Repeat the baseball math often enough and you needn’t actually do anything on the field, as when things go wrong, it was the math’s fault
After the trade deadline had passed, Toronto Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins was going on about how his team should be amazing. Not is amazing. But should be.
This mathification of baseball is a real breakthrough in management studies. Repeat the math often enough and you needn’t actually do anything on the field. When things go wrong, it was the math’s fault. See? It’s written down right here. We were supposed to be fantastic. Don’t blame us. Blame math. Coming out of spring training, the Jays’ opening-day starter was the future. Now Manoah’s spending enough time in Florida that he should get a nice break on state income tax.
Manoah is an example of the real world intruding. Preseason, I wonder what the Jays’ quants had his projected pitching at? I’m sure they were Walter Johnson-type numbers. Now he’s sliding off the depth chart like a body being buried at sea. On the opposite end of that financial spectrum, there’s the Tampa Bay Rays. Not so long ago, the Rays didn’t look like the best team in baseball. They looked like the best team in the history of baseball. But their orbit has been degrading for a while.
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