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

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?

2021 Conference