Sorry for the lack of posting. This has proven to be a busy quarter and as always, I’ve not gotten as much work done as I want to. Personal/health/financial issues have taken their toll. But it’s not all bad news. I had a great interview on Monday with a statistician who does work for a Major League Team and I have an interview tomorrow with an actual front office person at an MLB team. I’ve also made a few more connections about how the professionalization process of the sabermetrician ties into the way institutions incorporate new forms of knowledge. In any case I promise to write more next week after this interviews. I’m almost done with these things thank god.

One more thing actually, someone I interviewed last year contacted me to see how the research was going. Here is the text of the email that I sent him. Read the rest of this entry »