The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
Summary:
The book chronicles the authors' experience as they take over baseball operations for an independent league team, the Sonoma Stompers, applying advanced sabermetric principles to real-world team management. Their experiment tests whether a data-driven approach can succeed outside the confines of Major League Baseball, impacting player selection, strategy, and the traditional ways the game is played.
Key points:
1. Importance of Data: The book emphasizes using data for decision-making in baseball, showing how statistics can improve performance and success.
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