Analytics at heart of Cards' success, federal probe - STLtoday.com
What we needed is what we did,” DeWitt said Friday, recalling the early days when the Cardinals first logged into the game’s sabermetric uprising. “Today every aspect of the game is under analytical scrutiny. … There has been a coming around to information in the last 10 to 15 years and a lot of teams were looking for that edge. I feel good that at the beginning we were able to capitalize on it. ”. What began 12 years ago as a small group of Luhnow’s analysts with salaries and hardware that cost less than $1 million has expanded into an arm of the Cardinals’ front office... The group has, through the years, included a graduate of MIT, a Harvard man with a master’s in statistics, an MBA from the University of Chicago, multiple economics degrees and a former engineer for NASA. It has grown in size as it has grown in influence, and now is the focus of a federal investigation for alleged computer hacking. TECH IN THE GAME. Boston third baseman Pablo Sandoval was benched for using Instagram, a photo-sharing social media site, during a game. And, on Tuesday, The New York Times broke the story that one of the game’s most storied franchises could be accused of cybercrime. The Cardinals are being investigated for illegally accessing the Houston Astros’ baseball operations database, one also constructed by Luhnow when he became their general manager. Source: www.stltoday.com
