Aaron Gleeman is a writer primarily covering the
Minnesota Twins for
The Athletic
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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'' 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, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
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. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (pro ...
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 la ...
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 and SLG is
slugging percentage. 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
American sportswriters
Writers from Saint Paul, Minnesota
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Baseball writers