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I'm sure the AI bots they are using to supplement it are. -
... in terms of ignoring old school fundamentals? Before you jump on me, bear with me here... I realize there are so many, many areas over the year where, starting with Sabermetrics 30+ years ago, conventional baseball wisdom has been turned upside down by people who have analyzed the game. From Bill James to Billy Beane, through emphasis on OB% and OPS as more important than BA, to the realization that pitcher's can't exercise any control over where a batted ball will go, to the launch angle revolution, to new concepts like shaping pitches, to pitcher specialization, and so on. And clearly our organization is run by folks who are at or near the forefront of the introduction of data analysis, technology, and other modern innovations into the the game. And gooodness knows they have done a great job turning this organization into a winner. Whenever Elias is asked the "big" philosophical questions about such things, he talks about how scouting is still very important and that we would be surprised how much he values scouts input. But that is usually framed in terms of player acquisition. But hat about instruction and development? Is it possible that by moving to the forefront of modern baseball thought, we are losing some value that was provided by traditional, "old school" instruction? I am not saying that we should NOT be doing what we are doing in terms of launch angle, pitch shaping, analysis of pitch value and getting pitchers to throw pitches that work more than ones that don't. It would be idiotic NOT to take advantage of the new technologies and new analysis that is being done and try to create the optimal outcomes. I am in no way saying we shouldn't be at the forefront of that. But if we have hired, almost exclusively, instructors throughout the organization who think that way, are we losing some value that comes from some of the tried and true, old school wisdom? Some examples: 1) I understand that good launch angle and exit velo leads to a set of outcomes that will score more runs. So I fully understand that it should be preached to the hitters from the top of the organization to the bottom, and should be the primary philosophy of our hitting coaches. The ship has sailed on ever going back to a league full of Charlie Lau / Walt Hriniak disciples. But the "old school" wisdom is that to get out of a hitting slump, sometimes you need to shorten your swing and just try to make some solid contact. I'm not saying that players should be taught or developed to do that all the time. But for 100+ years that has been the wisdom that you should try to use to get out of a slump. Once you've got your feel back you can then go back to your normal game. But if we have coaches who are constantly preaching just one philosophy... and who probably wouldn't be happy if their players tried shortening their swing... have we lost some wisdom that might help us right now, in the moment? 2) Ben McDonald will talk about traditional ways of pitching guys. Working different combinations of pitches to guys, inside/out, etc. Is it possible that our pitching development emphasizes different things (using pitches based on their effectiveness, pitch shaping, etc) to such an extent that some of the traditional ways of pitch sequencing are suffering? I know Tony will often complain in the game threads about the Orioles' pitch calling and how the sequences of pitches called don't make sense. Or is the entire concept of thinking like Greg Maddux about how you are going to set up a batter to get him out, or pitch to him on this at bat so it will be easier to get him out on the next at bat, disappearing in the age of over-specialization of pitchers? 3) Defensive fundamentals seem to be lacking on our team. There hasn't been much change in that area in baseball for a long time. But if we are hiring almost exclusively coaches who are immersed in data driven analysis, is it possible we don't have enough old school Cal Ripken Sr, Bobby Dickerson type guys who will do the hard work at every level of drilling these guys in the basics and hit them hundreds of ground balls and make sure they are planting their feet correctly and so forth? Doesn't matter how much high tech military equipment they start using, the USMC still needs some hard working drill instructors doing pretty much the exact same damn thing they were doing 50 years ago. I don't know, I'm just asking if it's POSSIBLE that in embracing the latest (no doubt effective) methods of teaching and developing players, and making sure that our organization has a consistent teaching philosophy from top to bottom (which was absolutely needed) -- could we be losing sight of some basic longstanding principles that could still help our players play the game better even today? Just because the data revolution of the last several decades has proven a lot of old conventional wisdom to be flat out wrong, does not necessarily mean that all old school conventional wisdom is useless and should be tossed out the window. (And I am not necessarily saying we ARE tossing stuff out the window... I'm asking if it's possible). -
Probably the latter. He’s just as selfish as Tyler Wells. 😉 “‘Hey, if I get my work in and take care of stuff, I’ve got family, I’ve got my lady in town.” https://www.masnsports.com/blog/mercado-on-wells-what-a-great-human-being
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