Seven days ago, the Colorado Rockies fired Scott Van Lenten, who was hired months before as the director of research and development. Essentially, he was running the analytics faction of the front office, which only has five employees apparently. Yesterday, the Rockies signed former Cub Kris Bryant to a 7 year, $182 million deal. It barely feels like an assumption to think those two developments are related. I’m going to guess Dick Monfort really, really, really wanted Bryant and when Monfort wants someone, they will sign that player.
You may be asking “Why are you talking about this?