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The Panel This is our ten-man panel of experts for The Fielding Bible Awards: Bill James is a baseball writer and analyst published for more than thirty years. Bill is the Senior Baseball Operations Advisor for the Boston Red Sox. The BIS Video Scouts at Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) study every game of the season, sometimes multiple times, with the task to examine a huge list of valuable game details. The man who created Strat-O-Matic Baseball, Hal Richman, continues to lead his company’s annual in-depth analysis of each player’s season. Hal cautions SOM players that his voting on this ballot may or may not reflect the eventual 2007 fielding ratings for players in his game. Ballots were due prior to the completion of his annual research effort to evaluate player defense. Named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2003 and 2005, Joe Posnanski is a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated and occasional columnist for the Kansas City Star. For over twenty years, BIS owner John Dewan has collected, analyzed, and published in-depth baseball statistics and analysis. He wrote The Fielding Bible in 2006 and The Fielding Bible—Volume II in 2009. Mat Olkin is a sabermetrics consultant to major league teams and has studied, analyzed, and written about baseball players for almost fifteen years. Peter Gammons serves as a studio analyst on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight and Baseball Today. He also provides "Diamond Notes" and other reports for SportsCenter. Gammons has been a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine since December 1999 and contributes to ESPN.com. Rob Neyer writes baseball for ESPN.com and appears regularly on ESPN radio and ESPNews. Todd Radcliffe is Lead Video Scout at Baseball Info Solutions and brings 15 years of Major League Baseball scouting experience to the panel. The Tom Tango Fan Poll represents the results of a poll taken at the website, Tango on Baseball (Tangotiger.net). Besides hosting the website, Tom writes research articles devoted to sabermetrics. Our three tie-breakers are Steve Moyer, president of BIS, Dan Casey, veteran Video Scout at BIS, and Dave Studenmund, one of the founders of www.hardballtimes.com and the editor of The Hardball Times Baseball Annual. |
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