We’re looking to add to the MLBTR writing team, in a part-time position that pays hourly. The criteria:
- Availability to take a regular eight-hour Saturday shift running from 3-11pm central time. Strong availability on other days of the week would be a bonus.
- Exceptional knowledge of all 30 baseball teams, no discernible bias. Knowledge of hot stove concepts like arbitration, the competitive balance tax, and other aspects of the 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 X, X Pro, 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, Angels shortstop Zach Neto will become a free agent. Rather than give an explanation, simply write, “Neto question: [Year]” at the end.
Guess Mark is gone
You mean the steroid apologist? Bye
“eight-hour Saturday shift running from 3-11pm central time”
Ha, not for everybody.. Good luck to somebody…
If someone is looking for something to build out their resume, they’ll gladly take 8 hours on a Saturday.
Fonz02: When I was a college and high school sportswriter at a daily newspaper, we worked Saturdays covering public school and college football and basketball on Friday nights and Saturdays and Catholic school games on Sundays.
When I covered NCAA ice hockey, I wrote features and game stories for games played on Friday and Saturday nights.
While MLBTR doesn’t cover live games, any kind of sportswriting gig involves weekend work because that’s when a lot of news breaks.
It’s not 9-5 weekdays.
Need something between an upvote and mute to be able to respond appropriately to this commentary, Fonzo2.
“Eight hours a week?? I’m not a slave!”
Great opportunity. Best wishes for whoever lands it.
But the Angels better not let Neto reach free agency.
The winner of this writing contest will offer a lengthy explanation of possible extension contracts for Zach Neto, and show the comps used for the potential extension analysis.
By the way, I am an unbiased fan of Zach Neto.
Trade him to the Mets! Hand the 2b job to him.
I’m sending a boatload of talent back to the Angels. What’s fair Halo?
Why would the Mets give up on Williams?
Neto is beloved here. The cost would be crazy.
I dont think there is a cost. He’s going to be an Angel for a long time.
I’m just making silly commentary expressing my respect for Neto’s game.
Don’t worry not hitting FA until 2037 according to my application
This is the perfect job for Samuel
He would start talking about conspiracy theories
Or about how MLB is not “rotisserie league,” whatever that even is.
…wait, is the spectre of communism not a looming threat to the sports writing community?
Or for Pads Fans/outinleftfield/websoulsurfer.
I have to pay more attention. I don’t recall any of these referrals being worthy of the vote-of-confidence …from an entertainment point-of-view.
3 for the price of 1, for realz?? And to my knowledge don’t all three accounts present the same point of view, more or less? Probably just a convenience thing.
Sweet – For every one of his articles he’d have “Comments Closed”.
Be prepared for 8 page articles.
Cat – Yeah and I’m pretty sure his Saturdays are always wide open, so he’d have plenty of time.
Does he still write lengthy reviews of Mark’s chats in the comments section?
Lengthy is what he knows. Ask him if the sun is up and it will be noon before you finish reading his reply.
I’m not knocking the content of his posts (not all of it anyway) it’s just the length…… I mean….. I don’t need the baseball equivalent of War and Peace in the comment section. I tend to skip him anymore.
I have exceptional knowledge and passion for all 29 baseball teams.
(except for those damn pesky Cincinnati reds)
Love me those Reds, especially with Tito.
There should be an exception made for the Marlins fan should he/she apply. A nice Saturday evening away from the team would probably qualify as quality mental health care.
I asked Nedo. He doesn’t want the gig.
NEWSFLASH: The Miami Marlins are pretty good. You should watch in your free time.
NEWFLASH: You should hit balls better during your work hours, and worry about my free time less.
Better not win it all, they have a tradition of celebrating with a “EVERYTHING MUST GO” sale.
My Dog has Fleas
My Dog has Fleas
That will be 5 dollars please for writing for MLB TR
That’s the equivalent of what showed up on the field this year in Baltimore…………
was about ready to take a dump on word press but who ever did this site did well with it keeping the bloat mostly down. word press is still crap but only one board line bloaty thing that isn’t blocked is pretty impressive these days. :thumbs_up:
Should hire a proofreader
And someone who has passed stats 101 and finance 102
A good job for someone in their 20s. I almost did it for a local gig with high school/non-mainstream college sports.
It would have been 100-200 a week with early morning deadlines 2-3x/week and a weekend day with going to the games and writing them up. Fine for this insomniac! Back then you wrote the newspaper article, and it was either cut/pasted onto the web or you wrote a backup blurb.
Whoever takes MLBTR up on this, please run a grammar check on your stuff and take 5 minutes to proofread!
Trick question. What if he gets injured?
S-C
You’re not getting hired. Injuries and IL placements don’t effect service time
He could actually retire from a terrible injury.
The question needs more context and leaves a lot open and you merely proved my point.
SC
“He could actually retire from a terrible injury.”
Sure. You got me at my own game
The question doesn’t have the appropriate parameters. It’s a bad question that anyone could Google or chat gpt. I pointed out an issue.
Not trying to beat anyone brother.
Smart move posting this at midnight – it will be up hours before King of Cards posts ” must be a cubs fan” or something as stupid
But do the rumors have to be substantiated? Because I heard through the grapevine that Manny Machado plans to retire to become a barber. Also, there’s talk the Pirates are going to go gangbusters in the free agent market this winter. Money be damned.
What a wonderful world
I am definitely applying. This would be fun. I hope whoever gets it has a nice time with it and contributes to whatever their end game is career and lifestyle wise.
Death is the ultimate end game.
Were this 1971, I’d apply in a heartbeat. In those days I could have told you the Tigers’ 3rd-string catcher’s weight and rattled off the previous 29 batting orders of the Astros. Nowadays, I’m just not up on a lot of stuff.
I’m glad to know where to go ask for old Tigers info 🙂
Was very fond of the farm team in London Ontario (albeit shortlived) throughout my childhood. Glad to know there’s someone I can pick their brain about ol Tigers stats.
Regale us with stories of Billy Martin in the early 1970s. 1972 ALCS please.
I would apply as once upon a time, I did game summaries for a minor league team’s website and have a general love for the game.
But I avoid social media like the plague, especially the former Twitter.
Don’t just hire people who have writing experience. Hire people who actually know how to write. Like people who have done coursework in writing and can write news-type articles. Hiring a copy editor would not be a bad idea either.
Not sure copy editor is in the budget. For the most part, that’s fine. If I see their instead of there, I can ignore it by and large. I’d only have an issue if it’s stats that are wrong, a bad history of a player (saying he was drafted by the A’s when it was Arizona, for example), or bad links. I don’t see much of that, and I realize that as a news site, speed is very important on most of these posts. I’m ok with the spelling and grammar.
I wouldn’t expect it either but wanted to make the point. Maybe they could have someone do a quick review of the longer pieces and be paid by the piece. But not for spelling and grammar. Add clarity and remove redundancy and unnecessary verbiage as well as write in a professional news style
Who got fired?
Good luck to anybody who applies for this job! Make sure to follow their rules if you get hired.
They reposted it. Sheesh. Must have got the question wrong.
If I didn’t have kids, I’d probably want to give this a go. Not really for the money, more just because I love baseball.
The bias thing might be a little tough for me, though. I like some of the Pirates’ and A’s players and have nothing against their fans, but some seriously terrible ownership.
Beats driving for one of the ride share/food delivery apps.