Season 4 Episode 35 is out with Alex Reynolds. He is currently a pitching intern at Cressey Sports Performance located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. He graduated from Babson College with a M.S. in Business Analytics. While also graduating B.A. in a Business Analytics and Finance. He played 5 years of college baseball at Babson and his main position was a catcher

Alex talks about why he picked business analytics as a major and why it’s such a good degree for future analytically mindset individuals. During his time at Babson, he underwent Tommy John Surgery. During this time, Alex along with Eric Schoenberg wanted to create a platform for athletes to share their experiences and offer support with their TJ Surgery & rehab process.

Alex explains his overall role at Cressey and what the future of CSP Pitching entails. Within Cressey, Alex is able to dive completely into the development side of pitching while using his analytical skills to provide value within overall player progression profiles.

Timestamps

Intro (1:20)

Alex’s background includes – M.S. in Business Analytics and Playing Career (2:30)

Tommy John Experience and Tommy John Club (4:45)

Business Analytics experience within the school including projects & simulations (9:00)

Favorite Computer Languages and what he uses at Cressey SP (11:30)

Why Business Analytics is one of the best routes for a future career (15:25)

Overall role as a pitching intern at Cressey Sports Performance (19:30)

Using catching background towards pitching development (22:00)

Cressey Pitching Performance Player Reports (28:00)

Stuff + metric towards player development (31:00)

The biggest learning curve working at Cressey SP (35:30)

Favorite sabermetrics towards pitching (39:30)

Favorite Player Development technology (43:20)

Player Development progression over the next 5 years (47:00)

Closing (50:00)