Agreed. 4 titles in his 17 years is just not enoughHopefully the Red Sox get back to more scouting and less analytics
I too hate winning.Hopefully the Red Sox get back to more scouting and less analytics
Are the two mutually exclusive? Why not more scouting and more analytics - gain an edge wherever possibleHopefully the Red Sox get back to more scouting and less analytics
I wonder what the TV project is.Here's the link to James' site talking about the departure. It does sound like there are no hard feelings:
I'm moving on
Pure speculation, but I wonder if a network or streaming company optioned his book, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence. There seems to be an appetite for the subject matter on TV nowadays.I wonder what the TV project is.
I can't help but think of the Drew Forrester rant, "I'll We've done for four years is win!"I too hate winning.
I got an advanced copy of tomorrow's Globe:That’s a first for the Sox!
(Ducks)
INSIDE THE COLLAPSE
By Bob "Just Carrying' Water" Hohler
By numerous accounts, analyst Bill James lost his ability to user sabremetrics to prevent the 2018 Red Sox collapse. Team sources said James appeared distracted during the season by his interest in true crime novels
James adamantly denied his non-baseball interests affected his job performance.
“It makes me angry that people say these things because I’ve busted my [butt] to be the best consultant I can be,’’ James said. “The 2018 Red Sox were down, but I provided the same analytics I always have...’’
Team sources also expressed concern that James’s performance may have been affected by his interest in University of Kansas basketball, which he also vehemently denied. James said he has attend some KU games, but they did not interfere with his work of the Red Sox.
Sources say that in the face of the 2018 team’s performance, James became increasingly ineffectual. In the ugly aftermath, the Sox owners privately vowed to correct any lingering problems.
How many titles did they have in the 17 years before he came on board? Or even more to the point, how many teams other than the Red Sox won as many as four during that time period? As a matter of fact, only one team has been in the World Series as many times as the Red Sox during that time and they only won the title twice.Agreed. 4 titles in his 17 years is just not enough
Get your sarcasm detector checked.How many titles did they have in the 17 years before he came on board? Or even more to the point, how many teams other than the Red Sox won as many as four during that time period? As a matter of fact, only one team has been in the World Series as many times as the Red Sox during that time and they only won the title twice.
That sounds like the Sox had stopped using him. I wonder if that's reflective of the Sox having their own in-house team to handle analytics and not needing him as much or a shift away from analytics in general (which may change with DD gone).I’m 70 years old, maximum take-your-Social-Security-dammit age, and, to be honest, I haven’t earned my paycheck with the Red Sox for the last couple of years. I’ve fallen out of step with the organization. The normal flow of work assignments to work products has deteriorated to basically nothing; honestly, I should have left a couple of years ago.
I want more collapses like the 2018 Red Sox.I got an advanced copy of tomorrow's Globe:
Seconded.I want more collapses like the 2018 Red Sox.
I was wondering if James was thinking of retiring a couple of years ago, but Henry talked him into staying on board, with James being given the leeway to work as much or as little with the team as he wanted. Basically working as an advisor to the analytics team as opposed to being deeply involved with them. And maybe as a result James just naturally spent less and less time working with the Sox over the past couple of years.This tidbit from his message was interesting:
That sounds like the Sox had stopped using him. I wonder if that's reflective of the Sox having their own in-house team to handle analytics and not needing him as much or a shift away from analytics in general (which may change with DD gone).
Just judging from the occasional post I see from him on Twitter, it feels like he is not very in touch with the current game anymore and hasn't been for a while. Maybe he was a factor in 2004 and 2007 (I don't really know), but I doubt he was in 2013 and I would be really surprised if he was in 2018 (he said himself above that he wasn't).That sounds like the Sox had stopped using him. I wonder if that's reflective of the Sox having their own in-house team to handle analytics and not needing him as much or a shift away from analytics in general (which may change with DD gone).
Drew Forrester? Maybe I'm missing something but the only Drew Forrester I know who talks about sports is someone I think no more than 3 people at most on this site would know about.I can't help but think of the Drew Forrester rant, "I'll We've done for four years is win!"
I think 2018 turned out pretty well?I got an advanced copy of tomorrow's Globe:
I think in the down period after 2013 he was used less and less. Prior to 2017 (I think) Henry made a comment that they wanted to utilize him more. I know that during the 2018 WS James tweeted stuff about the flexibility of "us" having three catchers on the WS roster, things like that.Just judging from the occasional post I see from him on Twitter, it feels like he is not very in touch with the current game anymore and hasn't been for a while. Maybe he was a factor in 2004 and 2007 (I don't really know), but I doubt he was in 2013 and I would be really surprised if he was in 2018 (he said himself above that he wasn't).
http://bit.ly/2WiQ7jUDrew Forrester? Maybe I'm missing something but the only Drew Forrester I know who talks about sports is someone I think no more than 3 people at most on this site would know about.