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January 22, 2004
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Baseball Information Solutions is a fairly new company that is in the business of collecting and distributing baseball statistics. The president, Steve Moyer, directed operations at STATS, Inc. during my tenure and was responsible for building up the great network of reporters there. I learned about this start-up when I saw the 2004 Bill James Handbook available for sale. I contacted Steve to find out what was happening, and those discussions have led to a job offer.

Starting Feb. 2, I will be back in baseball, working for Baseball Information Solutions as a programmer. I'm very excited. Steve is a pleasure to work with, and the company is backed by John Dewan, the driving force behind the rise of STATS, Inc. Bill James is obviously lending his name to the book. It's like the early days of STATS, Inc. all over again.

And continuing this blog is part of the deal! (I guess that makes me a professional blogger. :-)) We've talked about making this weblog a part of the Baseball Information Solutions web page, so I suspect over the next year you'll see some changes, all for the better.

And thanks to all who have supported this site the last two years with your visits and comments. You've kept my head in the game, and made me want to get back into the business. I hope you continue to enjoy your visits here and as much as I enjoy writing for you. The 2004 season can't start soon enough!


Posted by David Pinto at 11:03 AM | Blogs | TrackBack (3)
Comments

Congratulations!

Posted by: Crank at January 22, 2004 11:29 AM

Congrats Dave!!! We get to keep you, AND you move up the ladder? Sounds like a great deal to me. Best of luck man, you deserve it.
-Daniel

Posted by: Daniel at January 22, 2004 11:37 AM

Congratulation, Dave. Good to hear they're picking up good people over there. Best of luck with the new gig.

Posted by: Andrew at January 22, 2004 11:40 AM

Congrats. Sweet deal.

Posted by: Adam at January 22, 2004 12:09 PM

Congrats! A well deserved opportunity.

Posted by: michele at January 22, 2004 12:17 PM

Your appointment is very well deserved. Don't forget us little people, David!

Posted by: Robert Tagorda at January 22, 2004 12:20 PM

Congratulations! Sounds like a better deal (for your readers, anyway) than the Mets job.

Posted by: Dr. Manhattan at January 22, 2004 12:24 PM

Yeah, way to go David! Sounds like a perfect fit - and we're all relieved that Baseball Musings is part of the deal.

Posted by: Jon at January 22, 2004 12:30 PM

Congratulations Dave! Keep up the good work...

Posted by: Jed Roberts at January 22, 2004 12:41 PM

Mr. Pinto,

First off, congrats!!!

Second, can your first order of business be to tone down the Baseball Information Solutions frontpage. Currently, upon entering you are blasted with some size a million font and no real organization. Please help so I can look at this site without changing my resolution to 2520 x 1280.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Posted by: Bill Kelly at January 22, 2004 12:58 PM

This is what I like to hear. Congratulations, David!

Posted by: Eric at January 22, 2004 12:58 PM

Congrats, even if it did have to happen to a Yankee fan.

Posted by: brb at January 22, 2004 01:17 PM

Great news! Congratulations. Your website is a constant source of pleasure and information. Keep it up

Posted by: Stephen at January 22, 2004 01:24 PM

Dave, huge congratulations you rock.

And he's not a Yankee fan!!!

Posted by: Steve at January 22, 2004 01:33 PM

Great to hear it! Congratulations.

Posted by: Matt Davis at January 22, 2004 02:12 PM

Great news for all concerned..

Besides teh return of the RedBook, what else is does Baseball Info Solutions have in store for us??

Posted by: Rod Nelson at January 22, 2004 02:20 PM

David,

Outstanding! A very hearty Congratulations!

Posted by: Tom F. at January 22, 2004 02:32 PM

Outstanding news! I'm very happy for you, and glad to hear the site will only benefit from it.

Posted by: Eli at January 22, 2004 02:44 PM

Congratulations David. BIS will be a better organization for having you on its team.

Posted by: Doug Purdie at January 22, 2004 03:45 PM

That's so sweet, it should be illegal.

Spring Training in 3 weeks, and just a couple more months before I can resume needling AllahPundit about the Red Sox (or as he calls them, "The Crimson Jihad") and Cubs.

Though the way the those teams' pitching is shaping up, I may have my work cut out for me. Any word on progress with Maddux?

Posted by: Joe Katzman at January 22, 2004 04:16 PM

Good on yer, mate.

Posted by: Linkmeister at January 22, 2004 05:03 PM

Congratulations!

I used to visit the Baseball Tonight chat room on a daily basis and am very glad that your daily musings will continue to be a part of my web browsing every morning.

Posted by: Greg at January 22, 2004 05:43 PM

Congratulations, David! It's like you're back in the old neighborhood. Keep up the great work on the blog!

Posted by: Marty Couvillon at January 22, 2004 06:28 PM

Congrats! That's certainly an assemblage of crack baseball talent to which you will be contributing.

Now once you get your feet on the ground, please let us know what the deal is with the mixing of baseball and religion over there!?! Assisting Christians to Act [ACTA] is the name of the publishing co.? It might be more likely to assist my peristaltic wave to work in reverse...

A hearty congratulations nonetheless! And do please keep up posted.

Posted by: Tom Watts at January 22, 2004 07:07 PM

Congratulations David, and I'm glad that Baseball Musings will be continuing!

Posted by: JD Arney at January 22, 2004 07:07 PM

That's great Dave!

Glad to hear about the position. Are they looking for any more computer geeks who love baseball? :)

Posted by: Endymion Keats at January 22, 2004 08:45 PM

david, what great news. i'm happy for you. what could be better than getting paid for doing what you happened to want to do anyway? (like my kidz pediatrician- she sez she gets PAID to nag kidz and what more could a grrrl possibly want?) hope everything works out well. but i'll bet you'll have to spend less time on the internet at work!!!

Posted by: lisa gray at January 22, 2004 09:35 PM