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> Lots of teams. The Royals, the Devil Rays, the Orioles, the Braves, the > Pirates, all of them ignore this sort of important stuff in the minors. > Lots of them _talk_ about it, but only a handful actually practice what they > say. My point wasn't that different teams are not more or less successful at implementing strategies but simply that the insights from statistics are not all that novel. \ So no, you > usually do need to use the statistical approach to find out these things, > because the statistical approach has learned a lot of things that people > didn't know before and, even more important, demonstrated that a lot of > things that people used to know aren't true. So you mean to say that baseball people did not know in a general way that if you get caught stealing too much you hurt your team?
