Joe Hultzen recently joined TruMedia as our MLB Team Lead. His decade-long experience in MLB allows him to provide clients with the services they need to maximize TruMedia’s product. He has held roles in the Baseball Operations, Advance Video Scouting, and Player Valuation departments. In this conversation, Joe talks about…

• The best thing about working for a MLB team

• The challenges of working for a MLB team

• The biggest surprise about working for a MLB team

• How the use of data evolved over the course of his decade with MLB teams

• The key to communicating data well

• His approach to communicating with front offices compared to players

• What skills to develop when searching for a job with a MLB team

• His favorite “how-did-I-get-here” moment

• Where to eat when in Pittsburgh

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Joe.

Show Links

• Follow Joe on Twitter: @JoeHultzen

• Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.

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This week, we’re doing things a bit differently on Expected Value. Producer Sergio De La Espriella has taken over Expected Value and conducted an interview in Spanish, as a way of expanding accessibility to data and analytics information to the Spanish-speaking public. Our Spanish-speaking guest is Cristian Perez. Cristian is coming off a four year stint with the Cincinnati Reds where he served as an Assistant Bullpen & Advances Scouting Coach. He also played college baseball at Duke University & the University of Southern California. In this conversation, Julio talks about…

• How he ended up getting into baseball

• His earliest experience with baseball analytics

• Why forming relationships is such an important part of coaching

• How much access Latin American players have to analytics

• What can be done to make analytics more digestable to Latin American players

• His favorite moments from his playing career and his time as a MLB coach

• His favorite place to eat in South Florida

Show Links

• Follow Cristian on Twitter: @Cris_Perez18

• Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.

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Chris Cleary is fresh off winning a national championship in his 4th season with the Ole Miss program, the 2nd national championship in Ole Miss athletics history. The Rebels were 7-14 in conference play at one point and turned their season around en route to a national championship. Chris joined the Rebels in August of 2018 as the Coordinator of Operations before being promoted to his current role in July of 2020. In this conversation, Chris talks about…

• The College World Series experience and Ole Miss’ bounce back

• Why the state of Mississippi has had so much college baseball success recently

• What he does with the team and how analytics in incorporated into his process

• How he uses data to help Ole Miss in the field, at the plate, and on the mound

• The art of communicating that data to players

• How data has evolved in college baseball over the past decade

• Where to eat in Oxford

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Chris.

Show Links

• Follow Chris on Twitter: @ccleary05.

• To check out Chris’ biography, click here.

• To take a look at Ole Miss baseball’s facilities tour, click here.

• To check out Chris’ case study on the Cubs infield outs from 2019, click here.

• Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.

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Robin Lund just wrapped up his fourth season with the Iowa Hawkeyes and his third season as the pitching coach. Iowa pitchers finished the season top-five in the country in ERA, K%, and opponents batting average, among other stats. Before he joined the Iowa staff, Robin spent over 15 years as an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology as UNI. In this conversation, Robin talks about…

• His journey to becoming the Iowa Hawkeyes pitching coach

• His work as a kinesiology professor and how that applies to coaching

• How he got into traditional baseball analytics

• His approach to baseball data as someone who came from the sports science side

• Working with Iowa’s highly-regarded student manager program

• Advice for data-minded people working with baseball people

• Balancing individual pitcher plans with team-wide goals and approaches

• Where to eat in Iowa City

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Robin.

Show Links

• Follow Robin on Twitter: @Lunderton.

• To check out Robin’s biography, click here.

• For more on Robin’s path to Iowa, click here.

• For more on Robin’s passion for cooking, click here.

• For more on Iowa’s student manager program, click here.

• Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.

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Chip Hale won a national title as a player with Arizona back in 1986, played seven years in the major leagues, then spent 15 years as a major-league coach and manger. He won a World Series as the Nationals bench coach in 2019, and then took over the Arizona baseball program last summer. In this conversation, Chip talks about…

• The evolution of data availability over the course of his playing and coaching career

• What information college teams have access to

• What college kids expect from data and how they use it

• How he balances stats and the eye test when making in-game decisions

• Keys to communicating with players

• Managing a couple innings in the 2019 World Series

• Memories from winning the 1986 NCAA title with Arizona

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Chip.

Show Links

• Follow Chip on Twitter: @UHCoachHale

• Check out Chip’s biography here.

• Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.

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