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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Mike Matheny: Saber-friendly manager?
This is from an interview with him posted on FG:
“I’m willing to do anything if it gives us a better chance to win. I’ll take whatever information I get. That’s really the long and short of it; it’s really no more complex than that. If something becomes available to me that gives us a competitive edge, I’ll be all over it, and it wouldn’t matter what the repercussions are from the powers that be. I’m going to do whatever I think is right and what gives us the best chance to win.
That would be nice, but I’d have to say it is complete B.S. Of course the real problem is that with most managers if you gave them a list of 10 unconventional things that would “give them a better chance of winning,” and therefore, they should be “all over it,” they would simply tell you that they didn’t agree with them and that would be the end of that. How much of that they’ll get from Matheny I don’t know. With Luhnow gone, it may be a whole different ballgame (the Cardinals employing sabermetrics).
It really was a good interview, Matheny seems like a smart and articulate guy, and I think he was hired, at least in part, for his intelligence and potential for progressive managing and thinking.
Unfortunately, he also said this, which, apparently unbeknownst to him, pretty much negates everything he said about making data-driven decisions:
“For me, first and foremost is gut instinct...”
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