Joe Sheehan

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Joseph S. Sheehan, born in New York City in 1971, graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Southern California in 1994, and lives in the Los Angeles area. He is one of the founders and was a co-editor of the first annual book of sabermetric baseball forecasts and analyses by Baseball Prospectus in 1996 as well as several later volumes in this series.

In an on-line interview, he recalled how he became involved with Baseball Prospectus:

I’ve been involved with Baseball Prospectus since before it had a name. Gary Huckabay and Clay Davenport had a plan to publish Clay's Translations and Gary's projections along with player comments in a book. They had been doing so on USENET, in the rec.sport.baseball newsgroup, for years. Rany Jazayerli offered them his Organizational Pitching Reports for use in the as-yet-unnamed book. When Rany—who was a friend of mine though a Strat league—told me this, I offered my services as an editor on the project. Gary, who only really knew me through the newsgroup, invited me on board. I might even forgive him one day. This all happened in the fourth quarter of 1995. We published BP 1996 just in time for Opening Day.[1].

Sheehan now writes the "Prospectus Today" column for BaseballProspectus.com, and is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com as well as a commentator on ESPN radio and other baseball news programs.