Chris Long interview, part 2

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Friar Forecast: Chris Long interview, part 2
Published 3/14/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Friar Forecast: Chris Long interview, part 2 Beware the Killer Robots! ...with Chris Long, Padres’ Senior Quantitative Analyst. FF: Khalil Greene has really struggled hitting at home in his career. Do you think there’s something in the way he puts the ball in play that causes that or is it just randomness (or something else)? Chris Long: He has a 270 BABIP at home, and a 306 BABIP away. PETCO’s BABIP last year was 280, the rest of the NL averaged 306; in 2006 these were 280 and 303. So he’s a little unlucky there, but not much. He strikes out a lot, doesn’t walk at a ...

Friday Links (14 Mar 08)
Published 3/14/2008 by Geoff Young at Ducksnorts
... MB at Friar Forecast continues his interview with Padres front office staffer Chris Long. My favorite part: ...

Catfish Stew: The Hole In Tire Universe
Published 3/14/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... with Kevin Goldstein and Christina Kahrl that I attended this past Monday here in my hometown of Alameda, CA, an event which, to be honest, wasn't a whole lot more noteworthy or eventful than my night with Paris Hilton, other than the one statement that stuck in my mind, which was Goldstein saying that Littlefield was probably the last of baseball's stupid GMs. Every team is run by committees of Einsteins these days, all talking about baseball like physicists . Perhaps, then, the sequel to Moneyball should be called some ultra-physicist-sounding name like "Infinityball", ...

Interviews with Padres' Stats Guy
Published 3/17/2008 by Justin at On Baseball and the Reds
MB, who runs Friar Forecast (among others) and occasionally has commented here, has scored two really interesting interview pieces with Chris Long, who is the San Diego Padres' Senior Quantitative Analyst. They're good reads, and shed some light on some of the advanced analysis work going on in some major league teams. Here are the two parts of the interview: Part 1 Part 2And here's my favorite exchange from the second part of the interview: FF: Are you involved in integrating what I’ll call scouting data (pitch ...

Statheads in the front office
Published 3/18/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
... As many of you may know, I am fascinated with the decision making process of major leagues teams. I’m particularly interested in the statistical side, although obviously the scouts play an invaluable role (and the merging of the two “sides” is perhaps most important). The question I’ve seen asked most from people who read the Chris Long interview was, “do the [insert favorite team here] have one of these guys?” So I took a few minutes to look through each teams official Web site to see if they have a similar position (Senior Quantitative ...

Meet the front office
Published 3/31/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
... is what moved Moores forward in his chair as he touted heavy hitters such as club CEO Sandy Alderson and statistical analysts such as Paul DePodesta, Jeff Kingston, Chris Long and Josh Stein. “They’re measuring stuff that wasn’t being measured before, and that goes all the way to the farm system, but also the big-league level. We have some first-rate analysts that pore over numbers. We’re in up to our eyeballs in numbers.” If you needed more evidence that Chris Long is an extremely smart guy, well, much of the article is dedicated to ...

Chris Long Q&A
Published 7/10/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
... of my questions earlier this season about his role with the Padres. Once again, big thanks go out to Chris for taking time out of his busy schedule for some draft talk. ...