Yankees look to improve delivery of metrics to players
blunt critiques of what has been transpiring inside the clubhouse, including the club’s use of analytics.
While Judge lauded the club’s information-gathering as “top-notch,” he noted that improvements must be made in “funneling those down to the players in the right format.” Though players are fed reams of numbers, Judge believed that “maybe we might be looking at the wrong ones.”
Judge’s suggestion, as general manager Brian Cashman revealed last month in Scottsdale, Ariz., was to construct a roster by focusing more heavily on batting average and RBIs. As a result, Yankees assistant general manager Michael Fishman said on Monday that the organization must improve its avenues of communication with players.
“We’ve never done a good enough job. We always could have done better,” Fishman said. “I think there were definitely some things that we could have explained better or educated better.”
As Day 1 of the Winter Meetings concluded at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Fishman suggested that those discussions should have revolved around why the team values certain metrics and which ones tell the story of what has transpired in the past, not necessarily predictive of what may happen in the future.
Leave a Reply