Sabermetrician and Cleveland Indians Front Office
In 1998 while still employed full-time in software development and management, he became a regular contributor to the then fledgling Baseball Prospectus, for whom he wrote both for the annual book and the website. He also authored six chapters of Baseball Prospectus's book Baseball Between the Numbers, Jonah Keri, Ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2006) (ISBN 0-465-00596-9).
In May 2007, Woolner announced his departure from Baseball Prospectus to join the front office of the Cleveland Indians as their Manager of Baseball Research & Analytics. In this role, he is "responsible for advanced objective analysis, forecasting, and strategy analysis. working on integrating the information from the disparate worlds of scouting and stats in a way that makes each stronger."
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