Michael Koltak & Jonny Gomes - Baseball Cloud

Episode 5 Season 5 is out with Baseball Cloud’s Michael Koltak and Jonny Gomes. Baseball Cloud is a leader in harnessing sports technology and producing professional software solutions for users around the world.

Jonny Gomes is currently the VP of Strategic Partnerships within Baseball Cloud. Jonny had an impressive MLB career, playing with 8 organizations and winning 2 World Series

Michael Koltak is the Director of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development at Baseball Cloud. He also has a very interesting background within the Lexington Legends organization as a 

a former VP, player, and coach.

Michael and Jonny talk about the future of baseball analytics within player development and advanced scouting at levels of baseball. 

Both of these individuals have great insights to what technology and analytics will look like in the next 10 years.

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Intro: (1:20)

Individual roles (2:00)

Jonny Gomes – What is baseball Cloud (2:20)

Michael Koltak – What is baseball Cloud (3:20)

Solutions within Baseball Cloud & Yakertech (5:30)

What the Solutions are used for (6:50)

Business Capabilities w/ Jonny Gomes (8:50)

Business Hierarchy of Baseball Cloud w/ Michael Koltak (10:40)

Last couple of months of traveling within the business w/ Jonny Gomes (12:30)

Last couple of months of traveling within the business w/ Michael Koltak (13:29)

Handling and utilization of data within college baseball (15:45)

Transfer Portal (21:10)

Culture of analytics overseas and Dominican (22:50)

Baseball Cloud Influence Overseas (25:50)

Jonny’s favorite countries to play in (27:45)

What is the next edge that organizations are looking for (32:12)

Data collection within younger ages (34:00)

What Jonny Gomes wishes he had during his career within technology & data (35:30)

Technology & data interpretation within the next 5-10 years (40:20)

Closing (44:50)