# Nathan La Barbera

> Nathan La Barbera leads teams and builds with data, engineering and AI, and is bringing that work to baseball, from the clubhouse to the dugout.

Focus areas, in order: team leadership, baseball, data, engineering, and AI. Goal: to work in an MLB
dugout as part of a coaching staff, bringing data, engineering and AI to players and coaches.

## Pages

- [Home](https://nathanlabarbera.com/): who Nathan is and what he works on.
- [Twins at White Sox: Pitching Game Plan & Post-Series Grade](https://nathanlabarbera.com/twins-pitch-plan/): An automated pitching advance report for the Minnesota Twins at the Chicago White Sox, Sept 4-6, 2026, built from Statcast data and graded against every pitch thrown. It includes a projected lineup and heat maps
  for every hitter, a one-page attack plan per starting pitcher, a bullpen matchup matrix, and a grade
  for each pitcher (followed the plan, executed it, or the plan was wrong).
- [Game plan PDF](https://nathanlabarbera.com/twins-pitch-plan/game-plan.pdf)

## Notes

- The baseball work is independent analysis on public data (Baseball Savant, MLB Stats API) and is not
  affiliated with MLB or any club.