Mike Scioscia/Analytics

[Stradling]

#Angels Mike Scioscia- "Becoming more of a believer of the accuracy of analytics, its not a perfect evaluation tool, but its getting better"

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[tdawg87]

Just let me get lubed up

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Great timing on his part.

[tdawg87]

He should come out and thank Eppy for introducing him to advanced scouting analytics and note that he wished someone had brought them to his attention sooner.

[seenoevil]

He's is allocating his burritos and taco's more precisely.

[nate]

He should come out and thank Eppy for introducing him to advanced scouting analytics and note that he wished someone had brought them to his attention sooner.

 

haha that would be awesome

 

I am still waiting for him to admit that he can't figure out how to use an ipad.

Edited February 20, 2016 by nate

[bloodbrother]

Nice of Mike to join us in the 21st century

[Homebrewer]

I thought we were supposed to ignore everything he says.

[jsnpritchett]

#Angels Mike Scioscia- "Becoming more of a believer of the accuracy of analytics, its not a perfect evaluation tool, but its getting better"

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"It" isn't an it. Still seems like he's looking at things in an old-school sort of way, even if he's begrudgingly moving a little bit into this century. As someone who literally has the word "analytics" in my job title, I still run into this way of thinking among some of the older studio execs.

[Pujols4MVP]

So Scioscia is trying to keep his job by learning analytics.

Eppler probably paid a super model to read analytics to scicoscia to get scioscia interested in it.

[Pujols4MVP]

Even Lady Grantham(Maggie Smith) in #DowntonAbbey probably believes more in baseball analytics than Scicoscia.

[Docwaukee]

Scioscia is totally trolling Jerry.  

 

Jerry trolled him yesterday.  

 

It's subtle, but it's there.  

[gurn67]

Reminds me of a Beverly Hillbillies episode I saw the other day. Screw the weather satellites, balloons, stations and computers, Granny had a magic beetle in a matchbox that did a far more accurate job of predicting the weather.

[laagamer]

So much butt hurt

[Blarg]

So Scioscia is trying to keep his job by learning analytics.

Eppler probably paid Mathis to read analytics to scicoscia to get scioscia interested in it.

fixed

[Blarg]

I would listen to Kate Upton in a bathing suit lecture on analytics and flunk the test on purpose just to take the class again.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I would listen to Kate Upton in a bathing suit lecture on analytics and flunk the test on purpose just to take the class again.

 

I don't get it. Could you repeat that? All of it?

[ettin]

Scioscia said they've "incorporated analytics given to them in previous years." What he fails to say is that he and his staff "internally incorporated" it but didn't share it with the players.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

"Now that Jerry is gone, I see the value of what he was trying to tell me. I'm going all in with it this year."

Edited February 21, 2016 by Vegas Halo Fan

[Stradling]

Which would tell you how shitty of a communicator Jerry was VHF

[arch stanton]

I realize hiring a genius and letting him micromanage everything is the hot trend but I can't see where it's leading to many championships. Once the first pitch is thrown it's time to let the field manager manage the game.

[CaliAngel]

#Angels Mike Scioscia- "Becoming more of a believer of the accuracy of analytics, its not a perfect evaluation tool, but its getting better"

Discuss...

 

I like where his head is at regarding analytics. Being an experienced ballplayer, looking and watching a player is much more valuable than any mathematical calculation, as far as I'm concerned.

 

What bugs me is that burritos and tacos were brought up before a lasagna buffet.

[Oz27]

I can see this thread getting bumped a lot when someone like Simmons spends much of the year hitting first or second, we give Calhoun days off against LHP to get Gentry ABs, Giavotella's dWAR hits -7 and we bunt while down by 2 runs with a runner on first and one out in the sixth inning with Cliff Pennington on deck.

[Jay]

Why the hell would Cliff Pennington be on deck?

[Stradling]

So what if Kole sits against the occasional lefty, that stuff happens on every team. The problem is blowhards here (not saying you are this guy Oz), call it "benching Kole" instead of what it really is, simply a day off.