Speaker Profile

Ben Lindbergh

Staff Writer, The Ringer
ABOUT

Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for The Ringer. He also hosts the Effectively Wild podcast for FanGraphs and regularly appears on MLB Network. He is a former staff writer for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland, a former editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, and the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team and The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players. He lives in New York City.

Ben Lindbergh

Speaker's Events

SSAC
2019 Conference
Baseball 2.0: Updating America's Pastime
Baseball has been a constant through the years with limited innovation while the world of sports shifts around it.
SSAC
2021 Conference
Sabermetrics v. The World: Are Analytics Baseball's Answer?
This panel aims to examine the fine line between when to make managerial decisions on gut feel, versus when to stick to the data. Did the 2020 World Series serve as a catalyst for changes to the game going forward, or will managers shrug off pressure from the media?
Ben Lindbergh

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