Let’s Go Tribe is looking for writers!

If your goal in life is to write about the Indians for a small monthly stipend, we’ve got you covered.

That title isn’t a lie — Let’s Go Tribe is looking for writers! And for the first time since I took over as managing editor in late 2015, we’ll be looking for said writers through an application process, which you can fill out in a minute.

Before I get to that, though, I want to make it clear what we’re looking for so you know if you’re a fit for us, and more importantly if we’re a fit for you.

What we’re looking for:

Dedicated, passionate Indians fans first and foremost. I would rather have a sloppy, smart writer who loves the Indians more than someone proficient in AP-style formatting and ready to slap tables hither and thither who doesn’t understand the Church of Yandy Diaz’s Biceps.

Previous writing experience is obviously a plus, but if you don’t have any kind of resume there are a couple prompts in the questionnaire you can do as a kind of proving ground. This is a paid position (more on that in a moment), but it isn’t much, so people with little-to-no writing experience are perfectly fine to apply.

Let’s Go Tribe is a statistically minded blog underneath all the bizarre love of Francisco Lindor’s smile, so having a firm (or extra firm, if you please) grasp of sabermetrics and analytical thinking is a huge plus, as is being able to explain some complicated stats for easy reading. As much as a lot of our readership loves advances stats, most (or at least I) don’t want to wade through a Ph.D. thesis to understand what makes Corey Kluber’s slurve so great.

Right up front, I also just want to say this is a paid position but don’t run out quitting your day job or cramming in a four-year journalism degree to earn to a spot writing here. Depending on how much you’re able and willing to contribute, it’s only a few bucks a month. As (hopefully) everyone on the Let’s Go Tribe staff can attest, I try to take that into account with how much I ask of my writers — I know you’re not doing it for much pay and mostly “for exposure,” for whatever that’s worth. The writer(s) we’re looking for now is/are just a post or two per week at the most.

How to apply:

Fill this out, simple as that.