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Quote from an article this morning

"Multiple individuals connected to the team have indicated Mets patriarch Fred Wilpon, 81, is unlikely to hand the organizations reins to a young, purely analytics-driven GM with whom he would perhaps have difficulty connecting. The growing belief is Wilpon will look toward a more traditional baseball person . . . There is thought among team officials that perhaps the Mets became too analytics driven in recent seasons under Sandy Aldersons watch, and a veteran leader with a pure baseball background would help shift the organization toward the center."

WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING. WHY DOES MLB DO NOTHING ABOUT THE WILPONS.

"Difficulty connecting" means "can't control everything he does" btw.

https://twitter.com/kateefeldman/status/1027900866240696320

Thread. Please read.

"There is thought among team officials that perhaps the Mets became too analytics driven in recent seasons under Sandy Aldersons watch. They literally signed Jason Vargas to a two-year contract because of WINS. Show me where they were even slightly analytically driven at any point under Sandy Alderson's watch. You can't just say these things and make them be true. Not only is this blatantly false but there's no pushback. The next paragraph doesn't say "there is no evidence that this is actually true." I try not to go full media crit but just running blind quotes (even though we know who this is) with no analysis is a disservice to readers. There's a section farther down about how Mickey Callaway was an "out of the box hire" and he failed, so now they're going back inside the box which is the most predictable excuse in the world. As always, my favorite Sandy quote ("a walk and a dong" is second): "Exit velocity told us Eric Campbell was good until launch angle told us he was hitting balls really hard directly into the ground."

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