SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Inside the Rockies’ Cactus League clubhouse, with teammates bouncing between couches and practice fields, catcher Chris Iannetta sits quietly in front of his locker.
Iannetta, 35, is preparing for his thirteenth season in the big leagues, with more than 1,100 games and 4,000 plate appearances to his name. He first broke into MLB in 2003, three short years after Michael Lewis’s “Moneyball” hit bookshelves and changed the sport forever.
He has spent his entire professional career in an environment increasingly bent toward data. He’s also kind of sick of data.
“I think the art of the game is going away and I think the human element is the art of the game,” Iannetta said.