Looking at Red Sox latest analytics flub
The Boston Red Sox season is slipping away and contributing to their latest slide is another analytics flub. Felger, Mazz, and Murray react to the Red Sox latest mistake by using analytics.
Mazz: It was all pre-planned. Let’s just go according to script. That is how we’re going to do it. We’re going to decide before the game starts how it’s going to go independent of how good he looks. He could have struck out all 12 and they would have pulled him!
Felger: As Jared Carrabis once told us when we were debating, I said this yesterday, Anthony Rizzo and Kyle Schwarber…you know that Felger and Mazz don’t know what they’re talking about because they talked about the “eye test”. Like you’re not allowed to use the eye test. It’s like, I quite literally think that the analysts don’t watch the game or they don’t need to?
Mazz: No, no, because human judgment is not reliable.
Felger: The chaos of human judgement.
Jim Murray: No. The game itself is an inconvenient truth. They just want the sheet with the numbers on it.
Felger: So it doesn’t matter how Cooper Criswell looked.
Mazz: It blows me away. And Murray you might be right, Cora might have been talking about, “Well, organizationally this is how they want it done so I’m going to go along with it”.
Jim Murray: I mean, he could say that, but they also paid him enough to not raise that much of a fuss.
Mazz: Hush money. I mean, seriously, that is one of those things that is a baseball fan is asinine. “I’m sorry, that’s how we drew it up before the game.” That’s just asinine. So a guy gets 12 up and 12 down and you’re done for the night? Take a seat. That’s how we drew it up before the game? We’re going to bring in the 44 year old guy who just got here?
