Tom Grieve talks about using analytics as GM of the Rangers in the 1980s. The Rangers were a rather money poor team at the time, and like the more famous Oakland clubs of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the analytics developed more as a way to make due with less:
Oh yeah. We had a video guy, Carl Hamilton. It wasn’t necessarily that we were trying to break new ground. We had no money and had to be creative, I remember telling Marty Scott, who was our Minor League director, we only had a $25,000 budget for bats in Spring Training and then we had to cut $12,500 from that. He and Omar (Minaya, then a scout with the Rangers) had some people they knew and we used Bomb Bats. They were basically unbreakable. We had one big league scout, John Young. We had to have information on the teams we were going to play, so we scouted them by satellite.
Interesting throughout.
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