Laurila: Q&A with Mike Scioscia on analytics

From SABR member David Laurila at FanGraphs on February 24, 2016:

Mike Scioscia has a reputation as an old-school manager who has little interest in analytics. He doesn’t want you to believe that. The extent to which you should is subjective. Scioscia certainly isn’t cutting edge — at least not by today’s standards — but he’s by no means a dinosaur. His finger is on the pulse of what’s going on in today’s game, even if he isn’t always pushing the same buttons as his more progressive contemporaries.

On Monday, I had an opportunity to ask the Angels manager for his thoughts on analytics. Here is what Scioscia had to say.

Read the full article here: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mike-sciascia-on-analytics/



Originally published: February 24, 2016. Last Updated: February 24, 2016.