I have no idea if Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi really do think they’re smarter than everyone else.
But I know, fair or not, that’s the popular notion concerning the two executives who have ushered the Dodgers neck-deep into baseball’s analytic age, a time when old-fashioned high heat has been replaced by newfangled highbrow.
I also know there certainly was some superior intellect at work a couple months ago among the team’s decision makers.
I just didn’t realize at the time that the smartest man in the room actually was Don Mattingly.
It’s fair to question the wisdom of taking a job with the Miami Marlins, who, somewhat incredibly, have been managed by seven men since the middle of 2011.