The Giants have created a new analytics-based position — Coordinator of Pitching Analysis — and have hired away Driveline Baseball’s Matt Daniels for that role. Of course, it’s likely they created the role just for him, but that just makes sense. Farhan Zaidi and crew have just dragged the Giants into modern baseball. Not every existing role was made to fit.
Anyway, here’s Daniels’ announcement on his Twitter page:
Maybe you haven’t heard of the “Driveline Baseball Revolution”, but imagine if you would a group of data engineers working under cover of anonymity collecting biometric and motion data on every open-minded baseball player, pro and amateur alike, and compiling baseball movements into a database for the express purpose of discovering peak efficiency.