Los Angeles Dodgers workout for the upcoming National League Division Series baseball game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
In a sport consumed by data and its applications, trying to grapple with the binary, all or nothing, n=1 moments of postseason baseball can be disorienting, like looking for the meaning of a love story in an individual pixel on your TV screen. In trying to explain his disgust, Rosenthal stumbles into revealing the subtext of the misdirected furor often vocalized as"analytics." He notes that Yankees fans are angry at GM Brian Cashman for"analytically driven decision-making … that sometimes defies common sense," but acknowledges"Cashman's approach would be fine if the Yankees were using the numbers as deftly as, say, the.
This is part of what Schneider said after that Game 2 loss when asked about the decision to pull Berríos: “I think that when you're so diligent with your work and you trust the people that you're working with and the people that you're kind of going to battle with, both on the field and off, you just try to make the best decision that you can for the guys that are on the field to win.