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Eric Longenhagen

Biography

Eric Longenhagen

Eric Longenhagen is the FanGraphs Lead Prospect Analyst. His career in baseball began in 2008, the youngest of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs' inaugural crop of interns. He'd go on to work at Baseball Info Solutions and begin writing for various publications, like Crashburn Alley and Sports on Earth, before contributing to ESPN's prospect coverage starting in 2015. He has been at FanGraphs since 2016.

Eric Longenhagen

Books by Eric Longenhagen

by Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel - Nonfiction, Sports

For the modern major league team, player evaluation is a complex, multi-pronged, high-tech pursuit. But far from becoming obsolete in this environment⁠ --- as Michael Lewis' MONEYBALL once forecast⁠ --- the role of the scout in today's game has evolved and even expanded. Rather than being the antithesis of a data-driven approach, scouting now represents an essential analytical component in a team's arsenal. FUTURE VALUE is a thorough dive into the world of the contemporary scout --- a world with its own language, methods, metrics and madness.