What exactly is going on with this thing? Yes
. So this is an example where I don't know
how this happened. I really don't, but the
perception and the reality are really different. So I've
, I've been hearing things among Yankee fans where it's
like they're gonna audit the whole organization and they'll be
, I think there's this image of consultants coming in
and, and examining the way the Yankees do business
. I even heard no offense to you at all
. So I think this is just the way the
perception is taking hold. When I said on the
show yesterday, the boons coming back, you were
, you're like, oh before the audit like,
so that's just how the perceptions in there, it's
out there. Well, that's not, there's no
consultants, there's no anything. So this is what
it is exactly for a couple of years now.
The Yankees analytics, people have wanted to be able
to compare the way they do analytics to to another
model. So they've gotten the budget now to take
an outside company that runs analytics. And the Yankees
can look at this outside company's analytics, see how
they do it, see how this company does it
and compare. That's the whole thing. There's no
consultant coming in. No one else is even looking
at the Yankee stuff. It's just the Yankees are
looking at some stuff that they're purchasing. Uh now
more broadly, they're meeting tomorrow in Tampa. The
whole team brass boon judge will even pop in.
Apparently all high ranking front office, Hal Steinbrenner and
they're gonna look at the way they do everything and
talk it through internally. But I do think it's
worth clearing up that there are not this team of
consultants coming in to, to give the Yankees feedback
. It's, it's just not uh would you say
, let me ask you like on, on the
fan or people think that's what's happening? I thought
, well, that's why I wrote this column.
I'm glad that you did to clear it up.
Now, we know in today's world things get taken
out of context all the time. But I,
you hear audit now the Yankees are gonna be auditing
and it didn't make sense to me because how could
you audit an organization if you've already said, basically
, you're keeping the general manager and the manager is
coming back. So now, well, now we
have some clarity. Thank you, Andy for clearing
this thing up. Although I have a feeling it's
still gonna be taken to the audit levels. You
know how people are. I have a feeling you're
right. Yeah. Uh Laura, what changes do
you think? We're actually going to see here if
any with the New York Yankees, I mean,
obviously they're focusing on analytics and how they use those
numbers. But my question is why, why did
they wait this long to do this audit if it's
just like, hey, let's compare how we do
things. Baseball's landscape has changed completely over the last
decade and what they're just kind of doing the same
thing over and over again. If I'm a Yankee
fan, I'm absolutely irate at that. Um,
but I think, yeah, they're gonna look at
the numbers, they're gonna see, not necessarily the
numbers they're using, how they interpret them. Um
And I think one of the things they'll probably look
at is how they also evaluate risk when it comes
to signing free agents. Uh, one of the
issues that the Yankees have had, of course,
is having guys who aren't healthy or having guys that
are on the decline. Um And so that'll be
something that they look at, you know, you
can't just take the, you know, the ops
plus or, you know, war or whatever it
is and be like, oh, that's my guy
. There are so many other factors that go into
this and sometimes I feel like the Yankees analytic department
kind of just got left behind a little bit,
which to me would add up to. And I'm
not trying to call for somebody's job here, but
like, maybe make a change at the top of
the organization that, that to me is what it
would add up to. Oh, look, I'm
rooting for him. Uh, go out there and
do it, but like, obviously things need to
be changed. It just hasn't worked here. I
do think the analytics thing has become kind of a
weird boogeyman with the Yankees though. Like, if
you look at the Mets, the Mets are much
more analytic heavy and less scout driven than the Yankees
are. So the idea that the Yankees are the
team in town that's gotten that reputation. That's another
weird narrative which, which is fine. But yeah
, they can. But I compare the two,
I cover the two and the Mets are more extreme
in the analytical area which is, there's nothing,
I mean, you cover them as well, but
there's nothing wrong with that. But whatever the Yankees
are doing isn't working to their own like acknowledgment of
it. They're having people come in and see,
hey, what's going on here? Judge is talking
about significant changes that they made yet. Cashman and
Boone are going to be back and I'm not saying
Boone is part of the problem, but Cashman is
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