In theory, the Atlanta Braves had already been in the advanced statistics business… certainly more than some teams in baseball. But with Alex Anthopoulos in charge now, it seems that the numbers game will be ramped up to a whole ‘nother level.
Anthopoulos is still one of the young-gun General Managers in the game – and getting a taste of life in Los Angeles under Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi would have done nothing to temper his own enthusiasm for Advanced Statistics… otherwise referred to as Baseball Analytics.
He warned us that this was going to happen: we quoted this tweet in November from the first A-List breakfast Q&A session that Anthopoulos held for Braves season ticket holders (note the 2nd tweet of this sequence):
AA discussed the expansion of our scouting department and analytics department by increasing the number employees.