Baseball Daily Digest is dedicated to bringing you the best in baseball coverage. Our team of baseball fanatics combines for decades of experience. Meet the people behind the writing, and the faces behind the opinions! Our team thanks you for your interest, and invites you to write to us personally. Whether you agree or disagree, we love to hear from people like yourself, who love baseball. Thanks for visiting us at Baseball Daily Digest! 

Joe Hamrahi | Founder
 
Joe Hamrahi is a licensed CPA with an MBA in accounting. He's currently employed as the CFO for a Manhattan public relations firm and BDD's parent company, Baseball Prospectus.

In 2004, Joe came up with the idea of starting a web site that focused on all facets of baseball, from news to statistics to analysis and player development. He partnered up with a long time friend and colleague, Matt Gabriel , and together they developed what we now know as Baseball Daily Digest. Over the past few years, Joe has become well known within the media circles of major and minor league baseball. He represented Baseball Digest Daily at the 2005 All-Star Game in Detroit and has interviewed countless professional players and executives including Mike Piazza, Jeff Francoeur, Mariano Rivera, Rickie Weeks, Josh Beckett, John Schuerholz, Doug Melvin, Dayton Moore, and the legendary Johnny Podres.

Bill Baer | Writer

Bill is a diehard Phillies fan with a Phillies-themed blog called Crashburn Alley. He is an avid proponent of Sabermetrics. As soon as he's certified to teach math classes, he hopes to use it as a tool to help high school students understand and enjoy mathematics. When he's not blogging, Bill works for a real estate services company.

Bill Richardson | Photographer

Bill Richardson resides in Orlando Florida and is employed with an area defense contractor. Bill is a life long fan of baseball and the Minnesota Twins, having been born and raised in Minneapolis . He typically attends 25-30 Grapefruit League games each March in Florida with his spouse.
 
Bill has developed an interest in sports photography and has covered a variety of NCAA intercollegiate sports including baseball, softball, soccer and basketball for the University of Central Florida . Look for Bill’s MLB images at Baseball Digest Daily.

Bo Wulf | Writer

Bo's fate as a die-hard baseball fan was sealed from the moment he was conceived while his parents were on assignment covering the World Series. Born and bred in New York, Bo gets sick at the thought of what Omar Minaya has done to his beloved Mets. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University, where he played on the prolific Club Baseball team that was perenially in the top 15 in the country, despite having an enrollment more than four times less than that of the competition.
 
He spent most of his childhood figuring out convoluted ways to connect athletes like World B. Free and Benny Agbayani in six degrees of separation (Ainge is the key), and supporting his brother's unhealthy obsession with Butch Huskey. In a cruel twist of fate, work has taken Bo to Philadelphia, where he's surrounded by Phillies fans who can't even bother to taunt a Mets fan anymore.

Brian Joseph | Managing Editor 

Brian Joseph is a freelance writer with a passion for sports, pop culture and poker.  Brian's writing appears weekly on Seamheads.com and has previously been published on InsideCarolina.com and PokerPlasm. 
 
A member of SABR, Brian enjoys the history of baseball but can still appreciate an appearance by the Phillie Phanatic.  A lifelong Phillies fan, he was too young to enjoy their only World Championship in 1980 but old enough to suffer through World Series losses in 1983 and 1993. 
 
With a background in retail management and a communications degree from Rowan University of New Jersey, Brian also maintains his own blog at MissionWSOP.com documenting his quest to someday win a World Series Of Poker bracelet.

Craig Brown | Writer

Craig Brown hasn't missed a Kansas City Royals post season game since 1980. Unfortunately, that's not quite as impressive as it sounds.Craig began blogging about the Royals prior to the 2005 season, which was just in time to chronicle their franchise record 106 loss season. Since he began jotting down words on the cyber pages, he's contributed to Creative Sports, HEATER Magazine and The Hardball Times. Currently, Craig's Royal musings appear on the Most Valuable Network at Royals Authority.A lefthander, Craig is disappointed he didn't understand the value of being a LOOGY until it was too late.When not thinking about the Royals, Craig works as a post production video editor in Kansas City where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

David Wade | Writer

David Wade is a married 39-year-old father of three and runs a small business near the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY.  With his boys getting old enough to play the game, he has become very involved in Little League baseball in Lexington. In 2005, he decided to finish his college degree at UK part-time and graduated in May 2009 with a Bachelor's in A&S, majoring in History.  During this return to school, he found out that he really likes writing.  He’s a pretty big baseball fan all around and favors the Tigers, Cubs, and his Harvey’s Wallbangers’ fantasy team.

Dean Lima | Photographer

Dean Lima is a freelance photographer based in Manchester, NH and is a licensed truck driver by trade. Dean has been the official Manual Scoreboard Operator for the Eastern League AA-New Hampshire Fisher Cats since the start of the 2007 season.

Doug Thorburn | Writer

Doug Thorburn spent most of the past decade in San Diego getting educated in biopsychology, sports business, and baseball. He earned degrees as both a UCSD Triton and an SDSU Aztec, and the time in-between found him working in Baseball Operations with the Sacramento River Cats. Much of his time in San Diego was consumed by his job with the National Pitching Association, where he worked as a pitching coach, biomechanics specialist, and director of the motion analysis program.

Doug also co-authored a book with NPA founder and USC pitching coach Tom House titled, Arm Action, Arm Path, and the Perfect Pitch. Published in January 2009, the book challenges the conventional wisdom of coaches, using motion analysis data to objectively study pitching mechanics. In other words, it covers pitching stats for scouts and coaches.

Doug recently moved back to his native Bay Area, where he patiently waits for the A’s to develop a new generation of impact hitters, while riding BART to A’s games until they move to the South Bay. He is currently the director of the Tutoring Club in Los Gatos, CA, and is fully devoted to player development, whether on the field or in the classroom.

Eric Polsky | Writer

Eric Polsky is a litigation attorney in Miami, Florida working for the law firm of Adams & Diaco, P.A. in the areas of insurance defense and personal injury law. He spent seven short years at the University of Florida in which he managed to find the time to earn a law degree, a Master's Degree in sport management, a Bachelor of Science in economics, and a minor in mass communication.  He is a frustrated yet understanding and optimistic fan of the Florida Marlins, where he served as an intern in the public relations department. During his internship, he became one of the few people to witness Mike Piazza catch for the Marlins and hit one of his 8 career triples in only 18 career Marlins at-bats.  Eric received the Jack Ramsay Scholarship for Journalism back in his high school heyday in part for his work as a freelance reporter on high school sports in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.  He was also a member of the Sports Lawyers Association, where he was able to attend several national conferences and learn about the sports industry from high-level executives and multi-level agents. When he's not following baseball, Eric is a diehard supporter of the Miami Heat and defending champion Florida Gators.

Geoff Young | Writer

Geoff Young first caught baseball fever in the late-'70s and began following seriously in the early-'80s, when a friend introduced him to the Bill James Baseball Abstracts. In 1997 he created the web site Ducksnorts, which in 2001 became a blog covering the San Diego Padres. Since then, he's been thinking way too hard about the Padres, but he has no life, so it's all good.Geoff also writes daily at Knuckle Curve and is a regular contributor to The Hardball Times. He self-published his first book, the Ducksnorts 2007 Baseball Annual, in March 2007. A follow-up is due out, er, any moment now. No, really, it is.When he's not busy thinking about baseball, Geoff spends time at home with his wife and two dogs. But let's be honest, he's always busy thinking about baseball.    

Isaac Thorn | Writer

Raised in upstate New York, Isaac quickly fell into line and became a die hard Mets fan. Other fond baseball memories involve Expos games at Olympic Stadium, forays to Shea, and competing with his older brother to gather complete sets of Topps cards....Future Stars and all.

Thorn is also pretty sure that Cooperstown is one of the best places in the world.

Currently residing in Cincinnati, Isaac is a datacaster for mlb.com. This job has opened his eyes to all the aspects of baseball which do not occur within the foul lines.

When not trying to fathom exactly how lucky he is to get paid to sit in the press box and watch baseball, Thorn can be found chasing down freelance writing opportunities and working a cash register at a very classy riverside liquor store in Covington, Kentucky. 

Jeff Shand-Lubbers | Writer

Jeff Shand-Lubbers is a lifelong Detroit Tigers fan and writer for the Mayo Smith Society (if you don’t know who Mayo Smith is you don’t deserve to join).  The back of his Little League rookie card states that Jack Morris is his favorite player, though subsequent cards listed a fondness for Alan Trammell.  He is also one of the few people around who will admit to owning a Bobby Higginson Bobblehead.  Additionally he is currently working on his first biography for SABR’s Bio Project.  And at any given baseball game he is almost always the only one under the age of 50 keeping score.

After spending a few years in Washington, DC watching the Nationals go from tolerable to nearly unwatchable Jeff is now in Northern California trying to get used to the concept of wearing a jacket to a baseball game in August.

John Brattain | Writer

John has been tilting Previous stops along the way include Baseball Prospectus, TOTe Weblog and About.com.at baseball's windmills for over a decade. He currently writes for The Hardball Times and Sympatico/MSN Sports. He makes guest appearances at such exotic locales as The Baseball Analysts, The Baseball Journals and the Biz of Baseball. Previous stops along the way include Baseball Prospectus, TOTe Weblog and About.com, K.com, Bootleg Sports, ESPN Insider, MLBtalk, Yankees.com, and Replacement Level Yankees. He has made two forays into the blogosphere with The Progenitor of Severe Gluteal Discomfort and Synaptic Flatulence. He can be heard most Wednesdays on ESPN 1450's Mike Gill Show and occasionally on The Jed Donahue Show on WTKT-AM 1460 and other stations.John is a Blue Jays fan since their inception and is still ticked at MLB's destruction of the Montreal Expos--a team he followed from days of Coco Laboy and Bobby Wine. John aspires to team up with David Samson in the National Dwarf Tossing Competition and prove that Alfred E. Neuman was actually Bud Selig's high school yearbook photo.

Mathew Sisson | Writer

Mathew Sisson, a SABR member from Dartmouth, Massachusetts, is a life long Red Sox Fan. He currently lives in Watertown, Massachusetts and works as an internal consultant for one of Massachusetts major health insurance providers. Matt is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire where he majored in Health Management and Policy and holds an MBA from Clark University. In addition to his work at Baseball Digest Daily, Matt contributes to the site Seamheads.com and has a strong interest in current major league players, baseball statistics, fantasy baseball, and baseball history.  Matt is currently working on chapters for books being published in 2009 on the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Red Sox and has recently been published in Maple Street Press’s Yankees 2009 Annual.

Michael Street | Writer

Michael Street served his country for seventeen years as an Army brat, a peripatetic childhood that took him to such exotic locales as Bonn, Germany, and Lawton, Oklahoma. This not only made him worldly wise, it left him without a hometown or a home team. Then, in 1983, his father retired in Huntsville, Alabama, home of the Huntsville Stars, at the time the AA affiliate of the Oakland A’s. Such future Oakland luminaries as Mark McGwire, and Jose Canseco played for the Stars in those heady early days, when they were perennial contenders. Michael got to see them all, cheering for them in the Quake Series, back before Oakland made a habit of trading away all its superstars.

After graduating from Yale in 1991, Michael lived in New York City’s Upper East Side, two subway stops from Yankee Stadium. For less than ten dollars, he could see a game in the bleachers, watching the once-mighty Yanks wallow in the second division. He moved away to graduate school back in Alabama just before the Yanks returned to their championship ways, and just after Michael Jordan played his last game with the nearby Birmingham Barons. While at Alabama, he wrote his first novel, Centerfield, about Ty Cobb’s tumultuous 1912 season, when he vaulted into the stands to thrash a one-armed heckler, precipitating baseball’s first strike game.

Now in Portland, Oregon, Michael lives a mile from the AAA Portland Beavers ballpark, and the cheers occasionally drift through his back window while he’s working, making him feel he’s written something exceptional. He watches Mariners games when they’re not too painful to follow, blogging his pain out on the Street Reporter. He also reviews baseball books for Love My Team and writes reviews, features, and a monthly sports column for the local Asian Reporter. He spends his spare moments mainlining baseball games on DirecTV’s “Baseball Heroin” package. 

Rob McQuown | Writer

Rob McQuown is addicted to baseball, with a special interest in how winning teams are "engineered". A longsuffering Cubs fan, the idea of "serious" fandom and analysis didn't really enter his mind until the 80's. After reading his first Bill James Baseball Abstract as an engineering student in 1986, a new world was opened up to him. First, as hobby, Rob helped start a Strat-O-Matic league with some long-time SOM players.  "Experimentation" into fantasy baseball and other simulation games also took place, but he didn't inhale.

Combining passions for baseball and math was also combined with an employment position in 1992, as Rob took a job as a programmer for STATS, Inc. Working for such a small company (he was 7th full-time employee, even though the scouting network was huge) led to many other opportunities, such as working with GMs and sports agents for both tactical research projects and arbitration cases, writing for The Scouting Notebook 1993-1995, and recording games from the press box.The Internet explosion and baseball implosion (strike) led to a long "dry" period of baseball "sobriety" from 1995 through 2002. During this period, Rob helped start up (and later sell) two dot-com's, attended seminary (briefly), and then went to work for a multinational corporation. But, in 2004, while working at Motorola as a Project Manager, the bug bit again and Rob re-joined the Strat-O-Matic league he'd helped start, joined a few others for good measure, and - in 2006 - even joined a few roto leagues.  After five years with Motorola, Rob recently left his job and has been nominally working on his investment company while playing a little online poker. But the 2006 baseball season mostly involved a lot of MLB.tv, helping get an extremely realistic Strat league off the ground, and some reading of the latest research from the many smart people doing baseball analysis. He lives in NW suburban Chicagoland, and is within about an hour of the two Chicago teams, as well as Milwaukee . Always up for a discussion on baseball.

Zach Sanders | Writer

Zach Sanders is a member of SABR, and serves on the Business of Baseball and Statistical Analysis committees. Zach takes a strong interest in how teams are built and run, and appreciates a great GM, whether he embraces statistics or not. Zach prefers stats to scouting, but knows that both are important if a team is to build a lasting dynasty. He is currently working towards a business degree, and hopes his continued education will give him a better understanding of why teams make certain maneuvers.

When not writing for BDD, Zach analyzes the Seattle Mariners for Inside the Majors, a site run by former Toronto Blue Jays assistant GM Bart Given, and talks about all things baseball on his own blog, MLB Notebook. Zach also coaches youth baseball during the summer in his hometown, and has written about football for KFFL. Zach's ultimate goal is to work for a major league team, but he enjoys this writing gig and wouldn't mind continuing work in the new media field.

When not consumed by baseball, Zach enjoys spending time with his cousin and nephew, and likes to partake in a game of basketball, football, or tennis.