Also, he uses himself as a counter-example to state that pitchers with success in AAA aren't always successful. He's saying to McCracken "see, you just never know what can happen" (preaching to the choir, because McCracken explicitly stated that no stats can predict the future). But the main thing Bane doesn't appreciate there is the fact that he's just one data point. The AAA stats that McCracken is working on are attempts to recognize trends, and the performance of one guy (Bane) is not a trend that can be applied across the board.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 8 January 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
'gax, what I was specifically mocking is that THOSE AREN'T INTANGIBLES! Injury history or drug/alcohol problems are ascertainable facts; they're data that the New Analysis breed has never ignored. You hear meatheads talk about anything outside of the triple crown stats as "intangibles." They should save that word for horseshit like "character" and "making players around him better."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 06:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Know the scout lingo. Always appreciate "high ass" myself.
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/good-face-high-ass-the-baseball-scouting-glossary
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 June 2017 06:00 (six years ago) link
It's a harrowing time for scouts, who more than ever fear the bounty of Statcast data renders their jobs irrelevant in teams' eyes. 1/9— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) September 22, 2017
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
What would we learn if we could see what an MLB team’s scouts saw? For the first time, we can: A former member of the Cincinnati Reds front office provided The Ringer with a copy of the Reds’ scouting database from between 1991 and 2003, consisting of more than 73,000 reports. Throughout this week, we’ll be using this newly declassified scouting gold mine to analyze old-school scouting’s strengths and weaknesses, profile players who defied the scouts’ expectations, and examine how scouting has evolved in recent years. In Monday’s Part 1, we crunch the numbers on how well scouts projected players.
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/3/4/18249155/cincinnati-reds-scouting-report-series-part-1-data-findings
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
based on The MVP Machine, it seems the Edgertronic/player development revolution will be worse for scouts than the Beane Moneyball one was. Per the book the Astros are down to ~20 scouts now. Even the ones who are technology-friendly are losing their jobs... Houston increasingly just uses cameras and data to choose players.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
(also per the Passan tweet above)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Houston increasingly just uses cameras and data to choose players
...and steal signs lol
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link