Alan Schwarz

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Alan Schwarz is a respected (at least on Baseball Think Factory) baseball writer for Baseball America, the New York Times, and other publications.

His specialty is the relationship of statistics and sabermetrics to the game; his Times columns are under the "Keeping Score" banner and usually look at a current baseball topic in the light of sabermetrics. His first book, The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics (http://isbn.nu/0312322224), is a readable popular survey of baseball statistics from the beginning of the sport until today.

BBTF has him as contributing one Primate Studies article in January 2004 about the future of defensive evaluation. It's unknown whether he still lurks on the site.

His articles elsewhere are often linked to on Primer for discussion. In fact, a thread relating to one of his BA pieces inadvertently created the Stats vs. Scouts running joke.

In 2007, he officially left his full-time job with BA to become a full-timer for the Times. Mazel tovs abounded on BBTF.

Resources

• AlanSchwarz.com (http://www.alanschwarz.com) - official site
• Answers Could Come to Elusive Questions (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primate_studies/discussion/schwarz_2004-01-26_0/) - Alan's Primate Studies piece
• Baseball America: Schwarz: Commencing a New Chapter (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/baseball_america_schwarz_commencing_a_new_chapter/) - Primer thread on Alan's job-change announcement