Jeff Luhnow, the new General Manager of the Houston Astros apparently watched Taken before he took the job and now has embarked on a journey of revenge against baseball traditionalists.
An example:
Luhnow: I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for a player’s batting average, I can tell you I don’t keep it. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long, very nerdy career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let your home runs and RBI’s go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not show you my charts, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will talk to you about pitch trajectory data until you die.
American League West: Good luck.
The Astros hired Baseball Prospectus writer Mike Fast today as an addition to baseball operations.
Let’s go to the Houston Chronicle&...
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