A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players | The Nation
Or, “How analytics is maybe ruining baseball but probably it’s actually corporate greed and analytics just makes it easier.”
Here’s the tl;dr:
“[Team owners and general managers] now utilize analytics to undervalue players while pocketing the money that previously went to the men on the field.”
Obviously, there’s a lot to unpack here. On one hand, players like Manny Machado, Bryce Harper and even Nolan Arenado (who is worth every penny) get paid obscene amounts of money to play a game every day.