Baseball Operations For The Chicago Cubs - 1705 Words

There are an increasing number of people rising up and looking to revolutionize baseball as we know it. These people, called sabermatricians, come wielding spreadsheets and calculators as their weapons of choice. Innovators like them are beginning to view baseball through a different set of lenses than the rest. Others have looked through statistical glasses or scouting spectacles, but their vision has never been optimal. People like them have the correct lenses, but they have not been using the lenses in the proper context. Theo Epstein, the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs, once said that stats and scouting are two lenses of the same pair of glasses, and that the pair of glasses is called sabermetrics, and these†¦show more content†¦These advanced metrics also provided much overdue improvements to old methods of baseball research. Old-timey statistics are inputted to the sabes machine, and the new output is â€Å"quantified baseball players’ pe rformances based on objective statistical measurements, especially in opposition to many of the established statistics (such as, for example, runs batted in and pitching wins) that give less accurate approximations of individual efficacy† (Never, â€Å"Sabermetrics†). This revolution has given statistics a more clear meaning and true, measurable value for the first time. Scouting as well has been improved upon, as the five tools scouts grade on now have that measured value that scouts may refer to when making notes or personnel decisions. Statistics, specifically how they measure and control data, as well as help us learn from it, has and always will be a part of baseball (â€Å"What is statistics†). Stats are very, very useful for many purposes in the sport, and can help keep some analysis simplistic. The most effective use of stats in baseball is the comparison between teammates within the same season. Within these parameters, the numbers come from very similar environments, as the teammates are playing against the same teams in the same ballparks at the same time. There are no outside factors potentially skewing the