks. When making use of, please embody:
- A present résumé
- Pattern studies evaluating two hitter and two pitcher prospects. You could choose the gamers, however no less than two of them needs to be within the decrease ranges of the minors. These evaluations ought to approximate the type of studies you would possibly see on a FanGraphs high prospect checklist, full with related software grades. For the needs of this train, it’s possible you’ll use a scouting scale apart from Future Worth (i.e. B2, C1, and many others) if that’s what you’re most accustomed to. Please describe the sources of knowledge you used when compiling the studies.
- Different samples of your written work you’re feeling would give us a way of your voice and perspective on the sport
Please you’ll want to ship us your software by Wednesday, September 17. The exact begin date of the place is versatile, however our purpose is to have somebody employed and onboarded in time to help with our subsequent prospect checklist cycle, which begins this fall. We will’t promise to reply to each software we obtain, however we are going to be sure that each applicant receives severe consideration.
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