Cafardo surely typed this in a state of pure glee.
"Red Sox principal owner John Henry revealed a major shift in organizational philosophy Wednesday when he said the team was deemphasizing its reliance on analytics in making major decisions.
“I spent at least two months sort of looking under the hood, and came to the conclusion that we needed to make changes,” said Henry, who also owns the Globe. “One of the things that we’ve done — and I’m fully accountable for this — is we have perhaps overly relied on numbers, and there were a whole host of things.
“We have a very hands-on president of baseball operations [Dave Dombrowski] and a general manager [Mike Hazen] who worked extremely well together. We have made significant changes. The biggest thing is players on the field have to perform.”
Original headline was probably something like "Henry to Stat Nerds: Drop Dead". The actual quotes are a lot less inflammatory, and are actually pretty obvious:
“Over the years, we’ve had success relying on numbers, but that has never been the whole story, as we’ve said over and over again. But perhaps it was too much of the story... Perhaps there was too much reliance on past performance and trying to project future performance. That obviously hasn’t worked in three of the last four years... “We were never as far toward analytics as people thought we were,” added Henry. “And even now, I’m an analytics guy, I think we needed more of a balance. I started reaching it last season."
"Summing up the new approach, Henry said, “I would put it that we’re more holistic and with a broader approach. These aren’t revolutionary but for us call it evolutionary.”
It's never been the whole story, as they've said over and over again. Even so, Cafardo blithers on: "The Red Sox still employ Bill James, considered the father of analytics, as a senior adviser, and they have not reduced their analytics department. But the shift is toward using it as just a tool rather than the be-all-end-all." It's never been the whole story, says Henry. This big change means it won't be the be-all-end-all, says dopey sportswriter.
But it is interesting that Henry went public to talk about this. Not sure why.
Edit: goddamn autocorrect, can a dope change the SL from "reply" to "rely"?
"Red Sox principal owner John Henry revealed a major shift in organizational philosophy Wednesday when he said the team was deemphasizing its reliance on analytics in making major decisions.
“I spent at least two months sort of looking under the hood, and came to the conclusion that we needed to make changes,” said Henry, who also owns the Globe. “One of the things that we’ve done — and I’m fully accountable for this — is we have perhaps overly relied on numbers, and there were a whole host of things.
“We have a very hands-on president of baseball operations [Dave Dombrowski] and a general manager [Mike Hazen] who worked extremely well together. We have made significant changes. The biggest thing is players on the field have to perform.”
Original headline was probably something like "Henry to Stat Nerds: Drop Dead". The actual quotes are a lot less inflammatory, and are actually pretty obvious:
“Over the years, we’ve had success relying on numbers, but that has never been the whole story, as we’ve said over and over again. But perhaps it was too much of the story... Perhaps there was too much reliance on past performance and trying to project future performance. That obviously hasn’t worked in three of the last four years... “We were never as far toward analytics as people thought we were,” added Henry. “And even now, I’m an analytics guy, I think we needed more of a balance. I started reaching it last season."
"Summing up the new approach, Henry said, “I would put it that we’re more holistic and with a broader approach. These aren’t revolutionary but for us call it evolutionary.”
It's never been the whole story, as they've said over and over again. Even so, Cafardo blithers on: "The Red Sox still employ Bill James, considered the father of analytics, as a senior adviser, and they have not reduced their analytics department. But the shift is toward using it as just a tool rather than the be-all-end-all." It's never been the whole story, says Henry. This big change means it won't be the be-all-end-all, says dopey sportswriter.
But it is interesting that Henry went public to talk about this. Not sure why.
Edit: goddamn autocorrect, can a dope change the SL from "reply" to "rely"?
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