Looks like only nerds need apply.

Title: Data Architect – Baseball Analytics
Location: Cleveland, OH

Description: The Cleveland Indians are currently scouting for a Data Architect to work in our Baseball Operations Department. This individual will report to the Director of Baseball Operations while assisting both the Baseball and Information Systems Departments.

This individual will be a technical resource to the baseball analytics department, taking on increasing responsibility to design, implement, and manage the Baseball Department’s information architecture.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating data models, developing processes for extraction, transformation, cleansing, and loading a variety of internal and external data sources;
• Creating and maintaining business rules and metadata to ensure data consistency, designing and implementing a data warehouse of baseball information.
• Other responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, statistical analysis and baseball research, application and web development, and user interface and data visualization design.

Candidates must possess:
• A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field, along with demonstrated work experience designing and managing data warehouses, creating OLAP cubes, and using reporting tools.
• Experience with Oracle (preferred) or another major database system including advanced knowledge of SQL and/or MDX is required.
• Experience with any of the following are highly desirable: database administration, ETL and/or BI tools, application development in .NET and/or Java.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis software packages (R, STATA, SAS, SPSS) is desirable, as is familiarity with current baseball research and analytics.

For more information or to apply, visit http://www.indians.com/jobs , Requisition Number 10-0025. Interested candidates must apply online to be considered.

Who do You think they pick up? Boise State and Fresno State would be interesting additions. That would seriously hurt the WAC. Gonzaga would also be a good add if not for the fact that they do not have a football team.

He doesn't even rank the Giants in the top 5.

You buyin?

My Fan Fest in about 90 seconds.

The Mets announced today that they will reduce the height of Citi Field's center field wall prior to the 2010 season. Ostensibly, the reason for the 16-foot to 8-foot reduction is to help make up for the Mets massive power outage in Citi Field's first season, which saw the team drop from 172 homers in 2008 to just 95 in 2009.

<3 Mays

The state of this country would not be significantly effected by the loss of baseball beat writers or sports writers in general, but this is yet another sign of the trouble that newspapers are in, and it is really frightening to me.

Anyway, I wish this guy luck.

This clip on the Giants web site had an interview with our boy, Tim Lincecum himself, and he says he wants to be a Giant for life, and he loves it in San Francisco. Thoughts on this?