Bill Beane on Evaluation of Players
Bill Bean introduced sabermetrics in baseball, an approach that used data to capture players' performance, like hits, catchers and getting bases. He incorporated data from the industry, software developers, and the New York Exchange, over a long time, and generated relationships that guided his approach to signing players. He did not consider speed and strength (though he did not decant them), rather, he was looking at the qualities that made the player different. All major scouts went around the country, looking at high school players and stars, but Bill had noticed that players assigned straight out of high school ...
