You have to really like what you see from Urquidy.Ī.J. Hinch is wearing a headset down in the dugout. In Game 4 of the World Series, Yan Gomes of the Astros took a called strike in the bottom of the third inning. How baffling is it that the top announcers in baseball think it's proper and even necessary to denigrate and ridicule how the best teams win the most games? Buck doesn't imply advocates of progressive stats reside in their mother's basements, but you can draw a perfectly straight line from those childish insults of not-so-many-years-past and this season's World Series. Joe Buck (Fox Sports) is one of the announcers who makes up situations and then uses his fictional scenarios to criticize or find fault with 'analytics'. And then baseball can't figure out why its audience is shrinking. The word 'analytics' is spoken - by the people charged with keeping audiences interested in baseball - with hints of boredom, condescension, or outright ridicule.

No, the word usually sounds as if the announcer is holding a big turd in his mouth. This word is rarely presented as if the speaker is passing on some inside information that viewers should know about or how your favourite team is trying to build a contending club.

If you have listened to baseball announcers over the past couple of seasons, you have noticed that when discussing the recent trends in the game, either on the field or in the batting cages and bullpens or in the front offices, the word 'analytics' will be mentioned.

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