"The analytics crowd gets very upset anytime someone suggests that it isn't completely working" Ken Rosenthal says the New York Yankees need to go above and beyond the data, and improve the way they play baseball.

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees Im sure the analytics don’t tell you to not catch the ball and to run the bases like idiots… has nothing to do with data and analytics…

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees Analytics is when Aaron Judge drops a flyball apparently

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees It’s funny you say that because Dodgers analytics cover that too

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees 'The analytics crowd' just won the world series

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees But it is working. They made the world series. The problem is the "analytics department" can't account for a sample size of 3-7 games. All it takes is one bad start from a pitcher to be eliminated

What people never understand is that analytics are a philosophical issue - a .385 OBA, for instance, says nothing about will happen in a next at bat. There is zero logical necessity. This is explored by David Hume during the Enlightenment and later Goodman in “The New Riddle of Induction.”

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees Putting Nestor in over Tim Hill in game 1 had to be them ignoring the analytics because no way the numbers suggested that Nestor was the better choice in the spot

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees Yes, they need to play more like those old school Dodgers, run by that famed analytics foe, Andrew Friedman.

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees Lol nooo, you're telling me the analytics ppl don't constantly act like entitled tyrants?? Id ask @fangraphs but they blocked me. And they're probably too busy playing w/ Hegelian Dialectics to respond anyway

@Ken_Rosenthal @Yankees But ken. How are these guys getting to the bigs and playing 162 games plus spring training and they dont know how to run bases better than a high schoolers from 1974?