Padres hire FanGraphs’ Dave Cameron

Well, this is cool. I’m a little behind in hearing about it since for some reason when I woke up I went straight into washing-dishes-while-listening-to-Brian-Fallon mode instead of immediately scrolling through Twitter on a cold white seat as I tend to do, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the news that the Padres have hired Dave Cameron to head up their Research and Development department. One of the great analytical minds in the game, Cameron had spent just shy of the past decade enlightening us with his work at FanGraphs.

Cameron made the announcement in his final post at FanGraphs. You should definitely go read the whole thing, but here’s a little taste:

I definitely wasn’t looking to…