That they do up to a point I suppose- 3 rings is still 3 rings. They aren't full Marlins or Phillies in the scouting/saber spectrum, but they seem to do fine regardless.
Marlins brought in some sabermetrics guys this offseason.. but to be honest.. their ability to get value out of their farm has been pretty good over the years without it too.
Yeah, but you have to admit the infrastructure for said saber guys is probably behind by quite a bit.
oh totally... The Tigers are way behind on sabermetrics too. There is a place for it for sure in front offices.. but there has to be common sense balance.
I have argued this for a while that relievers, especially tier 1 guys, become much more valuable in the condensed postseason format. It's kind of interesting for instance to see the Red Sox and Yankees hoarding relievers all over. Not confident you can simply force that to happen, but it's interesting nonetheless. Another frontier is how to accurately quantify defense and I am willing to bet that's probably where a couple teams like the Pirates and Royals are ahead of most the league right now.
And that's probably the riddle here. When do you demote a guy to AAAA-Dom and when do you put a guy in the pen? How do you go about building such a project? Brute force emphasis on pitching? Is that really a strategy that is sustainable? Lot's of tough questions for the guys upstairs to carefully answer.
keep arguing to argue
Tigers are probably the worst team I have seen with understanding when to take a starter in the minors and give up on that and move him to the pen... Verhagen is the first guy they did it to in a while and it worked.
The Giants are big on sabermetrcis? Care to show us that? Their GM is pretty outspoken against it actually.
