Paul Petera, baseballHQ.com

Paul Petera has been with Baseball HQ since 1998. He has been involved with Data Analysis since his arrival, and has worked extensively on the past nine editions of the Baseball Forecaster. His writing has appeared on Baseball HQ for the past eleven years, as well as in Sports Weekly and ESPN – The Magazine.

Paul has been active in fantasy baseball since 1987. In his spare time, he enjoys distance running. In October, he qualified for the 2010 Boston Marathon with a 3:19 qualifying time at the Twin Cities Marathon. The Virginia native holds a B.S. in Business Management from Virginia Tech, and is an avid Hokie fan. Paul serves as a Risk Manager for a St. Louis-based brokerage firm, and lives in Edwardsville, IL with his wife Andrea and daughter Abby.