Giants Combined Human Touch With Data Analytics To Fuel Historic Season

From CBS San Francisco:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The best bet you could make for Friday night’s historic showdown between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers is that during the four-hour broadcast, the word ‘analytics’ will be uttered several times.

Baseball has always been a game of numbers, but in the wake of Oakland A’s VP Billy Beane’s famed ‘Moneyball’, data analytics leaped into the 21st century world of algorithms. Computer programs spit out the best lineup cards, trades often teeter on a players data points and computer tablets are as common in dugouts as batting helmets.

Early in Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi’s career, he was a vital member of Beane’s staff. He started as a baseball operations analyst for the A’s in 2005. So he’s well aware of the analytics.

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