AUSTIN YAMADA
Manhattan Beach,CA
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Contributor
Establish The Run NBA
10.2024 - Current
- Find profitable player prop and side/total bets to release to subscribers.
- Help with daily minutes and statistical projections, including editing baseline inputs on the backend of the model.
- Contribute to weekly podcasts and Daily Fantasy Sports live shows.
Contributor
Baseball America
04.2024 - 12.2024
- Maintained midseason organization top 30 prospect lists for Seattle Mariners, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, and Arizona Diamondbacks, and helped create midseason top 100 prospect list.
- Wrote the Miami Marlins and Seattle Mariners Top 30 Prospects sections for the 2025 Baseball America Handbook.
Coordinator, Player Personnel
Seattle Mariners
12.2018 - 11.2023
- Helped hire and train pro scouting field staff, and coordinated schedules and player targets.
- Consistently read pro scouting reports from field staff, compiling and relaying relevant info and reports/flags to send to leadership (new info, risers, fallers, underrated, overrated, etc).
- Helped manage and maintain top 30 prospect lists for each of the 29 other MLB organizations.
- Participated in player personnel decisions throughout season (trade deadline, waiver wire, major and minor league FA, Rule 5, Winter Meetings).
- Scouted in the field (Spring Training backfields, MiLB regular season, amateur games, Arizona Fall League).
Contributing Writer
Baseball Prospectus & Beyond the Box Score
12.2015 - 05.2018
- Wrote articles for the two websites, analyzing players and trends both through a sabermetric and a scouting lens, aiming to make the article both interesting and easily digestible for the reader.
Intern
Wasserman
06.2017 - 08.2017
- Prepared statistical support for upcoming free agents, produced a research project on the overcorrection and over-penalization of Coors Field park factors, and updated databases.
Intern
STATS LLC
05.2015 - 08.2016
- Created analytical reports for MLB TV broadcast clients with Tableau, wrote MLB game notes for broadcasts/newspapers, and compiled college basketball data for annual NCAA March Madness Guide.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
University of Southern California
05.2018
Timeline
Contributor
Establish The Run NBA
10.2024 - Current
Contributor
Baseball America
04.2024 - 12.2024
Coordinator, Player Personnel
Seattle Mariners
12.2018 - 11.2023
Intern
Wasserman
06.2017 - 08.2017
Contributing Writer
Baseball Prospectus & Beyond the Box Score
12.2015 - 05.2018
Intern
STATS LLC
05.2015 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Science -
University of Southern California