The Panel

This is our ten-man panel of experts for The Fielding Bible Awards:

Bill James is a baseball writer and analyst and the Senior Baseball Operations Advisor for the Boston Red Sox

The BIS Video Scouts at Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) study every game of the season, sometimes multiple times, with the task to examine a huge list of valuable game details.

The man who created Strat-O-Matic Baseball—Hal Richman.

Named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2003 and 2005, Joe Posnanski is a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated and occasional columnist for the Kansas City Star.

For over twenty years, BIS owner John Dewan has collected, analyzed, and published in-depth baseball statistics and analysis. He wrote The Fielding Bible in 2006 and The Fielding Bible—Volume II in 2009.

Doug Glanville played nine seasons in Major League Baseball and was well known for his excellent outfield defense. Currently, he is a baseball analyst at ESPN, primarily on Baseball Tonight, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.;

Hall-of-Famer Peter Gammons serves as on-air and online analyst for MLB Network, MLB.com, and NESN (New England Sports Network)

After nearly fifteen years with ESPN.com, Rob Neyer joined SB Nation as National Baseball Editor in 2011. He has written six books about baseball.

Mark Simon has been a researcher for ESPN Stats & Information since 2002. He has worked on Baseball Tonight, co-hosts the Baseball Today podcast, and contributes regularly (sometimes on the subject of defense) to ESPNNY.com and ESPN.com.

The Tom Tango Fan Poll represents the results of a poll taken at the website, Tango on Baseball (Tangotiger.net). Besides hosting the website, Tom writes research articles devoted to sabermetrics.

Our three tie-breakers are Ben Jedlovec, vice president of Baseball Info Solutions and coauthor of The Fielding Bible—Volume III, Dan Casey, veteran Video Scout at BIS, and Dave Studenmund, one of the founders of www.hardballtimes.com.