Simon Mathews

And I've been extremely fortunate over the past five or six years to fall into a career that allowed me to fall in love with the game again.

And then to have success to this point to where I'm being entrusted with this fabulous opportunity.

And I'm just I'm really grateful.

Yeah.

Um, I read the arm in college, uh, and, um,

that exposed me to the breadth, if not necessarily the depth of thinking that was going on in the progressive baseball sphere.

And I was the guy who,

You know, the summer after my sophomore year of college, I played summer ball and I threw, I think, 53 straight fastballs, 89 miles an hour, having never touched 90.

Right.

And I'm for my personal career.

I was like, what is going on?

And then I read I read the arm and there's this.

whole industry that's sort of blossoming in the game thinking about solving in a lot of ways the very question i was wrestling with myself um and a lot of the things just kind of made sense right the dots seemed to be kind of right next to each other right here i was extremely luckily

getting a degree in political economy from Georgetown where I'm taking a bunch of statistics courses that like maybe I certainly now can't apply to the world economy right but I've got I've got these skill sets that make it make it a little bit easier to draw these connections and I speak Spanish and I still throw 89 so I'm probably not going to be a big leaguer right but I keep getting guys out so maybe I can play pro ball right like all these kinds of things and

I don't know that there was ever necessarily a moment, but when I was playing pro ball, my last year in 2019, I made the decision to move to Seattle and train at driveline full-time for that fateful off-season of 19 into 20 to try and save my career in 2020.

Nailed that one.

And I think then it really clicked that...

This was going to be my last hurrah.

I was going to try and learn as much as I possibly could because my frame of reference as a former player was going to be really important as I got into whatever was next, and it seemed like that was going to be coached.

Awesome.