Tom Tango and "TangoTiger" are aliases used online by a baseball sabermetrics and ice hockey statistics analyst.
In The Book he and his coauthors analyzed many advanced baseball questions, such as how to optimize a lineup or when to issue an intentional base on balls.
2009 American League Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke specifically mentioned FIP as his favorite statistic.
Tango has worked for the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays as a statistical analysis consultant.
The award is given "to honor those researchers, historians, analysts, and statisticians whose work has most contributed to our understanding of the game and its history.