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Former Team Israel Baseball Player Sam Fuld
Tries to Revamp the Philadelphia Phillies
major league player informa-
tion coordinator, a position
intimately involved in analytics,
diving inside statistics.

How’d he move up so
quickly in the team’s hierarchy?
“People in the organization
spoke in glowing terms, at
all levels, about him, with his
now are being exposed to the
information side of the game in
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a greater fashion, you’re going
to see the pendulum swing back
SAM FULD, the new general
a little bit.”
manager of the Philadelphia
Fuld played his last game
Phillies, says he’s just getting
in the majors in 2015 with the
acquainted with one of his
Oakland A’s. He spent the 2016
predecessors, Ruben Amaro Jr.,
season on the disabled list after
now a broadcaster for the club.

tearing his rotator cuff in spring
Their paths to the post are
training and retired in 2017.

I felt like there was a lot on the uniform side that was exciting to me,
similar: Both have Jewish roots,
That was the year he played
attended Stanford University but also on the front office side. That’s been my mindset to date.”
for Team Israel. Fuld had never
and had an eight-year major
been to the country before.

SAM FULD
league playing career.

“In the months leading up
“We’ve gotten to know each
to the tournament, they invited
other a little bit,” said Fuld,
eight of us to go see Israel for
who played for Team Israel knowledge, with his person-
“I felt like there was a lot
“We’re actually seeing what’s four to five days. I went over
in the 2017 World Baseball ality, the way he gets along on the uniform side that was likely to be a trend back in with my father, met some of my
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afar for a little while now.”
about his intellect in the past,” also on the front office side. might see some former players a tremendous experience there.”
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way he presented himself about
his responsibilities and about
how he understood the nature
of being a big league player.”
Fuld said he had an open
mind as he embarked on a
post-playing career.

to see Jewish executives in
Major League Baseball — over
half a dozen teams have Jewish
GMs, and there are several team
presidents — it is unusual to see
ex-players make the climb into
the executive suite.

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the tournament, became its
feel-good story, finishing sixth.

“We just missed out on
getting to the final four. We
definitely felt like we had a
good amount of support from
Israel, and from the Jewish
community in the U.S.,” Fuld
said. “They appreciated that a
number of us had taken some
time to visit the country and
learn more about their culture.

A number of other teammates
had already been there through
Birthright, and we had a couple
of native Israelis on our team.”
It was a close-knit squad
with a big assist from their
mascot: a stuffed toy known
as the Mensch on the Bench.

Fuld called it “definitely the
centerpiece of a lot of the team
bonding.” “If we ever felt pressure as
we worked our way through
the tournament, having a giant
stuffed mascot staring goofily
at you in the dugout, in the
clubhouse and even on the
plane was a great way to lighten
the mood and keep everyone
loose and having fun,” he said.

With current Jewish stars
like Alex Bregman, Max Fried
and Joc Pederson, along with
recently retired standouts
such as Ian Kinsler and Kevin
Youkilis and the plethora of
Jewish executives, this appears
to be a golden age for Jews in
baseball. Fuld says there is a camara-
derie among Jewish players,
enhanced for him by playing
for Team Israel.

“That was a unique connec-
tion that we all felt, and it
extends to the U.S. as well,” he
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