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Jayson Werth rails against 'super nerds' that are 'killing the game'

Jayson Werth, who said he was "done" with professional baseball in June, has this advice for those front-office types who use sabermetrics to determine the paths of franchises: It doesn't compute.

"They've got all these super nerds in the front office that know nothing about baseball but they like to project numbers and project players," the 39-year-old Werth, who wouldn't use the word retirement when he left the game on June 27, told the Howard Eskin Podcast for 94 WIP in Philadelphia.

"... I think it's killing the game. It's to the point where just put computers out there.