Earlier this season, there was a bit of newspaper coverage regarding how the Braves’ new leadership had begun implementing some of the lessons learned from analytics with regard to the Braves’ defense. In April, Freddie Freeman said this (courtesy of Dave O’Brien at the Atlanta-Journal Constitution):
“Every day we have a meeting. We have a hitters’ meeting and we have cards sent to us in our lockers,” Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said, referring to index-like cards that each position player has tailored for him each day by the analytics staff.