holacarinados
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I found a baseball book in a hotel and read it in one evening, but now I don't recall the name or author. Do you know it? The focus of the book was how a new MLB general manager (and former player) some time in the 1990's on an expansion team decided to use statistics on prospects rather than go by the 'gut' feeling his scouts had about the player's chances of being good major leaguers. He got the idea because he himself was scouted and the reports were that he'd be outstanding because of his skills and physique (6'4" - 220), power, speed, etc., but he never really got good because he wasn't all that interested in playing, something the scouts couldn't see. He then turned his team into a winner by getting a statistician to work with him who'd look up the numbers when a scout would recommend someone. His incentive was partly because his team didn't have NY Yankee kind of money to buy players.