For the last seven years or so a new wave of baseball statistical analysis has overtaken the general managers in most Major League Baseball clubhouses. When Michael Lewis wrote “Moneyball” he reordered what the league considered valuable baseball players. The statistics that Lewis introduced to the mainstream turned the value of offensive players on its head. And through its two editions, “The Fielding Bible” has begun to do the same to defensive baseball players.
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