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7/9/2025, 10:25:03 PM
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>Here, Rosenthal and Ghiroli say the White Sox outsourced analytics to a company that couldn't give them what other teams were producing for themselves, and even bungled their internal attempts:
>Even when they tried to use analytics, the White Sox weren’t sure how. For years, they used two sets of adjusted Trackman data: One, like most teams, they received from a third party, and another was developed by their own analytics people. Sometimes the two sets of data would be dramatically different, making it difficult to evaluate players and write reports. In 2019, a debate about using spin rate versus adjusted spin rate caused internal strife.
>“It was comical,” said a former baseball operations employee of different departments using different sets of data. “No one knew what was what.”
>Here, Rosenthal and Ghiroli say the White Sox outsourced analytics to a company that couldn't give them what other teams were producing for themselves, and even bungled their internal attempts:
>Even when they tried to use analytics, the White Sox weren’t sure how. For years, they used two sets of adjusted Trackman data: One, like most teams, they received from a third party, and another was developed by their own analytics people. Sometimes the two sets of data would be dramatically different, making it difficult to evaluate players and write reports. In 2019, a debate about using spin rate versus adjusted spin rate caused internal strife.
>“It was comical,” said a former baseball operations employee of different departments using different sets of data. “No one knew what was what.”
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