Jonah Keri to be a Blue Jays Central regular. Hired as "MLB analytics expert".

[Spoonovic]

.@Sportsnet's MLB roster keeps growing with @jonahkeri joining Blue Jays Central throughout season as MLB analytics expert. Debuts April 8

 

 

Rogers has done a pretty good job of assembling some talented people. Ben Nicholson-Smith, Shi Davidi, Stephen Brunt, Arden Zwelling are all pretty great. The recent additions of Jonah Keri and Dan Shulman are even more amazing.

 

Rogers gets a lot of flack around here but we should give them credit for this.

[BTS]

solid hire

[Angrioter]

solid hire

 

Who's that Keri guy?

[John_Havok]

solid hire

 

Can't wait for a Keri / Zaun head to head opinion segment.

[GD]

Yesssssssssssss

[bendera3]

Can't wait for a Keri / Zaun head to head opinion segment.

 

Keri will give statistical reasoning on why a move was made and Zaun will say it "just doesn't feel right."

[KingKat]

Keri will give statistical reasoning on why a move was made and Zaun will say it "just doesn't feel right."

 

Keri is a very easy going guy. This won't be like Hayhurst. There won't be fireworks. Keri will use humour and self-deprecation to defuse potential arguments.

[KingKat]

Who's that Keri guy?

 

He wrote a pretty good book about The Rays and an excellent book about The Expos. He was also the main baseball writer for Grantland. He's a Montrealer originally.

Edited April 1, 2016 by KingKat

[G-Snarls]

This is awesome news

[Boxcar]

He wrote a pretty good book about the Rays and an excellent book about The Expos. He was also the main baseball writer for Grantland. He's a Montrealer.

 

*facepalm*

[Jonn]

Wow very good hire.

[KinofChaos]

Jays getting with the times, good s***.

 

Can't wait for a Keri / Zaun head to head opinion segment.

 

The "manalist" will disagree with most analytics.

[TheHurl]

he is so f***ing uncomfortable in front of the camera...the love won't last long.

[Jonzo]

Who's that Keri guy?

 

Some jew

[crazy47larry]

awesome. love jonah keri. cant wait for all you guys to link me to his latest jays articles.

[Inklink]

Because sportsnet didn't have enough Jewish guys covering baseball.

 

Good hire.

[burlingtonbandit]

I wonder if he will ever do any interviews. I love his podcasts and he seems to get the best out of the players he has on.

[HERPDERP]

Balances out Gregg Zaun

[Spanky99]

Most, will hate him.

[KingKat]

Most, will hate him.

 

I doubt that. He's pretty balanced. He never discounts scout opinions completely and he's not actually "an analytics expert", not by any stretch even if Sportsnet wants to call him that. He's just a regular sports writer who understands their importance, in part because he's also covered economics.

[Nafro]

Who's that Keri guy?

 

He's the United States Secretary of State silly!

[TheHurl]

Most, will hate him.

 

Speaking of hated...with Sportsnet seemingly affiliating themselves with PitchTalks (and the April 7th lineup is actually pretty fantastic) is it possible that they'd be stupid enough to hire Stoeten?

[KingKat]

Speaking of hated...with Sportsnet seemingly affiliating themselves with PitchTalks (and the April 7th lineup is actually pretty fantastic) is it possible that they'd be stupid enough to hire Stoeten?

 

That wouldn't really be stupid. Stoeten has his niche.

[TheHurl]

That wouldn't really be stupid. Stoeten has his niche.

 

Can you put someone on air that just regurgitates what other people on air say? Plus he's ugly as s*** and dumb as f***! Legitimizing him as a journalist would be just wrong.

[KingKat]

Can you put someone on air that just regurgitates what other people on air say? Plus he's ugly as s*** and dumb as f***! Legitimizing him as a journalist would be just wrong.

 

There are far dumber people that have been legitimized as journalists. It's time to let go of the bitterness people.

[Laika]

There are far dumber people that have been legitimized as journalists. It's time to let go of the bitterness people.

 

I think Stoeten is just too lazy to take a legitimate job like that.

[KingKat]

I think Stoeten is just too lazy to take a legitimate job like that.

 

That's fair but there's a history drunk lazy *******s making it in baseball (and I mean that affectionately).

[burlingtonbandit]

Can you put someone on air that just regurgitates what other people on air say? Plus he's ugly as s*** and dumb as f***! Legitimizing him as a journalist would be just wrong.

 

I doubt it especially since he hates Rogers and tweets his hatred about them lol. They already have Tao of Stieb who writes articles from time to time as their "blogger"

[Boxcar]

That's fair but there's a history drunk lazy *******s making it in baseball (and I mean that affectionately).

 

Not sure if you know but Spanky never actually went pro.

[TheHurl]

Not sure if you know but Spanky never actually went pro.

 

at least not in baseball