Salon's Kaufman accuses Kindred of 'ignorance'

That stadium also happens to be an absolute dump. Worst one I've ever been in, and it's not even close. Also - horrible pizza and hot dogs. Just a brutal ballpark experience. Also, it gets COLD in the middle innings.

 

In the history of professional baseball, more teams failed to get to or win a World Series (the measuring stick that proves it all, apparently) by using old-school methods than teams using these oft-discussed and oft-misunderstood most modern statistical methods of analysis and their new-school applications.

What does that prove? Nothing, I guess, except maybe that only two teams get to the World Series each year, and only one wins it.

Give me the scouts bird-dogging and road-tripping and cross-checking, and give me the nerds crunching the numbers too. Balance. As someone said, art and science. And, judgment -- trusting the eye.

If I had a team, I'd want it all.

 

I wouldn't be.

"Very successful" suggests something more than zero championships, zero pennants and a 1-6 record in playoff series over the last nine years......just saying.

 

With the A's, you have to grade on a different curve, and the grade despite the poor stadium, low payroll and scrub status even in their own city is pretty good under Beane.

 

You can't. Most teams, in a recessionary economy trending toward depression, and with finite resources, must choose. The Boston Red Sox do not. They've integrated the stats freaks and the scouts the best.