Analytics Intern: Pitching

The Lake Erie Crushers are searching for a 2025 Baseball In-game Tagging and Pitching Metrics Intern. This is an UNPAID Internship and candidates are REQUIRED to receive college credit to qualify for this position. Candidates MUST be able to provide their own housing, transportation to and from the stadium, AS WELL AS their own computer.

The In-game Tagging and Pitching Metrics Intern will assist the Baseball Analytics Coordinator in the collection and cleansing of Trackman data, focusing on pitching metrics. These pitching metrics include, but are not limited to, pitch type, velocity, spin rate, vertical break, induced vertical break, horizontal break, tilt, and extension.

The In-game Tagging and Pitching Metrics Intern will be involved in a brand new Baseball Analytics Department, facilitating the collection, uploading, and storage of Yakkertech data on all Frontier League teams. This individual will work with the Crushers’ Baseball Analytics Coordinator and the Baseball Hitting Metrics Intern in helping the players reach their full potential and ensuring that the Baseball Analytics Department has accurate and timely data.

This individual will ensure that the coaches have professional pitcher development reports and scouting videos for opponents’ pitchers. You will also be responsible for providing the coaches with information in preparation for every Crushers game. You will meet daily (when the Crushers are home) with the Baseball Analytics Coordinator and Baseball Hitting Metrics Intern to discuss their tasks, responsibilities, and Baseball Analytics projects.

A competitive candidate will be an excellent communicator, be able to complete analytical tasks concerning baseball pitching metrics effectively and on time, be extremely organized and detail oriented, and be proficient in using technologies such as Google Slides, iMovie, and Google Docs to create professional sports videos, reports, and presentations.

Qualifications

• Ability to work extended hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays throughout May – August/September 2025
• Ability to work in-person in Avon, OH for all Crushers’ home games throughout the time period listed above
• Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and organizational skills
• Ability to communicate baseball pitching metrics (velocity, spin rate, induced vertical break, horizontal break, tilt) to coaches, players, scouts, and other baseball executives
• High level of familiarity with the current state of baseball pitching research
• High level of familiarity with Baseball Reference, FanGraphs, and Baseball Savant, experience with Pointstreak is a plus
• Experience using Google Sheets in a sports-related context
• Experience creating presentations/reports in a sports-related context through Word, Google Docs, Powerpoint, or Google Slides
• Experience editing and working with large .csv files
• Experience using iMovie in a sports-related context
• Prior in-game tagging experience with Yakkertek, Trackman, etc.
• Experience with BaseballCloud, past internships in the Frontier League, and having played baseball/softball is a plus
• Studying Undergraduate or graduate degree in a field that emphasizes technical and analytical problem-solving skills or is related to sports, such as mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or sports management

Responsibilities

• The In-Game Tagging and Pitching Metrics Intern will report to the Baseball Analytics Coordinator and will assist in all Baseball Operations tasks focused on in-game tagging, pitching metrics, opponents’ pitchers’ scouting, pitching development, and pitch data collection and analysis
• Tag all home games from the press box using Trackman
• Go through every Frontier League game .csv file and correct tagged pitch type classifications
• Manage all Frontier League individual game .csv files and full season .csv files
• Upload Crushers’ individual game .csv files and every teams’ full season .csv file to BaseballCloud
• Collect start/outing metrics for Crushers’ pitchers after every game
• Complete the pitchers’ side of scouting reports for coaches for every series through BaseballCloud/AnalyzR in Google Docs
• Complete the pitchers’ side of scouting reports for players for every series through BaseballCloud/AnalyzR in Google Docs
• Work on the pitchers’ side of monthly player development reports in Google Slides for the coaches to monitor player development and be prepared to have discussions with scouts who are interested in our players
• Create videos of opponents’ starting pitchers + relievers in iMovie
• Create videos of Crushers’ Pitchers’ starts and relievers’ outings for every series in iMovie
• Perform ad-hoc research projects and assignments as requested

This is an unpaid internship, and no housing is provided. College credit MUST be awarded for completion of this internship.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class