January 22, 2004
Back to Baseball
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!
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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
Congratulation, Dave. Good to hear they're picking up good people over there. Best of luck with the new gig.
Congrats! A well deserved opportunity.
Your appointment is very well deserved. Don't forget us little people, David!
Congratulations! Sounds like a better deal (for your readers, anyway) than the Mets job.
Yeah, way to go David! Sounds like a perfect fit - and we're all relieved that Baseball Musings is part of the deal.
Congratulations Dave! Keep up the good work...
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.
This is what I like to hear. Congratulations, David!
Congrats, even if it did have to happen to a Yankee fan.
Great news! Congratulations. Your website is a constant source of pleasure and information. Keep it up
Dave, huge congratulations you rock.
And he's not a Yankee fan!!!
Great to hear it! Congratulations.
Great news for all concerned..
Besides teh return of the RedBook, what else is does Baseball Info Solutions have in store for us??
David,
Outstanding! A very hearty Congratulations!
Outstanding news! I'm very happy for you, and glad to hear the site will only benefit from it.
Congratulations David. BIS will be a better organization for having you on its team.
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?
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.
Congratulations, David! It's like you're back in the old neighborhood. Keep up the great work on the blog!
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.
Congratulations David, and I'm glad that Baseball Musings will be continuing!
That's great Dave!
Glad to hear about the position. Are they looking for any more computer geeks who love baseball? :)
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!!!