In Part 3 of an extended Q&A with Mets general manager Sandy Alderson, he discusses the state of analytics. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
MLB.com: Sabermetrics and analytics have become a huge influence in the game over the past 10, 15 or 20 years. You were there at the beginning of it. Moneyball, everybody points to that, but you guys were doing it before then. How did you first discover some of these analytics? And what gave you the belief that they were so important?
Alderson: It goes back to my inexperience at the outset of my baseball career.