Baseball Embraces SABR!
SURPRISE, Ariz. – The revolution is happening, of all places, in the Kansas City Royals dugout.
The sabermetric community, baseball’s cottage industry of thinkers and rapscallions, has been waiting 30 years for a player like Brian Bannister to come along. He understands them. He thinks like they think. He doesn’t look at baseball as a simple game, just bat and ball or pitcher against hitter, primal to the core.
‘I joke about it, but it’s almost like I’m watching the game from the Matrix,’ Bannister said. ‘You’re not seeing what everybody else sees. You’re seeing the numbers that create it.’
I’ve read his comments on various SABR blogs. Bannister is smart as hell. It’s pretty cool that he’s this interested in sabermetrics, because as the article notes, this type of intellectual behavior is generally looked down upon in the dugout.
With that said, go Rich Harden!
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