Ep. 165: Tom O'Connell Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Show Notes
My guest today is Tom O'Connell of O'Connell Sports Management. Since 1997 O'Connell has represented over 70 professional baseball players and is a certified agent with the Major League Baseball Players Association.
The topic is entrepreneur.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- How O'Connell became the entrepreneur he is today, starting off in the club business
- His plans for the baseball offseason
- "Moneyball" and the use of statistics
- Salary arbitration
- Projecting results into the following year
- The importance of risk
- What O'Connell learned from working with baseball scouts
- Competition amongst other agents
- Comparisons to the hedge fund world
- Some of the more interesting baseball characters that O'Connell has sat down with
- The importance of getting out of your comfort zone
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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