The Atlanta Braves are doing a lot of new work with advanced baseball metrics – even ramping up previous efforts that were underway prior to the arrival of Alex Anthopoulos. But to hear former rival Jayson Werth talk about such things, he believes that the sport of baseball is being ruined by such things.
In a wide-ranging interview held via the Howard Eskin Podcast (radio 94 WIP in Philadelphia), Werth talked about his attempts to play again this season and about some of the complaints he has about the current state of the game, which dovetailed off of a conversation about new hyper-Sabremetrically-inclined Philly manager Gabe Kapler.