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Hans van Slooten now Primary Developer for Baseball-Reference.com

Posted by sean on April 10, 2015

I am pleased to announce that Hans van Slooten has taken over day-to-day development of Baseball-Reference.com. Hans has been with Sports Reference for 15 months now and moved over from hockey to baseball last month. Hans is a long-time SABR member and a very talented developer. You are likely to see a bunch of improvements this summer with Hans on the site full-time rather than me on the site half-time. He's also a dedicated Twins fan, so he will not face the unneeded distraction of a deep postseason run by his favorite team. Hans is on twitter at @cantpitch.

I'm not going anywhere. I'm still President of Sports Reference and will certainly be involved in Baseball-Reference.com, just not with day-to-day responsibilities. With six full-time employees, I have a bit more a management role now, and we are also launching a new site this summer and expecting to roll out some changes to all of the sites this summer.

Related posts:

  1. Sports Reference Welcomes David Corby and Hans Van Slooten to Our Staff
  2. Sports Reference Welcomes Adam Wodon to Our Staff
  3. B-R: HoF Candidate – Juan Gonzalez
  4. B-R: HoF Candidate – Brian Jordan
  5. B-R: HoF Candidate – Vinny Castilla

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2 Responses to “Hans van Slooten now Primary Developer for Baseball-Reference.com”

  1. Todd Linden Says: April 10th, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    Under bullpen for Todd Linden it says he debuted on July 3rd...this is incorrect. He debuted on July 2nd against yu Darvish and the Nippon ham fighters. He had 2 hits off of Darvish including a 2b!

  2. Andy Andres Says: April 12th, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    Congratulations Hans! BRef is in great hands after the passing of the torch!