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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
Counterpoint, gut feel and "common sense" should never override analytics
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Bull. Experience - you left that out - gut feel, and "common sense" can be just as valuable as reams of analytics. Cowards will hide behind the numbers, though, pointing to them in their defense. You push these analytics a lot but sometimes you, and they, are right and sometimes they are wrong.
That guy would have stayed in my game UNTIL he gave up the first
run, perhaps. As it is they took him out after 73 pitches when somebody hit a measly single off of him. Why, because some damned chart said "According to our analysis, pitching the third time around to the batting order fails 58.45% of the time?" What nonsense.
Right in front of Cashman's face was the evidence that Snell was dominating and unless he said he was tiring, he deserved the chance to show that he was not.
And the fact that the Rays ended up with only one run themselves is not a factor in that decision, ahead of time. Cashman had to assume that his team would score again but if not, all the more reason to keep a dominant pitcher in a 1-0 game.
Have fun waving the stacks of numbers around, CB, but you are not convincing this dude at all. Such analysis is only helpful IN ASSISTING a person to make a decision, not in making it for him. As I said, people are deferring to, and hiding behind, this stuff to the point of disgrace.
Why do I care? I am thinking of "Brett Phillips, 'flying' around the outfield in pure and utter joy." Little did he know that it would be the highlight of his series, possibly his career and life, because that was the high water mark for the Rays in this World Series. He and they deserved a better chance at an even loftier moment of glory.