METS MANAGER MANUEL WANTS ORGANIZATION TO DIMIINISH EMPHASIS ON STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

"What has been done in the past is that you get so many statistical people together — they put so many stats on paper — and they say, ‘Well, if you do this and you score this many runs, you do this that many times, you’ll be in the playoffs,’ " Manuel said Saturday in a conference call after the Mets announced that he had agreed to a two-year contract. "That’s not really how it works. And that’s what we have to get away from."

..."You don’t see a lot of guys that have statistical numbers play well in these championship series," Manuel said. "What you see is usually the little second baseman or somebody like that carries off the M.V.P. trophy that nobody expected him to do. That’s because he’s comfortable in playing that form of baseball, so therefore when the stage comes, it’s not a struggle for him."
Source: NY Times, via Baseball Think Factory
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