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The Yankees and their broadcasters can do more to educate their fans

The New York Yankees are arguably the most analytically-driven organization in sports. They invest the most in personnel, their extensive video library, and high-tech measuring and calibrating equipment. This focus on the cutting edge of modern analytics has yielded success stories like Didi Gregorius, Aaron Hicks and Luke Voit, cornerstones of this group of Yankee players.

Yet there remains a disconnect between the philosophical approach of the team and their communications to the public, especially when broadcasting games and on other multimedia platforms, like Twitter and the YES-endorsed Michael Kay Show. If you go to Yankee Stadium, you see batting average, home runs and RBI on the stadium scoreboard, and if you pop a game on YES, you might get even less information:

This is just maddeningly unhelpful.