Aaron Gleeman is an American writer primarily covering the
Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League Central, Central Division. The team is named afte ...
for ''
The Athletic
''The Athletic'' is a subscription-based sports journalism department of ''The New York Times''. It provides national and local coverage in 47 North American cities as well as the United Kingdom. ''The Athletic'' also covers national stories ...
'' and is the former Editor-in-Chief at Baseball Prospectus.
He co-hosts Gleeman and the Geek, a Twins Baseball podcast. He was the co-founder and main operator of the baseball statistics website, ''
The Hardball Times
The Hardball Times (abbreviated as THT) is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabe ...
'' before leaving to write for NBC Sports. In 2006, Gleeman was featured in a short profile in
Sports Illustrated
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.
He is the author of the book, “The Big 50: Minnesota Twins: The Men and Moments that Made the Minnesota Twins.”
Biography
Gleeman is a graduate of
Highland Park High School in
St. Paul, MN. After high school, he attended the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...
as a
journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...
major. However, the
Minnesota Daily
The ''Minnesota Daily'' is the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota, published Monday and Thursday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions. Published since 1900, the paper is currently the ...
did not hire him as a staff writer, despite annual attempts (although they did give him one freelance story which ran on the Daily website) and Gleeman eventually dropped out of the University without obtaining his degree.
Contributions to sabermetrics
On November 25, 2003, Gleeman used his blog to introduce a new statistic called Gleeman Production Average.
The name was later changed to
Gross Production Average to make it more palatable. The formula is
:
where OBP is
on-base percentage
In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) measures how frequently a batting (baseball), batter reaches base (baseball), base. An official Major League Baseball (MLB) statistic since 1984, it is sometimes referred to as on-base average (OBA ...
and SLG is
slugging percentage
In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at-bats, through the following formula, where ''AB'' is the number of at-bats for a given player, an ...
. The result is a number that resembles a batting average but reflects the player's ability to avoid outs and hit for power.
References
External links
The Hardball TimesThe Big 50: Minnesota Twins: The Men and Moments that Made the Minnesota Twins
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American male bloggers
American bloggers
Living people
1983 births
University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni
Writers from Saint Paul, Minnesota
21st-century American male writers
Baseball writers
Sportswriters from Minnesota