The age of analytics is upon us. Here at Bless You Boys, we have not been strangers to these measures; and now, finally, the Detroit Tigers' front office seems to be joining the party fashionably late. The question of whether the Tigers should be concerned with analytics, is moot and obvious -- of course they should.
As a multi-million dollar business, it is their responsibility to do everything they can to improve and streamline their product and to do so within the realm of efficiency. However, as fans, what does our desire to quantify and analyze the game and the players tell us about ourselves and is it on the whole a good thing?