Mets Hire Adam Guttridge as Assistant General Manager of Systematic Development

As per Jon Heyman of FanCred Sports, the New York Mets are standing by their declaration to expand their analytics department and have hired former Brewers’ manager of baseball research and development Adam Guttridge as their assistant general manager of systematic development.

Guttridge, along with David Ogren, founded Normalized Empirical Individual Forecasting Index (NEIFI), a player evaluation firm who offers advanced talent assessments and projections system to all levels of professional baseball, as well as the NCAA.

He’s an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching Inside Baseball: Analytics in Action and, side note, Guttridge is a former writer for The Hardball Times, mostly reporting on the Florida State League as well as the 2009 MLB trade deadline. He also co-wrote a 2016 Fangraphs piece with Ogren titled The Future of Technology in Player Development.

Here’s Guttridge speaking on his automated prospect model in a video from this year’s MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

We’ll keep you posted as more information becomes available.