Really appreciate the time, Mr. Hazen, this is an incredible opportunity for those of us on the board.
There is obviously a lot of discussion around measuring defense in general, both in terms of methodology and how accurate/how sample size sensitive the current metrics are. Many fans believe that teams have proprietary defensive metrics that are much more sophisticated and predictive than the common public ones like DRS, +/-, UZR, etc.. Assuming that you do have proprietary means of quantifying defense, would you say that they are slightly better than the ones available to fans, moderately, significantly, or in a whole other realm (orders of magnitude better)? Do you use different numbers to describe past defensive performance vs predicting future performance?
Second part of the question, if that's alright: How much of that improvement in the proprietary team metrics vs the public metrics is the result of the new statcast technology and other tracking software?
Thanks so much for doing this, we can't wait for pitchers and catchers to report so that we can get a look at this new team you've assembled!