Wrong Balance

John Henry, the owner of the Red Sox, says the front office was out of balance when it came to the use of analytics:

“We were never as far toward analytics as people thought we were,” Henry said. “And even now — I’m an analytics guy — I think we needed more of a balance. I started reaching it last season. I won’t go into all of it but there were various aspects of our overall philosophy needed tweaking and we did.”

“Baseball is a complex, dynamic, living thing that has to really be nurtured on a daily basis 12 months of the year,” he said.

Henry took over the team in 2002 and the Red Sox have won three World Series championships since then, most recently in 2013. Under his reign, Boston has had one of the highest payrolls each year.

“A lot of our advantage was purely financial,” Henry said.

So Henry is saying the Red Sox were basically the Yankees, with the resources to buy the best players. There’s more of a level playing field these days, and many teams have the resources to compete for the best players. That makes the front office job a lot tougher.

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