Est. from a small town in Texas

Joel D.
Bradley

Author · Founder · Baseball Visionary

Exploring where baseball, technology, leadership, and human performance intersect.

Author

Books that challenge conventional thinking.

Five titles — released and forthcoming — that spark meaningful conversations about the game and the people inside it.

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Founder

Building the digital infrastructure for global baseball.

The International Baseball Registry is the connective tissue between players, clubs, academies, and the future of the sport.

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Speaker

On stage, on air, in the room.

Available for keynotes, panels, podcasts, and long-form interviews on baseball, leadership, and innovation.

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The Mission

“There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

— Bill James, quoted often by Joel

My Work

Ideas, ventures, and platforms shaping the future of the game.

Book

Death By Data

Concept

Seven Player Baseball

Platform

International Baseball Registry

Publisher

Ellis County Books

Media

BaseballLive

Media

World Baseball Live

Framework

Player Option Contracts

Analytics

Bradley Development Index

Initiative

Global Baseball Development

Death By Data — Second Edition cover

Latest Book

Death By Data

A confrontation with modern baseball's obsession with metrics — and what we lose when the game is reduced to its measurable parts. Published by Ellis County Books.

In the News & On the Record

A career spent inside the game and rebuilding it from the outside.

  • Former Baltimore Orioles International Scout
  • Founder — International Baseball Registry
  • Founder — Ellis County Books
  • University of Miami graduate
Baltimore Orioles
University of Miami
Ellis County Books
IBP Baseball
Curacao Winter League
Project 421

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