People with Holzhauer’s skill set are already working in baseball front offices.
“Jeopardy!” sensation James Holzhauer speaks after being presented with a key to the Las Vegas Strip earlier this month.
Until now, the links between Holzhauer’s methodical dominance of Jeopardy — second only to Ken Jennings — and its baseball-related underpinnings have been little more than a curiosity:Holzhauer has said he always wanted to be the general manager of a baseball team. He wore a Cubs jersey for his MLB Network interview.
If you’re skeptical that people with Holzhauer’s skill set could land a job in a baseball front office, or that baseball front offices would hire someone like him, here’s the answer to both: They already have. In Holzhauer, Mejdal sees parallels “not only to myself, but to many successful analysts and decision-makers in baseball. I see a similarity in how we think. Of all the analysts we’ve hired in St. Louis, Houston and Baltimore, none have come from the baseball industry. They’ve all been from outside. They may have been involved in baseball research as a hobby, but it wasn’t their primary occupation. What there was, was a passion for the sport.
But baseball has also softened its stance somewhat toward gambling, reaching an agreement in November with MGM International Resorts as its official casino partner, with MLB sharing proprietary Statcast data with MGM. Personnel working in baseball are still prohibited from gambling on the sport, but the agreement underscored the links between gambling and fantasy baseball, as well as fantasy baseball and the real thing.
“I’m going to go out on a limb,” Beane said, “and say when he’s done with [“Jeopardy!”] he’s going to have an opportunity to work in any sport he wants. Or any industry — because all industries are based on data and making predictive decisions.”
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