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Write For MLB Trade Rumors

By Tim Dierkes | July 21, 2022 at 4:04pm CDT

UPDATE: We are also seeking a writer who is available to work every Saturday from 7am-3pm central time.  Ultimately, we’re likely to make two hires.  If you’re interested in either the Saturday or the Sunday shift, please apply.  We have not yet looked at all the applications that we’ve received so far, but those who are advancing to the second round should hear back next week.

We’re looking to add to the MLBTR writing team, in a part-time position that pays hourly.  The criteria:

  • Availability to work every Sunday from 7am-3pm central time.  This would be your regular weekly shift.  The ability to occasionally fill in on Saturdays as well would be helpful.
  • Exceptional knowledge of all 30 baseball teams, no discernible bias. Knowledge of hot stove concepts like arbitration, the competitive balance tax, and new aspects of the latest collective bargaining agreement.
  • A high school degree is required, and further education is preferred. Please include your highest completed level of education in your application.
  • Writing experience is necessary, and online writing experience is preferred.
  • Attention to detail and ability to follow the MLBTR style and tone.
  • Ability to craft intelligent, well-written posts analyzing and contextualizing MLB hot stove news quickly and concisely.
  • Ability to use Twitter, Tweetdeck, and WordPress.  Experience with these is strongly preferred.
  • Ability to incorporate feedback to improve performance.
  • If you’re interested, email mlbtrhelp@gmail.com and explain how you stand out and qualify in a couple of short paragraphs.  Please attach your resume to the email.  We often receive several hundred applications, so unfortunately we will not be able to reply to each one.

At the end of your application, please fill in the blank:  After the ____ season ends, assuming he does not sign a contract extension or go to the minors, Tigers starting pitcher Tarik Skubal will become a free agent.  Rather than give an explanation, simply write, “Skubal question: [Year]” at the end.

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Comments

  1. AgentF

    11 months ago

    Fifteen years ago I would have been all over this opportunity. That was before my ambition to be a sports journalist was ruined by writing about offshore oil exploration. Very happy to be where I’m at now (teacher), but this is a great opportunity for someone to gain a foothold and build a resume. Classy move to appeal to the potential talent that exists amongst your followers.

    Reply
    • Dom2

      11 months ago

      i’m am going two get dis job;

      Reply
      • tiredolddude

        11 months ago

        Ah, appealing to the high school crowd is exactly what the game needs. Good luck!

        Reply
  2. HidekiMatsuimalemodel

    11 months ago

    I want to write about my dream to manage a pro baseball team and wear a suit like Connie Mack as manager. Hire me asap MLB trade rumors!

    Reply
    • vadergator1

      11 months ago

      Connie Mack is my great great great uncle I’m not joking

      Reply
      • vtadave

        11 months ago

        is?

        Reply
  3. tstats

    11 months ago

    If I had my college education, I would take it

    Reply
    • YourDreamGM

      11 months ago

      You should apply anyways if you are a decent writer and really want it. Your competition put in 4 years of time and money and are either awful writers or have such a weak work ethic they are applying for a 1 day a week job.

      Reply
      • johnrealtime

        11 months ago

        Or the third option that this would be a side gig for them. Really doubt that whoever they hire is going to have this be their sole job. Writers often have many concurrent jobs like this one

        Or the 4th option that this would be one of their first paying writing jobs and it is more valuable on the resume than anything else. Would be a great new grad opportunity IMO

        Reply
    • Dom2

      11 months ago

      hahahahaha. I applie an i’m am going two got.

      Reply
  4. AverageCommenter

    11 months ago

    I would apply, but I’m too lazy to look up when Tarik Skubal will reach free agency.

    Reply
    • signenderinciarte

      11 months ago

      Go to baseball reference and you will see lol

      Reply
      • elmedius

        11 months ago

        … but then you’ve got to scroll down past the advertisement up top and random pictures of players that are sometimes distracting and take you down a rabbit hole. Don’t get me started on the jersey numbers. It’s just not worth it… sigh.

        Reply
    • MarlinsFanBase

      11 months ago

      Watch Deven Marrero and that will cover half of your rumor articles for the year.

      Reply
    • jimmertee

      11 months ago

      2026

      Reply
    • slam761

      11 months ago

      You would be fine for this job. The good thing about writing for this site is you can get half the stuff wrong and you don’t even need to correct it.

      Reply
  5. Ben S

    11 months ago

    Sucks i’m a kid… oof i guess?

    Reply
    • Dom2

      11 months ago

      haha i’m am going two get dis job an bee best righter four MLB trad rumers.

      Reply
      • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

        11 months ago

        Who is this boob?

        Reply
    • mrperkins

      11 months ago

      I’d have aced this job when I was a kid (15-17). I used to read every box score and Baseball Weekly cover to cover each issue. Could tell you any players BA, HR total, or ERA within a very slight margin. Then real life hit and I don’t have time for that. Hire some 16yr old kid and he will be lead writer in 2 years. Well, assuming he can write without using emojis and lols.

      Reply
  6. 13Morgs13

    11 months ago

    Good teams are good, bad teams are bad…did I get the job?

    Reply
    • MannyPineappleExpress9

      11 months ago

      No, because some teams aren’t good, even though they have a good record, and some teams aren’t bad even though their record blows.
      Also, [insert team A here] is better than [insert team B here] despite being in last place by 20+ games, because they beat B 3 out of 4 head to head that 1 time.
      Other than those minor details, you’re on the “maybe next round of hiring” list.

      Reply
      • nosoupforyou

        11 months ago

        Dood, he was making a joke

        Reply
        • MannyPineappleExpress9

          11 months ago

          Seriously?
          And what’s a dood?

        • miggy4prez

          11 months ago

          Manny, you need some Pineapple Express.

        • MannyPineappleExpress9

          11 months ago

          Don’t understand that either

        • SteaknBeer

          11 months ago

          Some pot, grass, herb, Mary Jane, the sticky icky, the cali greens. Get some marijuana son and pack it up so you can laugh at yourself with the rest of us

  7. vtadave

    11 months ago

    To all the applicants. The answer to the Skubal question is 2024.

    Reply
    • kscheer

      11 months ago

      LOL its actually 2031

      Reply
  8. sufferfortribe 2

    11 months ago

    And give up the opportunities to troll others on here? Not a chance.

    Reply
    • Dom2

      11 months ago

      i’m am geting tah job.

      Reply
      • SteaknBeer

        11 months ago

        Sillyman is that you ?

        Reply
      • C Yards Jeff

        10 months ago

        @Dom2; youse an alum of da Evelyn Woodhead sped reddin’ coarse too?

        Reply
  9. hiflew

    11 months ago

    I already write for you in an unpaid position and I have since around 2009. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

    Reply
  10. whyhayzee

    11 months ago

    “no discernible bias”

    I’m out.

    Reply
    • Msteele

      11 months ago

      Hilarious but true. Let’s start a thread on who finds wit and humor more interesting than arbitration. Call it

      “the in between hops”

      Reply
  11. unclemike1525

    11 months ago

    I’d have to move back in to my mothers basement. Nahhh. Thanks but no thanks.

    Reply
    • Roy DeMeo

      11 months ago

      Back?

      Reply
    • raltongo

      11 months ago

      With this shift, you could at least temporarily leave your mother’s basement and go work quietly from the back pew at church.

      Reply
  12. Andujar

    11 months ago

    Sports fans know how to read and write?

    Reply
    • Dom2

      11 months ago

      my reding an righting skils our the best out of evry won hear.

      Reply
  13. signenderinciarte

    11 months ago

    If only It was a year from now I could apply. I’m a senior in high school lol.

    Reply
    • positively_broad_st

      11 months ago

      Check back next season. It might come up again…

      Reply
    • SteaknBeer

      11 months ago

      Get some practice not using lol after every sentence while you have the time. And as pointed out earlier No emojis either

      Reply
  14. positively_broad_st

    11 months ago

    I got published once. I’d apply if my town had a decent home internet service company. I do everything online on the mobile phone, but I wouldn’t want to write essays on a mobile device. I don’t know, maybe I should move…

    Reply
  15. cainer18

    11 months ago

    Does the MLBTR comments section count as writing experience? If so, I would do good writes for you long time

    Reply
  16. thenoid

    11 months ago

    This is the best comment section I have seen

    Reply
    • thenoid

      11 months ago

      But I love you trade rumors

      Reply
  17. Rounding3rd

    11 months ago

    Do “Letters to the Editor” count?

    “Get off my infield grass!”

    Reply
  18. Dom2

    11 months ago

    i’d would bee grate four dah job;

    Reply
    • Roy DeMeo

      11 months ago

      We git it already Dom. Your a vary good righter and wood be a grate edition two the teem. How meny times you going to say it?

      Reply
      • hiflew

        11 months ago

        Some people just love to beat a joke into the ground. You can fix them, just learn to tolerate them.

        Reply
    • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

      11 months ago

      Can someone please tell Shakespeare (Dom) to put a sock in it. It’s not funny, it’s annoying

      Reply
      • SteaknBeer

        11 months ago

        Pot meet kettle curly

        Reply
  19. bravesfan

    11 months ago

    Would love this job! Although I’m pretty checked in to all of the league, I might have a bit of a bias towards 1 team. Lol

    Reply
    • MannyPineappleExpress9

      11 months ago

      Really? Which one?

      Reply
      • Brew88

        11 months ago

        I think he’s a Mets fan

        Reply
        • bravesfan

          11 months ago

          Lol. Can’t even fake being a Mets fan. life is too short lol

        • Brewer88

          11 months ago

          Heh heh heh

  20. tiredolddude

    11 months ago

    Retired teacher, coach, athlete of negligible regard who was once a journalist, as well, and now writes with apparent frustration about a local team
    One day a week might mean a day off from watching Jimmy “Dyno-mite” Walker and Joe Namath telling me to call for added Medicare benefits “Nowwwww”
    Hmmm.

    Reply
  21. SuperGM

    11 months ago

    Let me discuss it with my agent, Scott Boris, first.

    Reply
    • gbs42

      11 months ago

      Scott Boras probably would have been a better choice.

      Reply
      • MannyPineappleExpress9

        11 months ago

        I thought it was Boris the animal

        Reply
        • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

          11 months ago

          Boris is a spider & he’s on the web

  22. mazbilleroski

    11 months ago

    I want the job. I have exceptional knowledge of all team and players. I know exactly how many field goals Aaron Judge has made, as well as Clayton Kershaw’s third down conversion rate.

    Reply
  23. jessaumodesto

    11 months ago

    I’m interested in writing 2-3 times a year.

    Reply
  24. pepicellis

    11 months ago

    Just as long as the new writer NEVER uses “slash.” I cringe every single time I read that a player is “slashing .200…”

    Reply
    • gbs42

      11 months ago

      Well, it’s commonly referred to as the triple-slash line.

      Reply
  25. gbs42

    11 months ago

    I was thinking about applying, but it looks like Dom2 has the job locked up.

    Reply
  26. Old York

    11 months ago

    Saturday is impossible when the kids have sports activities and tournaments. Any graveyard shifts?

    Reply
  27. baseballhobo

    11 months ago

    Would I be required to watch baseball?

    Reply
    • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

      11 months ago

      Only if you can stay awake… And be required to adore Juan Soto

      Reply
  28. MarlinsFanBase

    11 months ago

    Why would I want to work with the guy whose job it is to create troll accounts to keep people coming to this site?

    Reply
  29. 377194

    11 months ago

    Du yu haf tu rite gud anglish?

    Reply
  30. Msteele

    11 months ago

    What’s the sign on bonus?

    I think this position has a certain slot value? I didn’t see this in fine print?

    But I could be swayed or end up in my sweet NIL college?

    Reply
  31. Michalelchavisbooty

    11 months ago

    Where’s cosmo when u need him

    Reply
  32. wesstl

    11 months ago

    I’d be perfect for the job but I can’t be up by 7am on the weekends.

    Reply
    • SteaknBeer

      11 months ago

      Join today and you can write the next post that begs people to subscribe

      Reply
  33. yankista

    11 months ago

    This is the WORST Sport APP I ever seen …. Damm
    Are u guys making money stealing I formation every 5/7 days a week ???

    Reply
  34. em650r

    11 months ago

    Who ever started the MLB 2022 draft didn’t even finish the rest of the draft.

    Reply

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