How Statistics Have Changed Baseball. Guest: Edwin Amenta, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. Major League Baseball scouts used to choose players based on their intuition. That all changed in 2002 when the Oakland A’s decided to use statistics instead. It turns out you can put together a successful team with help from a computer, and it revolutionized how the game is played throughout the entire major league.

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