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All right, two your phones,

as promised, we did a little bit of different stuff in the first hour,

just to break it up.

We hit on that Alex Spears story in the globe about, well, long story short,

the drive towards analytics on the pitching staff last year helped drive Dana LeVanji out of the job and distracted the team as they floundered in 2019.

To the point where they had to bring extra servers on the road to service their computers with fans

to make sure that they didn't

overheat.

And basically, Daniel Levangy wanted to do his scouting reports by looking at film and

looking at matchups and the analytics guys were sent on the road with the team.

And they have all these advanced metrics, super advanced now with the trackman technology

and the, what's that other thing called?

It's not just trackman. It's the trackman technology and the um what's that other thing called it's not just uh trackman it's the trackman tech and stack cast oh stack cast yeah the trackman systems via stack cast and uh which

basically gives you precise shapes and velocities and spin rates in very very specific locations

which dwarfs what one individual can evaluate in

preparing for a game. I'm reading right there in preparing, excuse me, preparing for a game,

reading right from Speer there. So there was this battle between the pitching coaches and the

nerds over the game plans to the point where Spear writes, there were disagreements about

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