The Giants just
hired Matt Daniels of Driveline Baseball to be their Coordinator of Pitching Analysis. As
Eno Sarris of The Athletic wrote,
...his hire as the coordinator of pitching analysis for the Giants is less about data and analytics and more about the growing need for middlemen, translators that can stand between the analysts and the players on the field, and bring the two sides closer together.
“I’m not a mathematician or a SABR nerd,” Daniels told The Athletic this week. “I’ve read all that stuff but at heart I’m a baseball guy that knows data, not the other way around.”
It’s an important distinction.
“There’s an internal civil war that exists and doesn’t need to exist,” Daniels admitted.
