Senior David Hesslink pitches against Babson College in Babson Park, Massachusetts during game one of the NEWMAC Championship Series on May 6, 2017.
Like many kids, senior David Hesslink collected baseball cards when he was younger. Among his most prized cards was that of pitcher Randy Johnson who, like Hesslink, is one of the rare players to swing right-handed but pitch left-handed. As fate would have it, after graduating this June Hesslink will join the very franchise his favorite player pitched for, when he starts work in the baseball operations office for the Seattle Mariners. 'I came to campus with no idea of what I wanted to do with my life,' says the mechanical engineering major. 'The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing baseball.' That started to change when he took 2.086 (Numerical Computation) as a sophomore. A question on a homework assignment sparked an idea for a project. Working with postdoc Will Cousins, he developed a baseball simulator that accurately predicted the run total from past major league seasons.
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