The Thanksgiving holiday means a lot of things to a lot of different people. For me, this year’s holiday provided me with an opportunity to step away from work for a few days and enjoy some much needed time with my family. For the Baltimore Orioles, they used the day before Thanksgiving to drastically improve their front office, by officially hiring Sig Mejdal.
Mejdal was originally an engineer for NASA but has spent the past 14 years working in baseball. Starting in 2005, Mejdal was hired as a sabermetrician for the St. Louis Cardinals. He would go on to serve in several roles with the club, including as a senior quantitative analyst and as their director of amateur draft analysis.