Greg Rybarczyk

Greg Rybarczyk, Home Run Distance Tracker – Born in Lowell, Massachusetts and raised in Ayer, Massachusetts, Greg graduated from Lawrence Academy in Groton in 1986 and Union College in 1990, where he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.  He was awarded an officer’s commission in the U.S. Navy in 1990, and served in that capacity for seven years, fulfilling assignments aboard ship as a nuclear engineer and his ship’s navigator, and later ashore as a physics instructor at an ROTC prep school.

Since leaving the Navy in 1997, Greg has worked as a reliability engineer, design engineer and as a Six Sigma “Black Belt” and “Master Black Belt” for two major U.S. and global corporations.  In these roles he has made extensive use of data gathering and statistical analysis to solve business problems, making numerous quality improvements to his company’s products and saving the company many millions of dollars during his career.

In early 2005, Greg began designing Hit Tracker, which combines several of his interests and talents: baseball, physics, statistics and automated spreadsheet design.  Hit Tracker uses flight time measurements, highly accurate stadium diagrams and atmospheric inputs to recreate the precise trajectory of batted balls, rendering the most accurate measurements available for more than 15,000 home runs hit in major league baseball since 2006. Over the past several years Greg has been a frequent contributor to the Hardball Times, he has appeared as a guest on numerous local and national radio and television programs.  Greg currently is a frequent contributor to ESPN on Hit Tracker, home run distances and other related topics.

Greg lives in the Portland, Oregon area with his wife and two children.