The MLB Winter Meetings: What Do You Do? Sig Mejdal

Sig Mejdal, made a little famous in the fantasy world circuit for his role in Sam Walker's great book Fantasyland (a must read if you love baseball back stories), is an Analyst for the St. Louis Cardinals.  That means he's very, very smart and pours over numbers like summer moths on white light.  I asked him this: At the MLB winter meetings, what do you do?  Here's his answer:

"Part of my responsibility is our mathematical models. While we have them all ready for all players, being able to address the particulars on why a particular player is high or low is important. Also, helping out the GM and scouts on...well, whatever they need help on.
 
"There is a fair amount of prep time (for the meetings). We have an idea of what our needs are and what our 'surpluses' are. Imaging what organizations might be a good match for us is something that we all do to different degrees before the meetings. Taking a look at their prospects and which ones have scored well both in the statistical and the scouting methodologies is valuable prep work too."

Right now, Sig is somewhere in Las Vegas, probably a notebook computer on his lap, not reading my words, just making fun of my stats from 2008.  I am definitely not on the Cardinals' radar this off season.