Eli Ben-Porat
Eli Ben-Porat is a Senior Manager of Reporting & Analytics for Rogers Communications Inc.; the views and opinions expressed herein are his own. Eli believes that most, if not all, data challenges can be tackled with the combination of Alteryx for data blending and Tableau for data visualization. He is also currently working on a unique, Euro-style, genre-breaking, pure strategy, board game of area control and combat, without the random vagaries of dice.
Gary Bolick
Born and raised in NC, Gary Bolick has two novels published: A Snowman in July and Angel’s Oracle. A lifelong baseball fan, Gary once met and talked to Ted Williams on a flight from Flint, MI to Dayton, OH.
Carson Cistulli
Carson Cistulli lives in Maine with his wife and dog and son.
Mary Craig
Mary is a PhD student in political theory and American political thought, and is an avid consumer of baseball history. She writes about baseball from a social and historical viewpoint and has had her work published at The Hardball Times and Baseball Prospectus, among others.
Jared Cross
Jared Cross is a co-creator of Steamer Projections and consults for a Major League team. In real life, he teaches science and mathematics in Brooklyn.
Britni de la Cretaz
Britni de la Cretaz is freelance writer and tortured Marlins fan. She is the sports and culture columnist at Bitch Media and her work on racism in Boston sports media won the Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Journalism in 2017 from the Transformative Culture Project. Her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, espnW, Vogue, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @britnidlc.
Chris Davies
Chris Davies is a father and husband from central Illinois. For work, Chris edits scientific publications and writes as much as he can, frequently interrupted by spending time outdoors or playing music. A fan of Cleveland sports and the University of Illinois, he is perpetually recovering from sports heartbreak.
Joe Distelheim
Joe Distelheim is a retired newspaper editor. For many years, he has endeavored to free The Hardball Times from cliché clutter, syntax scramble and grammar garble. Like the ’62 Mets, he hasn’t won ’em all. He worries about, and fears for, a free and vigorous press, the Chicago Cubs’ bullpen and the proper use of the English language.
Adam Dorhauer
Adam Dorhauer grew up a third-generation Cardinals fan in Missouri, and now lives in Ohio. His published writings on baseball include poetry, short fiction, historical research, statistical analysis, and general commentary.
Lance Feyh
Lance Feyh lives and writes in the Ozarks, where he enjoys indoor plumbing. Feyh is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is currently finishing a novel.
Harry Hamel
Born with the spirit of a center fielder but the arm of a second baseman, Harry W. Hamel has enjoyed his life as a utility player, filling in as needed, and moving the runner along. He enjoys golf, crossword puzzles, Pink Floyd, and coffee cake.
Rachel Heacock
Rachel Heacock is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in Applied Statistics. She has contributed to both Beyond the Box Score and The Hardball Times. Following an internship with the Orioles, Rachel joined the Minnesota Twins for an internship in Baseball Operations.
David Kagan
David Kagan earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He became a faculty member at California State University, Chico in the same year. Kagan has been publishing articles about the physics and baseball for almost 30 years. He has been a regular contributor to The Hardball Times for four years. Feel free to visit his baseball website or his professional website.
Zach Kram
Zach Kram is an editorial assistant for The Ringer. On a road trip in college, he acquiesced to the temptation advertised by highway signs and visited the world’s largest wind chime in Casey, Illinois.
Jason Linden
Jason Linden writes and edits from his house in Louisville, KY, where he’s also an English teacher. He grew up following the Reds and will fight you if you say something bad about Joey Votto. His novel, When the Sparrow Sings, is knocking around out there somewhere.
Eric Longenhagen
Eric Longenhagen is FanGraphs’ Lead Prospect Analyst. He was part of MLB draft and prospect coverage at ESPN.com from 2015-2017 and continues to contribute there on occasion. His work has appeared at Sports on Earth, CrashburnAlley and elsewhere. Eric lives in Tempe, AZ and is originally from Catasauqua, PA.
Ashley Memory
Ashley Memory lives with her husband, the sculptor Johnpaul Harris, in southwestern Randolph County, North Carolina. Her poetry and Pushcart-Prize nominated prose have appeared in The Naugatuck River Review, The Thomas Wolfe Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and The Gyroscope Review. She is the author of Naked and Hungry, a darkly humorous suspense novel published in November 2011 by Ingalls Publishing Group and named one of the season’s most promising debut novels by Library magazine.
Isabelle Minasian
Isabelle Minasian is an editor at Lookout Landing, and a contributor for La Vida Baseball and The Hardball Times. She lives too far away to hear Nelson Cruz’s homeruns, but close enough to frequently eat the garlic fries at Safeco Field. Isabelle enjoys long walks to first base, and Latin walk-up music.
Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell created the KATOH projection system and writes about prospects at FanGraphs. In real life, he lives in New York City with his fiancé, Lexi, and works in economic development.
Jack Moore
Jack Moore is a freelance sports writer living in Minneapolis. Find him in the esports world playing as Jackie Peanuts.
Dustin Nosler
Dustin Nosler is an editor/contributor at The Hardball Times. He is a co-founder of Dodgers Digest and co-hosts a weekly podcast called Dugout Blues.
Kiri Oler
Kiri submitted her piece for the Annual just before accepting an analytics position with the Minnesota Twins. She received a bachelor’s degree in math and English from the University of Idaho, and a master’s degree in information security from Johns Hopkins University. She has professional experience in research, data science, and teaching. She currently lives in Minneapolis, and yes, as you read this, she is quite cold.
John Paschal
A former river guide, ranch hand, farm hand and, most unlikely, editor-in-chief of a magazine, John Paschal has written sports and opinion for The Dallas Morning News, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and other dead-tree publications. Online, he has written for The Hardball Times, FanGraphs, NotGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, Deadspin and The Good Men Project. He lives in Austin with his wife, Syboney, and believes he still has time to reach the majors.
Andrew Perpetua
Andrew is the creator of xStats.org and a regular contributor to Rotographs. He focuses on Statcast research, and you can follow him on twitter @AndrewPerpetua.
Ryan Pollack
Ryan Pollack contributes to The Hardball Times from sunny Austin, TX. A die-hard Orioles fan, his work has previously appeared at Camden Chat and Camden Depot. He enjoys statistical modeling, video games, and fettuccine alfredo.
Kate Preusser
Kate Preusser lives and writes in Seattle, where she edits the SB Nation site Lookout Landing and tries to will the Mariners to a winning record by sheer brainpower and beer consumption alone. Her work has appeared at Baseball Prospectus, Fangraphs, and in Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Fourth Grade Flash, where she edited the sports section before being asked to step down because of her insistence on putting scouting grades on her classmates.
Meg Rowley
Meg Rowley is the managing editor of The Hardball Times, and a contributing writer to FanGraphs. Before joining FanGraphs, she was a writer for Baseball Prospectus. Her work has appeared at Lookout Landing, Just A Bit Outside, and Vice Sports. She once asked an editor to upload 15 GIFs for a piece and somehow wasn’t fired. She lives in Seattle.
Eno Sarris
Eno Sarris can’t help himself: when he watches baseball he has questions, and he wants to answer them as best he can. He does so at FanGraphs and The Athletic, where he enlists the help of writers who think better and players who play better than he does along the way.
Travis Sawchik
Travis Sawchik is a staff writer at FanGraphs and the author of Big Data Baseball, a New York Times best-selling sports book. Before arriving at FanGraphs, Travis previously covered the Pirates and Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and Clemson University athletics for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier. Travis lives with his wife, son and cat in Bay Village, Ohio where he frequently makes the 12-mile commute to Progressive Field.
Edmund Schubert
Edmund R. Schubert is an award-winning author and editor of seven books, including one novel, two short story collections, three anthologies, and one non-fiction book about writing, How to Write Magical Words. His most recent short story collection is This Giant Leap.
Greg Simons
Greg Simons, a St. Louis Cardinals fan, has been writing about baseball in various formats since the last millennium, and he’s been with The Hardball Times since 2010, serving as both an editor and writer. When he’s not thinking or writing about baseball, he’s playing it, participating in 1860s-era vintage base ball (it was two words back then) matches around the Midwest.
Paul Sporer
Paul Sporer is the editor of the Rotographs blog and the co-host of The Sleeper and The Bust podcast. He has regularly contributed to the Baseball HQ Forecaster, several annual magazines, and just this year he wrote the pitching profiles for the Fantasy Black Book. He is a yearly participant in both LABR and Tout Wars. Follow Paul on Twitter @psporer and check his baseball-related streams at Twitch.tv/psporer24.
Jeff Sullivan
Jeff Sullivan lives in Portland and writes for FanGraphs and he has done both of those things for a while. He has also lived and written other places, but all of them are worse.
Paul Swydan
Paul Swydan was the managing editor of The Hardball Times. Now, after writing about baseball for more than a decade, he is going to open The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, an independent bookstore for all ages in Acton, Mass. He still spends most of his time with his children, Jasmine and Xander.
Shane Tourtellotte
Shane Tourtellotte is a refugee from the Northeast living in Asheville, N.C. (The snow followed him there.) He’s published a few hundred thousand words of science fiction, but this didn’t strike people as bizarre enough, so he changed over to baseball. With the Houston Astros’ victory, there have now been 13 teams to win their first World Series in his lifetime (if you count franchise shifts as new clubs).
Steve Treder
Steve Treder has been a co-author of every Hardball Times Annual publication since its inception in 2004. He contributed a weekly column to The Hardball Times online from its founding through 2011. His work has also been featured in Nine, The National Pastime, and other publications. He has frequently been a presenter at baseball forums such as the SABR National Convention, the Nine Spring Training Conference, and the Cooperstown Symposium. In his day job, Steve is Senior Vice President at Western Management Group, a compensation consulting firm headquartered in Los Gatos, California. When Steve grows up, he hopes to play center field for the San Francisco Giants.
Neil Weinberg
Neil Weinberg, during business hours, does research for government. No, he cannot tell you about it. His writing about baseball is available for public consumption at FanGraphs, New English D, and The Athletic.
Sarah Wexler
Sarah Wexler is a Los Angeles native, a Dodger fan and an aspiring baseball historian. She co-hosts The Hardball Times Audio podcast, contributes to Dodgers Digest, and had the thrill of a lifetime covering the 2017 World Series for The Sporting News.