re: DAT Off-season Thread: YWCHA Edition

should be NASA
or SpaceX

Preach. As much as we loathe them, ruining those NYY home pinstripes with ads would be a disservice to baseball

Houston Strong!

Los Dodgers chupan bolas

frick the Dodgers

To the LA Dodgers:

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with the new GM, who I'm guessing is not that interested in analytics driving decisions.

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Orly?

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The Athletic:

Brown was hand-picked and brought to Atlanta by Alex Anthopoulos in 2019, two years after Anthopoulos took over as GM and president of baseball operations. They had previously worked together in Montreal when Brown hired Anthopoulos as scouting coordinator with the Expos. They were coworkers again in Toronto when Anthopoulos served as Blue Jays GM and Brown was special assistant to the GM. In Atlanta, Brown was the man Anthopoulos wanted to be his scouting director with the Braves.

It didn’t take long to understand why, as Brown oversaw drafts that produced, among others, Shea Langeliers, Vaughn Grissom, Bryce Elder and the 2022 National League Rookie of the Year, Michael Harris II, as well as runner-up Spencer Strider. That’s an impressive haul, especially given the brevity of recent drafts.

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I'm sure none of those good decisions on prospects was were driven by analytics. Must have only been the eye test, right Boddy?

Boddy is not wrong. Dude has way more insight into how this shite works than your average bear. He's also single handedly changed how pitching is developed.

Atlanta seemed to have a pretty steady balance of old school scouting and analytics folks. We will see if that’s where we go, which it was already headed that way with Click vs Luhnow who had pretty much gotten rid of the in person scouting element. If Bagwell has significant influence then he is probably right because he is pretty against most new school front office tendencies if you’ve heard him talk about it

Boddy is a salesman and hype man.

Yes, he has pioneered the use of technology with pitch design and the kinetic chain.

But weighted balls and understanding spin rates were concepts and tools used before Boddy was even born.

If anything, Boddy owes a huge amount of his success to Dr Mike Marshall and Tom House. Marshall was a pitcher who used to throw a shot put to strengthen his shoulder. Tom freely and enthusiastically shared his knowledge of overloading and underloading and the importance of strengthening the decelerator muscles. And Boddy took that knowledge to a new level by incorporating technology.

Yes, the Astros were early adopters of weighted balls. But that was at the advice and collaboration of Tom House and Gene Coleman.