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...worked, and brilliantly. Walsh and a cast of versatile, professional ballplayers like Dave Forst '98 and Brian Ralph '98, four-year starters Hal Carey '99 and Peter Woodfork '99 and tri-captains Erik Binkowski, Jeff Bridich and Jason Larocque resuscitated a bush-league program and made it the unabashed terror of New England baseball...
...Forst began work as Baseball Operations Assistant in January. In this capacity, he performs many of the researching duties that DePodesta had in Cleveland. He also manages a large portion of Oakland's independent statistics base, primarily using a computerized method known as BATS...
...BATS is a program that about eight teams in the majors use now," Forst explains. "A lot of my job is replaying each pitch and charting it on the program. It's pretty important information to have for our research, both for hitters and for pitchers...
...When I first got here, the first thing I noticed was how many people go into making something like this work," Forst remembers...
...your name out there," Forst recommends. "Do whatever you can to get your name out. A Harvard degree will always get at least some attention, but after that, you've got to stay motivated. You've got to be willing to make the phone calls...