Terrific.

And he works for the Mets! Let's hope he's Ricco's #1 leutenant...

And he works for the Mets!

As I have said before, the Mets have one of the best core groups of statistically-oriented folks in their front office of any major league team.

-- MWE

Worlds collide... JSM + Primer. My son was born in May, so I wasn't able to make it this year... I'm assuming that this was in the ASA Section on Sports Statistics (or whatever it's called these days).

As a side note, Shane Jensen's work in Annals of Applied Statistics isn't just good baseball analysis, it's good statistical work period. I was glad to see someone who knows baseball as well as Shane get a proper paper into a good statistics journal. You typically either have very good baseball quantitative analysts who don't do things up to the "statistical methodological threshold" in order to get into a top stats journal or you have someone (I won't mention any names) publishing somewhat useless methodological work in a top stats journal making rookie mistakes with respect to the "real-world" baseball aspects. Shane's paper is one of my favorite work-related papers that I read last year (and not just because it's about baseball).

BTW, the presentation slides are great... I <3 Beamer + LaTeX + R.

My son was born in May, so I wasn't able to make it this year

Dang! We could have met in person! I was able to meet up with Mitch Watnik on Sunday AM before I went home from SABR; the JSM hotel was about three or four blocks from the SABR hotel.

-- MWE