Tony Blengino and the M's new Statistical Department
by ThundaPC on Nov 15, 2008 1:11 AM PST
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Geoff Baker provides some juicy new info.
The department will fall under the auspices of Tony Blengino, a longtime baseball stats analyst and a special assistant to new Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik. Details of the department's mandate and size are still to be worked out, but the move could vault the Mariners from their perceived Stone Age approach to stats to one in which they're seen as one of the game's more progressive franchises.
"We want to take all the information at our disposal and combine it with our scouting," Blengino said Friday.
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"I'm not going to say it's a bad approach ... " Blengino said of the current consultant route. "But the idea is to have as much in-house information as you can get."
Blengino said the team has yet to contact (Mat) Olkin about reviewing his mandate for next year.
"I've always had that statistical information in addition to scouting," said Blengino, a former baseball stats writer for RotoWire, whose first job out of college was as a CPA. "It's an aspect I brought to Jack when we were in Milwaukee together. That's where my core is. That's where I started."
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"I can't imagine there are any teams that don't pay heed to some form of statistical analysis," Blengino said. "We have to take great care to make sure we do it right."
So basically,
Jack Zduriencik = Mr. Scouting and Tony Blengino = Mr. Stathead.
How's that for a 1-2 punch?
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TinyURL is your friend.
Also, it helps you social engineer LL into ’Rolls, both Rick and HH.
by James F'n X on Nov 15, 2008 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
Was just reading some of a Craig Wright book
It would be nice to have some sabermetricians in addition to people who merely apply some of the knowledge of sabermetrics (“statistical analysts”). However, just knowing what FIP is would probably be an improvement. Baby steps, baby steps
So...
when are we going to see the announcement that the M’s blogosphere 1-2 punch of LL and USSM authors get hired on to Blengino’s staff?
Meh. It's one thing to have a Stats Department
it’s a wholly different thing to use it right. I mean, it seems a step in the right direction but I’m holding off celebration until I hear what kind of analysis they do and how much it influences their decision making.
by Bearskin Rugburn on Nov 15, 2008 1:56 PM PST reply actions
I admit it, I'm blindly on the optimistic side.
If Blengino wasn’t Zduriencik’s right hand man and assistant GM then I think you could question how much influence it’ll have on the decision making. We have no reason to discredit Zulu’s positive statements about using all information available at this time, either. I know we’re jaded Mariners fans, but I think we have to give them a chance to fuck up first, don’t we?
As for what kind of analysis, well here you can toss in your sleep. We have no idea on this one. I have to say, though, that even if it’s amateurish stat analysis like what I’ve picked up since coming here and to USS Mariner, then it can’t be horrible.
Fans are typically idiots.
by The Typical Idiot Fan on Nov 15, 2008 2:08 PM PST up reply actions
Agreed.
I think skepticism is an underrated virtue, but I think cynicism is pointless. Sadly, this organization has caused many of us (myself included) to trade the former for the latter.
So, while I understand being cautiously optimistic, I don’t understand not being at all optimistic.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 15, 2008 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
The paranoid would answer:
“We’ll be first!”.
Like acblue up above there, I’m okay with being cautious, but untie the nooses, fellas. We’ve only just begun here.
Fans are typically idiots.
by The Typical Idiot Fan on Nov 15, 2008 8:28 PM PST up reply actions
Well..
it’s a wholly different thing to use it right. I mean, it seems a step in the right direction but I’m holding off celebration until I hear what kind of analysis they do and how much it influences their decision making.
Given the fact that Blengino moved with Zduriencik from the Brewers and that he is a stats-heavy guy, I’d say that statistical analysis will, indeed, be a large part of their decision-making process.
And, it may not make the Ms a cutting edge team, but getting them from the Stone Age into the Industrial Age would STILL be a huge step forward.
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