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- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I play my home games in Coors Field, I'm probably not going to be doing a whole lot of bunting. If I play my home games in Petco Park or Dodger Stadium, it's probably going to be a more valuable tool.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in baseball, we're dealing with a world where uncertainty reigns. We're trying to predict the future performance of human beings. It's a fundamental difficulty for which we both have to account.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the West Coast offense has spread out among the NFL, as all of Bill Walsh's assistants and all of Mike Holmgren's assistants have gone on to be head coaches, it's all the West Coast offense, but it's all a little different, tailored to the personnel or the coordinators or the resources each team has.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was well aware of my limitations as a football player and knew that I needed every edge I could possibly get in order to compete. A big part of that was to be as precise as I could and make as few mistakes as possible because I figured that was the only way I could survive.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's sort of my mindset, more than anything else, whenever I get into anything new. I'm in this constant pursuit for new knowledge. I think I sometimes focus more on all the things that I don't know and what I'm trying to figure out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, I loved working in baseball.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you can find value where it isn't readily apparent.
- Answer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.
- Messy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to make more consistently better decisions? That's very similar.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really focus on process as much as anything else: process for how we evaluate players, process for how we make decisions, process even for how we hire people internally, process for how we go about integrating our scouting reports with guys watching tape in the office.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Admittedly, there will be an awful lot for me to learn, but I want nothing more than to help bring consistent, championship caliber football back to Cleveland.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine is so big and so important.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's up to a manager to understand his players.
- Driving Force
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- Nov 07, 2020