Mets poach Dodgers Has-Ben

[A Boy Named Seo]

... and we have a new Director of Baseball Analytics!

[MFS62]

(As they used to say in my old neighborhood) So, what does he know?

Which analytics? In-game situational? Performance scouting? Draft analysis stuff? Any or all of them? Something else?

And;

If he has all those other interests, can he really focus on baseball?

And;

Why is he leaving them to come here? Has anyone checked those tweets?



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

What? People with jobs can't have hobbies?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I thought this news was already out there.

[Edgy MD]

The Oscars thing is the same discipline, using advanced mathematics to shave away uncertainty.



He went up against Nate Silver twice in predicting the Oscars and came out on top both times.

[nymr83]

I thought this was going to be a Justin Turner signing thread. damn.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I thought this news was already out there.

Yeah turns out it's week-old news. “Breaking” to me, apparently.