For those who think baseball analytics has reached its zenith, Michael Schwimer has an unequivocal response.
“The idea that everyone in baseball has access to all the data and that the ‘Moneyball’ era is dead, I disagree,” Schwimer said. “I firmly disagree.”
He is the founder and CEO of Big League Advance, an analytics-focused sports startup that’s begun to draw attention for its ambitious minor league baseball business model.
“This is really what we do as a company.”
As a recent Sports Illustrated article on the company explained, Big League Advance seeks to provide woefully underpaid minor league players short-term financial help in exchange for a percentage of the player’s career earnings.