Eno Sarris talked with front office and field managers about how the game is changing, and how to react to that change. There is so much good commentary in the article, but here is one response that resonated with me (emphasis added):
“I do think there’s been a fairly extreme shift in the makeup of front offices and even media coverage,” said the higher-up. “The general framework of a lot of conversations about the game has really changed. Roster-building is a year-round sport, and it does tend to feel at times like we’re all a part of some meta theater that’s somewhat loosely attached to dudes playing on a field. The focus of what it means to be a fan or follow a team has shifted at least somewhat from simply knowing the players and what happened in games toward some bigger picture perspective that accounts for assets in the farm system, where you are on the win curve, and how efficiently resources are being utilized.”
This is why some people rebel against analytics. They want Jack Morris in the Hall of Fame because pitching 10 shutout innings in game seven of the World Series confirmed everything we knew from watching Morris’s career. Analytics does take some of the romance out of the game.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2kS4Ujh
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