From Wedge:
Wedge ... said he uses sabermetrics and statistical analysis all the time....
"Hey, I use the numbers as much as anybody," Wedge said. "I used the numbers in Cleveland. And Cleveland was one of the first teams to really dive into it with Mark Shapiro leading the way. So I've always been a big fan of using the numbers.
Wedge feels the issue took on a life of its own because he poked the sabermetric bear.
"When I bust somebody's chops or make a joke at it, you can take it in a light-hearted way or you can take it personally," he said. "Quite frankly, I don't care either way. But the fact of the matter is, sabermetrics is a part of the game of baseball. It has been for a while. It's my job to see it from all ways.
"What people have to see is these are human beings. They are not widgets. It's not XYZ corporation -- something out of a book. These are human beings. And that's the thing you have to factor in the most. They have emotions. They have families. You have ups and downs and everything that goes along with it. Things you can't read on a piece of paper.
"But it's most definitely part of it. I use it each and every day. It's not the end all. It's not just black and white. It's got to be a nice blend between the human factor and the numbers. You have to be able to go out there and motivate these guys and treat them as human beings as well. So for those who I offended, I'm sorry about that. One thing you have to have in this game is broad shoulders and a thick skin. That's something that is part of it, too."
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There is a discussion going on about this currently at BJOL. Bill is educating his readers as to just how cutting-edge ALL major league teams are, with approaches evolving on a week-to-week basis. "Any organization that didn't keep up would be quickly left behind."
Honestly, for fans to imagine that ANY big league manager did not look at UZR and xFIP is simply naive. I don't mean it in a perjorative way; I mean it literally. The industry is hugely data-driven, and it's not possible to conceive of the org being data-driven when the front-end data customer (Wedge) freezes the Application Integration stream out at his process point. Again, companies don't work that way.