Something exciting happened this past summer. A close relative was hired as an intern for a major league team and got to work with their analytics team. He apparently made a good impression and has been told he has a good chance to be hired full-time next year.
Anyhow, he told me that the mostly young people in the analytics team are given a surprising amount of responsibility. The guy he worked with most closely has only been there a couple years and has a group of teams (4) that he is responsible for compiling information on and analyzing all of their prospects in case there is a trade with one of those teams. One of his assigned teams was the Braves. I was happy to share my thoughts on the Braves system with my close relative. I felt somewhat conflicted and sleazy about this. But fortunately there were no transactions this past summer between the Braves and this team.
My observation from this admittedly limited view of the inner workings of a major league team is that the board members around here who take the trouble to follow our minor league system closely could definitely contribute information that a non-Braves team would find of value. I'm less sure of whether anyone posting here can contribute something new in terms of analysis of major league talent, but this is just a reflection of the fact that my relative did not see much of the analysis on that side of the business.
