North Carolina Leads College Baseball Into The Analytics Age

Posted May 8, 2018
North Carolina assistant baseball coach Robert Woodard used to write down every move and position, and every night he’d relive them all. What could I have done differently? How should I have responded here? Woodard wasn’t a math prodigy. He never expected to outsmart or outthink the kids on the other end of the chessboard. But he knew he could outwork them. (Baseball America)

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