Doug Fearing of Teamworks Intelligence was honored with the SABR Analytics Conference Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, February 28, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Fearing is the Chief Data Officer at Teamworks Intelligence. He was also the co-founder and CEO of Zelus Analytics. Following Zelus’s acquisition by Teamworks in 2024, he now leads the expansion of its advanced analytics capabilities across the Teamworks operating system.

From 2015 to 2018, he founded and led the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Baseball Research and Development team, growing from one full-time employee to 20 in software development, data analytics, and performance technologies. He also worked with the Tampa Bay Rays from 2010 to 2015 as a Senior Advisor with their R&D team. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

For more coverage of the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference, visit SABR.org/analytics.

Congratulations to Michael Rosen, Richard Staff, R.J. Anderson, and Daniel R. Epstein, winners of the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards. They were recognized in an awards ceremony during the SABR Analytics Conference on Saturday, February 28, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Rosen was voted as the winner of the Contemporary Baseball Analysis Award for his article “How Much Do Trail Runners Matter? An Investigation,” published by FanGraphs on September 8, 2025.

Staff was voted as the winner of the Contemporary Baseball Commentary Award for his article  “The Secret Brotherhood of the Phantom Ballplayers,” published by Defector on July 21, 2025.

Anderson was voted as the winner of the Historical Baseball Analysis/Commentary Award for his article “What MLB’s salary cap history can tell us about the upcoming CBA negotiations,” published by CBS Sports on December 1, 2025.

Epstein was voted as the winner of the John Dewan Defensive Analytics Award for his article “Stand in the Place Where You Are,” published by Baseball Prospectus on May 5, 2025.

The SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards recognize baseball researchers who have completed the best work of original analysis or commentary during the preceding calendar year.

• Related link: Click here to view all finalists for the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards

Voting for the winners was conducted online from January 26–February 6, 2026, at SABR.org, BaseballProspectus.com, FanGraphs.com, and IBWAA.com, with results weighted equally at 25%.

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At the SABR Analytics Conference on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, Brian Kenny of MLB Network delivered the opening remarks with a talk on Analytics Now.

• Watch: Click here to watch a video replay of Brian Kenny on Analytics Now (YouTube)

Here are some highlights from Kenny’s talk:

On the front-office revolution

• “Cleveland Guardians (President of Baseball Operations) Chris Antonetti (and I) were just talking about the revolution of the front office. He said when he got to Cleveland in 1999, there were eight people, eight executives in the whole executive staff of the Cleveland Indians. They were very forward-thinking led by John Hart. And he said they now have 55 people in the Baseball Operations department alone. It’s exploded. We know Cleveland is not a big-market club; it’s not a big payroll club, but they certainly invest in their brain power, and that’s paid off.”

On embracing uncertainty in both baseball and life

• “When I’m talking about what analytics are all about, at least for me, it was always: Don’t have the answer to the question before the question is even asked. Bill James always told me, ‘A completely acceptable response is ‘I don’t know.’’ We should approach everything that way. How do you put together a winner? How much pitching is enough? How much relief pitching is enough? How strong should your bench be? How do you allocate your resources? No one quite knows the exact answers. But a lot of clubs have figured a few things out. That’s what I love — you figured a few things out that work. You can do it in your life as well: what works, what doesn’t work, what might I not be thinking of exactly here? And baseball clubs have done that.”   

On honoring the legacy of LGBT baseball pioneer Billy Bean

• “I think of Billy and try to further his legacy. Be kind to someone, reach out to someone, lend your expertise to somebody else. Be cognizant that not everybody might be as quick or strong as you are. Be aware of that. If you get a chance to look up Billy Bean, he’s the best inclusion of Major League Baseball. There’s many people possible furthering his legacy.”

Transcription assistance from Yun-Kai Guo.

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At the SABR Analytics Conference on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, Dr. Glenn Fleisig delivered the keynote talk on “The Tommy John Surgery Epidemic: Why So Many Injuries and What Can Be Done to Stop Them?”

Fleisig is the Research Director of the American Sports Medicine Institute and the Founding President of the American Baseball Biomechanics Society. He also serves as an advisor to Major League Baseball, Little League Baseball, and USA Baseball. After earning his engineering degree from MIT and interning at the US Olympic Training Center, Dr. Fleisig was hired in 1987 by renowned orthopaedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews to develop the American Sports Medicine Institute. Over a four-decade career, Dr. Fleisig has published more than 200 scientific articles on baseball biomechanics and other topics, delivered 400 presentations throughout the world, and has been interviewed for thousands of stories in the media.

Afterward, Fleisig was honored by SABR CEO Scott Bush as the recipient of the 2025 SABR Analytics Conference Lifetime Achievement Award.

• Watch: Click here to watch a video replay of Glenn Fleisig’s keynote talk (YouTube)

Here are some highlights from Fleisig’s talk:

On the origin of Tommy John surgery

• “Tommy was a lefty pitcher, a star pitcher for the Dodgers at this time [in 1974], and then he felt something funny in his elbow. He then went to see his team’s snappily dressed doctor, that’s Dr. Frank Jobe over here, and something was wrong with his elbow and Dr. Jobe talked to Tommy and he said — I’ve talked to the late Dr. Jobe about this — but basically Dr. Jobe said he’d thought about this because a different pitcher on the Dodgers a few years ago had his career end too briefly because of this kind of elbow injury. It was Sandy Koufax.”

On the causes of pitcher injuries

• “There was a consensus [in the 2024 MLB injury report]. Most of the people surveyed thought that chasing velocity and pitching at maximum effort (were) the number one causes. Other things identified in the report are chasing ‘stuff,’ like trying to get more spin and vertical break and horizontal break, a lot of the things that we talk about at this conference, and also amateur overuse. Professional baseball and amateur baseball are connected, and the kids who are playing year-round and getting drafted, they’re coming in with some damage already in their arm.”

On pitchers throwing as hard as they can

• “I’ve been trying to tell the teams and the pitchers that you are going to have a better career if you don’t throw every throw as hard as you can — that you have more durability, you’re not worth anything to anybody or yourself if you’re not pitching. And if we talk to the guys from 20 years ago, the All-Stars, they did not throw every throw as hard as they can. They didn’t have the radar gun in the stadium every time judging them.”

On scouting and the importance of velocity

• “A pitcher in high school or in the Dominican Republic or in college, they know that their ticket right now is the radar gun, not how many wins or strikeouts or whatever they have. If that’s what they’re being rewarded on, that’s what they’re doing. But if the major-league teams wake up and know that a guy with a little less velocity but good stuff might be more valuable, then the risks and rewards might change.”

On the stress placed on a pitcher’s elbow

• “What’s called a Valgus torque, you have like 100 Newton-meters. It’s a science term you might remember from high school physics, but it’s how much torque is going back. To try to translate what 100 Newton-meters is, 100 Newton-meters is the equivalent of holding 60 pounds in your hands. Imagine you’re in that position, someone is giving you like five 12-pound bowling balls to hold in this hand, imagine the stress on your elbow. That’s how much stress is on the elbow at that instant.”

Transcription assistance from Jack Barron.

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At the SABR Analytics Conference on Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, a Milwaukee Brewers Front Office 360 panel discussion was held to talk about their roles and careers in baseball.

• Watch: Click here to watch a video replay of the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers Front Office 360 Panel (YouTube)

Panelists included:

• Eric Babitz, Director of Player Acquisition
• Andrew Fox, Vice President, Baseball Research and Development
• Phil Hauser, Director of Baseball Data Engineering
• Everett Johnson, Senior Analyst, Baseball Research and Development
• Maggie Noffke, Manager of Baseball Application Development
• Daniel Oh, Senior Software Engineer
• Megan Stewart, Lead Strategist, Movement Solutions
• Dan Turkenkopf, Vice President, Baseball Strategy & Innovation

Here are some highlights from the panel:

On choosing a postgraduate degree

• Babitz: “My advice to people who want to work in baseball is that I wouldn’t recommend getting a degree in any field just because you want to work in baseball. It has to be something that you’re interested enough in where you would want to work in that field if you ended up outside of baseball.”

On balancing independent work and staying informed

• Fox: “I think it would be extremely naïve to think that we hold the secret to all the knowledge out there and that we can just beat everyone with our own internal ideas. We get a lot of our best ideas from seeing other things that are out there, often stuff produced by people in this room. We’re looking at that and seeing: How can we apply that? How can we tweak it? How can we extract parts of it to try and figure out what we can get the most out of for our purposes?”  

On the opportunities for Dominicans entering the front office

• Hauser: “I think the biggest is from the Dominican group we’ve got a good set of scouts down there and we have a good set of coaches down there that work and have been down there for quite a while. There are people that go through that move (on the) stat side.”

On the best career advice ever received

• Noffke: “When I first started getting into tech, I had a really strong mentor in my manager. I was really overwhelmed that there was a lot of stuff I’d never seen before, and she just told me, ‘Don’t be overwhelmed by the amount you don’t know, be excited by how much you don’t know and how much you can learn and how much opportunity is out there.’ I really took that to heart, and it really helped me.”  

On the most important ability in my current role

• Stewart: “I have the unique and awesome opportunity to deal with almost every single department that we have in the organization. Sometimes, the conversations that you have with the coaches don’t always align with things on a back-end, like data perspective, and so just continuing to develop the skill set to better bridge the gap between the different areas and be able to speak both sides of those languages so that you can cross-communicate when necessary across the organization.”

On whether the status of other teams would affect the team’s season goals  

• Johnson: “I think every team probably looks at them to some degree and has an idea going into the season, and naturally, based on injuries and the performance of the players that you have, you need to adapt to that. Where other teams stand is definitely relevant to context.”

On the balance between being a generalist and diving into one specific area

• Turkenkopf: “If you’re doing software in data, be specialized in software and data. But you could actually be even more specialized in those areas, like with computer vision, it could be a focus, and there’s opportunities for people who are very deep there. I think probably in general, some of the communication things we’ve talked about—being T-shaped or U-shaped, where you have depth or breadth across areas—does help, even if you do end up going deep in certain ones.”

How to keep getting better as a software engineer in the organization

• Oh: “It’s you’re always asking questions—how do I build a certain feature, or how do I get it perfectly right for the end users and what you’re trying to build? I think something I can always get better at is asking questions; that’s something you shouldn’t be afraid of.”  

Transcription assistance from Yun-Kai Guo.

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At the SABR Analytics Conference on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, a panel discussion was held on the Balance of Analytics and Culture.

Panelists included Burke Badenhop, Arizona Diamondbacks; Michael Girsch, St. Louis Cardinals; Max Glick, Arizona Diamondbacks. Moderator: Brian Kenny, MLB Network.

• Watch: Click here to watch a video replay of the 2025 Balance of Analytics and Culture Panel (YouTube)

Here are some highlights from the panel:

On communicating data to everyone on the team

• Glick: “We’re hiring a lot of former players, but also we want people with technical skills to be able to build the models and put everything together. … The ability to communicate it is probably more important than the ability to put it all together. It needs to be in the language of the players, the coaches, the scouts, as well as being digestible. Whether that’s visuals where everyone understands the picture or being able to translate it to Spanish, Japanese, Korean, whatever language the player speaks.”
• Badenhop: “We can dive as deep as we want into analytics stuff. It’s what we give to the player. It’s what we give to the coach. It’s knowing who our audience is and who can handle it and who necessarily can’t handle it. Because we want to get a result out of a player. We want to get a result out of the coach. So it doesn’t really matter how far we go in the front office as long as we know what is the right amount to give to that player.”
• Girsch: “I think the challenge for teams is building a culture of trust where analytics people can make mistakes in front of coaches and not be kicked out of the room, and coaches can ask silly questions to analysts and not be mocked.”

On how players respond to receiving new information

• Badenhop: “In meeting these kids, you can tell who has a chance to be a big leaguer. You can tell kids that maybe need to mature or maybe need to develop a lot of other interpersonal skills or some makeup stuff. So finding the kids that are big leaguers and then understanding who needs more data, who needs less data. I was a person who was very much a paralysis-by-analysis type guy. At Bowling Green State University, if you would have given me the expected OPS and all this stuff, I would have never gotten anybody out. … So we’ve got to know who can handle it, who can’t handle it, that type of stuff.”
• Girsch: “We have all that data, but not everyone in the organization has access to or uses all the data all the time. Our Double-A pitching coach needs to know the player as a person, as a human being, what makes him tick, how to give him advice, when to give him advice. … That coach needs to understand the player that way. The guy in the office whose job is to scrape the data from every college game that happened last night, to make sure it’s all in our database, doesn’t need to know any of those college kids. … Everyone’s got a role and those roles are different. I don’t think the importance of personal connection and knowing players as human beings has been diminished at all. It’s just the group who needs that is separate from the group who is sitting in the office working through code.”
• Kenny: “As you have so much data on a certain player, at what point do you try to [say], ‘Hey what kind of kid is this?’ … I love to see the statistical profile of a player, but … what’s motivating those numbers? Is this someone who can keep increasing, getting better? Is this someone who will go through a wall for you?”

On preparing for game environments

• Badenhop: “I like to think that all these numbers, it’s for practice. When we get in the game, we’ve got to get outs. … And thinking about, ‘Where’s that dot on my slider? I wish I had my iPad with my Rapsodo behind me right now, where would that be?’ The hitter in the box doesn’t care about that. That’s more of the me vs. you, mano y mano type of stuff. … Understanding that getting the player on the field, getting him to compete, having him prepared to make the best swing decision, the best pitch decision, or the best adjustment from the previous pitch decision, that’s all data. But at the end of the day, it’s getting it done on the field at that time.”

Transcription assistance from Eric Matsumoto.

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At the SABR Analytics Conference on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, a panel discussion was held on the Evolution of Baseball Analysts.

Panelists included Kyle Boddy of Driveline Baseball; Alex Caravan of Penn Interactive; Vivienne Pelletier of Arizona State University; and moderator Will Carroll, Under the Knife columnist.

• Watch: Click here to watch a video replay of the 2025 Evolution of Baseball Analysts Panel (YouTube)

Here are some highlights from the panel:

On pitching changes using data models

• Boddy: “When I was the director of pitching for the Cincinnati Reds, we used real-time pulse data … to make decisions on pitching changes with our fatigue models and a huge chronic workload ratio and used it as one piece of information. It helped because our Reds team had 13 non-drafted free agents and a lot of inexperienced players and young coaches who needed more guidance. So these pieces of technology and the live data were extremely valuable in making more intelligent pitching switches and led to the development of players like Carson Spiers who ended up in the big leagues after being a non-drafted free agent.”
• Caravan: “A couple of years ago sweepers became really popular across the league. If you look at most pitch-level models, sweepers are already declining relative to where they were a few years ago. Splitters were super popular last year, this year a lot of people are making an interesting case for cutters actually becoming quite valuable and undervalued by a lot of Stuff+ models. I think it’s constantly reactive even if you think you have all these metrics flushed out to accurately measure something.” 

On player injuries

• Boddy: “A player gets hurt, they disappear into spring training. And this is something the fans and perhaps people in this room don’t understand is that so-and-so had Tommy John (surgery) and in 18 months he’ll be back better than ever. But you know what it is day to day to deal with that? It’s some of the darkest darks of your life are being in rehab, throwing 60 miles per hour, hurting, and wondering, ‘Will I ever play again?’ There’s this huge psychological gulf.”
• Carroll: “There’s a player that got another torn ACL. His agent discovered a new technique that could get him back between five and six months rather than 12. The team elected not to do that because it’s new. They just flat-out refused and that player’s still not back.”

On the role of baseball analysts in the future

• Pelletier: “Coming from a position external to the industry and an academia perspective, I definitely see the role of an analyst as someone who can learn from the game, develop new knowledge, and then transmit that knowledge to other people so you can make decisions and eventually win baseball games. Fundamentally, I believe the role of an analyst is to learn about baseball.”

On public access to data

• Pelletier: “At the moment, especially on the public side, we don’t have access to pretty much any of the player-tracking data. We have swing speed and swing length and are about to get, maybe, player position in the box of hitters I’m thinking of. There are still ways for us to analyze these things and understand these things to develop an understanding of swings.”

On differing player development methods

• Caravan: “Not every player development department is the same, teams put different focuses in it. If people are around pro ball or in pro ball they know sometimes when teams target certain types of players like, ‘OK, that player is going to get a lot better.’ There’s a reason they targeted them. People have patterns that they go after all the time and certainly, players that have had mediocre careers with certain teams look like completely different players.”

On how fast technology changes

• Carroll: “One thing I think a lot of people don’t understand is how quickly the technology has moved. Kyle what was it in 2006 that you came to throw gyroballs with me? We didn’t have Rapsodo. He flew out all the way to Indianapolis to work out one day and people still said gyroballs didn’t exist.”

Transcription assistance from Jack Barron.

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At the SABR Analytics Conference on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, a team from MLB Statcast provided an update on system features related to Baseball Savant, automatic balls-and-strikes (ABS), and game notes.

Panelists included: Jason Bernard, Graham Goldbeck, Kevin Hanson, Do-Hyoung Park, and Mike Petriello from Major League Baseball.

• Watch: Click here to watch a video replay of MLB Statcast Updates: Baseball Savant, ABS, and Game Notes (YouTube)

Here are some highlights from the panel:

On the future of bat tracking

• Petriello: “The batter positioning thing was kind of an offshoot of our main winter project which was what’s next for bat tracking. Everyone’s always asking, ‘Hey, when can we get attack angles?’ Well, that is what this is going to be. This is going to come out a little bit after the batter stance stuff.”

On questioning baseball statistics

• Petriello: “You can have all the data you want and you can have all the right questions but then you actually have to sit down and define it and see, ‘Does this actually work in terms of what human beings playing baseball are trying to do?’ When we do miss distance, it’s not going to be about any point of the bat. It’s going to be about the top of the bat because that’s the point, even though technically there is below. That’s just sort of a window into the sort of questions we ask.”

On adding pitcher arm angle

• Bernard: “One of my favorite things we did last year is that you are able to make a GIF animation of al the pitchers and have it rotate so you see them kind of rotate around the person in the image. That really shows you the diversity of views that batters see and really gives you a perspective into how batting is, even more so today than just it’s a round ball and a round bat.”

On tracking batter positioning in 2025

• Park: “This is exciting data for a couple of reasons. I personally like this because it has a direct visual correlation to how we approach and absorb the game of baseball. This is not something you need to (study to) understand like a swing length or xwOBAcon. This is something where just from day one you look at a game of baseball, you notice how a guy sets up in his stance and where he sets up in the batter’s box even before the bat comes off his shoulder.”

On adding pulled air percentage in 2025

• Park: “This is data that’s been accessible to the intrepid Savant user in the past through our search tool but we felt it (was) an important service right now, especially at this point in time where hitting conversations are, to make this both more accessible, sortable through a leaderboard, filterable through more powerful leaderboard filters that you have on hand right now, and just because the distribution of batted balls and pulled airball percentage in particular are terms that are entering more of our hitting conversation.

On umpire strike calls outside ABS zone

• Goldbeck: “When you think in terms of (the strike zone), it’s not an exactly defined box, it’s more like, ‘Hey, is that a hittable pitch?’ Like an 0 and 2 pitch, you’re going to get a lot more weird sliders and you’re going to get sweepers and things like that. It’s a much harder time because they’re willing to give the benefit of the doubt.”

On player batting choices and the type of strike zone

• Goldbeck: “I think it comes down to people are swinging more based on what they think they can do rather than just where the zone is. And where the zone is kind of changes between full (swings) and challenges.”

On who makes and uses MLB game notes

• Hanson: “When you think about game notes there are sort of three levels of customers. There’s the PR staff that are compiling these, they’re compiling them for the broadcast and media members in the press box. And ultimately, a subset of that information gets served to fans.”

On the practical uses of game notes

• Hanson: “Any time you’re watching the game and someone hits a pinch-hit grand slam or a single player has two home runs in a single inning or one player has nine RBIs in a game and the broadcaster goes, ‘Oh, wow the last time that happened was in 2004 against the Rockies against this pitcher.’ The reason for that is they’re referencing their game notes really quickly.”

Transcription assistance from Jack Barron.

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At the SABR Analytics Conference on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, a panel discussion was held on How MLB Teams Utilize Biomechanics Big Data, presented by the American Baseball Biomechanics Society.

Panelists included Arnel Aguinaldo, Point Loma Nazarene University; Michael Sonne, Chicago Cubs; Megan Stewart, Milwaukee Brewers; Will Vandenberg, Los Angeles Dodgers. Moderator: Glenn Fleisig, Research Director, American Sports Medicine Institute.

• Watch: Click here to watch a video replay of the 2025 How MLB Teams Utilize Biomechanics Big Data Panel (YouTube)

Here are some highlights from the panel:

On what they use biomechanics for

• Aguinaldo: “Biomechanics is a tool. It’s not any different from what you’re doing for grip testing, ball testing, performance testing that they do on the field. The tool is only as good as those who are using it. … We pick up things here and there and try to understand as a biomechanist what we feel would be helpful and make recommendations. But I always go in and I tell every student, ‘Don’t be a coach. You’re not a coach. You’re not the pitching expert or hitting expert, you’re a biomechanist. Provide the information and then give your contributions.’ Hopefully it’ll benefit the player in the long run.”
• Stewart: “I think the really cool thing about biomechanics over the last couple of years is that you can collect so much data that you don’t always get to use it right away. And pitching has had the ability to have research published on it for many, many years, much more before hitting, and so they’ve just come so much further in the time that we’ve had this technology. With that being said, I think as with every team, pitching is probably the main focus of biomechanics with us as well.”
• Fleisig: “One of things with the new big data we could also look to see if someone gets hurt, what they looked like before they got hurt, and then what might have led to the injury. But also, if they’re rehabbing, you have a baseline of what they’re trying to get back to. Likewise, if someone goes into a slump, batting, pitching, whatever, you could always try to look back at their old data. So that’s one of the benefits of new biomechanics.”

On who sees biomechanics data

• Stewart: “I think it’s really important to make sure that all parties, departments, are involved in the process of the biomechanics data. Most of the time if you’re seeing something on this end, they’re probably also seeing it in the weight room or in the training room in some front. So having a conversation with the strength staff, and the medical staff, or your high-performance staff, your sport scientist staff, is really informational just so that you guys have a better picture of what you’re looking at.”
• Vandenberg: “We emphasize that the data is open to the players whenever they want to see it. Come in. And so players are often asking to see it themselves, too. It varies from player to player, some guys want nothing to do with it, some guys want to see every graph and every number. So we’re open to it. We’ll talk them through it as much as they want, but generally we go up to the coach because they have more context than we do to deliver it at the right time, in the right messaging.”

On merging biomechanics with kinesiology

• Sonne: “I think all of the three things, the return to performance, injury prevention and durability, and overall performance, they’re all hand in hand. I think people very traditionally have thought of them as three separate pillars but they’re all the same concepts, really.”

On sharing data with other teams

• Sonne: “The way that teams have done with collaborating on data, I could see a future — particularly with this MLB injuries report coming out — where teams maybe do move toward working together to publish something if we can keep a better product on the field … I would say if I find something that’s really, really an advantage for us, that definitely stays in-house. But I think there’s broader things, particularly data that can be shared with the greater population like here, that can help move things forward in the future.”

On what makes a winning team versus a losing team

• Fleisig: “I’ve been around a lot of major league teams, and I think one of the things that makes a winning team versus a losing team, is some teams have great interdisciplinary communication, and some teams have really sucky interdisciplinary communication, where the coaches don’t know what the strength coaches are doing and they don’t know what the doctors are doing. But the winning organizations, I think, have better communication.”

Transcription assistance from Emmy Mattingly.

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Dr. Glenn Fleisig of the American Sports Medicine Institute was honored with the SABR Analytics Conference Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Fleisig is the Research Director of the American Sports Medicine Institute and the Founding President of the American Baseball Biomechanics Society. He also serves as an advisor to Major League Baseball, Little League Baseball, and USA Baseball.

After earning his engineering degree from MIT and interning at the US Olympic Training Center, Dr. Fleisig was hired in 1987 by renowned orthopaedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews to develop the American Sports Medicine Institute. Over a four-decade career, Dr. Fleisig has published more than 200 scientific articles on baseball biomechanics and other topics, delivered 400 presentations throughout the world, and has been interviewed for thousands of stories in the media.

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