Today, MLB Advanced Media is making a pretty exciting announcement, as they’ve brought in Tom Tango — who created many of the metrics we use here on FanGraphs, and is probably the closest thing this generation has had to Bill James in terms of advancing the understanding of the game — to serve as their Senior Database Architect of Stats. In other words, he’ll help facilitate the development and deployment of Statcast data.
Dave Cameron sits down with Tom for an interview at the link.
With Tom at the league office, and people like him sprinkled around the clubs, it’s only a matter of time before they develop an artificial intelligence to run the game. At least, that’s what I’d do with the job.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1WIY7ac
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