10 quotes found
“The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.”
“If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.”
“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”
“That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.”
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.”
“People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.”
“The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about b...”
“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit o...”
“Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and ...”
“Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.”
