Exit interview with former Marlins analyst Bradley Woodrum

If you're still a Miami Marlins fan, you simply need to listen to this. Bradley Woodrum, the team's former coordinator of baseball information services, joins Ely Sussman to reflect on the perks and challenges of working in baseball.

Topics covered during our conversation:

• Getting hired to work in baseball
• Salary and compensation
• Peter Bendix's vision
• Gabe Kapler's front office future
• Overcoming payroll limitations
• The increased role of David Ott
• Young players for Marlins to build around

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More than 70 baseball operations employees have been fired by the Marlins in recent weeks. That includes Woodrum, whose tenure began in January 2018.

Having had the experience of working under previous baseball operations leaders Michael Hill and Kim Ng, Woodrum describes the main difference in Peter Bendix's approach:

"With Hill and honestly with Kim, there was a mindset—especially as it pertained to my department—that analytics was one of the tools we're gonna take into battle with us. It was one of the pieces of the puzzle. I think the big paradigm shift...was there was a desire to develop analytics not as a tool, but as the glue that held everything together.

"I'm sympathetic to that mindset. I think that's why I really have high hopes for where the Marlins are still going even though they're unfortunately gonna be going without me. Peter really sees analytics as this unifying force that is ingesting scouting reports, is ingesting reports from the coaches, is ingesting data in a way that then becomes actionable."

Our interview expanded upon topics that Bradley previously discussed in this Reddit AMA.