The grandest mistake we can make in sports is deciding that the human element is insignificant. Make no mistake about it, analytics and objectivity are vastly important, and something I am greatly in-favor of.
But at the end of the day, these players are human. In this pseudo-war of analytical versus old-school baseball, we have seemed to lost sight of the reality. The sweet spot—similar to many domains in life—is somewhere in the middle. The way I see it, analytics should and need to win this war, yet they also need to lose the battle of Psychology in Baseball.