David Bell new manager

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(10-24-2018, 03:02 PM)Circleville Guy Wrote: I agree that local or family connections shouldn’t be a deciding factor. Aren’t Williams and Bell bothbig On analytics? I sometimes wonder which is better between analytics and a good ole fashioned baseball guy who has great eyes and ears. A guy that gets on base a lot but is a slow runner that makes crappy running decisions isn’t as good as a guy that gets on a little less but has speed and has great running instincts. Now let’s say that same guy that gets on a ton also sucks a defense and has little power. Is he really a baseball god if he gets on base like crazy but is bad at everything else? I’m going a little off of Votto but I’m not specifically talking about him. It just seems like it would be easy to focus on certain analytics and miss other obvious things. Personally, I prefer a baseball guy with a sprinkle of analytics. There’s yet to be a computer stat that shows a players heart and passion.

They’re clearly not. Not saying they don’t use it, but I don’t think there’s as big of a buy in as there should be. No way. And yes, you have to
Understand situational baseball, but humans cannot digest numbers like computers can. So you base the vast majority of your decisions based off data because it’s been ran thousands of times over if you’re getting and using the right data. You set what you data you think is important and gather players that fit that same data. You make decisions off it.

And heart and passion are things you look for before basing your decisions off baseball moves. You’re not going to sign a guy who fits a certain data suggestion but is a locker room cancer. Season is far to long for that