Sig Mejdal (Cards stats guy) on MLB.TV

by glamboomer on Nov 5, 2007 12:52 AM EST Comment 7 comments

Here's the link:
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/mp_tpl.jsp?w=mms%3A//a1503.v108692.c10869.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/15 03/10869/v0001/mlb.download.akamai.com/10869/2007/open/features/inside_the_game/itg_stats_400.wmv&am p;pid=gen_video&vid=7759&cid=mlb&v=2&mType=w&urlstr=&mUrl=&type=v_free&a mp;_mp=1

Interesting stuff from the senior "numbers" guy with the Redbirds.

Plus, look at that World Series ring.

Boomer.

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great interview

Sig Mejdal, Senior Quantitative Analyst, St. Louis Cardinals ... I knew there was a highly educated guy down in the bowels of Busch crunching numbers but now we have a name and a face to go with it. Thanks for the link. Great interview. Amazing how this guy got his job and only Jeff Luhnow gave him an offer. Love that he went to the winter meetings uninvited sitting in the lobby for 3 days like a lost puppy dog begging for a bone.

One interesting tidbit from the interview ... the info he produces is used on the minor league side but very little on the major league side. That has to change. But will it?

by jjray on Nov 5, 2007 8:46 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yes, if he can

turn the tide from the recent bad signings and trades The Cards have been making, he'll sure earn his pay.

by ridgesee on Nov 5, 2007 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Cleveland

We tried to hire away Cleveland's assistance GM and they might be the most advanced team at using the quantitative analysis at the ML level. Will Mozeliak have Sig work up analysis for ML decisions? I sure hope so.

by jjray on Nov 5, 2007 11:17 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

fantasyland

Matt Walker picked Sig up at the winter meetings and hired him to be his analyst for his Tout Wars fantasy team. The next year Luhnow hired him. Read Fantasyland by Matt Walker. It is fascinating and funny - and you'll get a unique perspective on Sig in the process.

by abothebear on Nov 5, 2007 10:07 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

it is a great book

author's name is sam walker, though, not matt.

after you're done reading the book, read my interview w/ walker here.

by lboros on Nov 5, 2007 12:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

thanks

My bad. I lent it out a few months ago so I was going on memory. If I only had the internet handy I could have looked it up to be sure.

by abothebear on Nov 5, 2007 1:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

that video has been around for a while

i'd love to get in his computer and look at all the stuff he has, though i doubt i would be able to understand half of it. i like knowing this guy is helping with the draft. a lot of these college "sleeper" guys we are getting in the later rounds are a direct result of sig.

Future Redbirds

by erik on Nov 5, 2007 10:11 AM EST reply actions 0 recs