An 8-time Emmy Award winner, Brian Kenny is the host of MLB Now on MLB Network, a show known as “The Show for the Thinking Fan.” He also hosts MLB Tonight, and calls play-by-play for both MLB Network Showcase Games, and MLB Network’s “SabrCast.”
The foremost proponent of analytics on television, Kenny has been the keynote speaker and featured panelist at both the SABR Analytics Conference, and the MIT-Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. His book, Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution, won the National SABR Research Award.
Prior to MLB Network, Kenny was a SportsCenter anchor at ESPN for 14 years, earning Emmy Awards for both SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight.
Dr. Daniel Mack is Vice President, Assistant GM of Research & Development, with the Kansas City Royals. In this role, Dr. Mack oversees the quantitative analysis staff and software developers to assist with evaluation across all areas of baseball operations.
Prior to joining the Royals, Mack earned a doctorate in computer science from Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, Daniel’s dissertation focused on machine learning and anomaly detection.
Dr. Mack was a teaching assistant while completing his master’s degree in computer science with a concentration in machine learning at Columbia University in New York. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Notre Dame in 2006.
