Long before Buck Showalter had access to analytics departments and all their graphs, spreadsheets and heat maps, he had his wife, Angela, hand-drawing spray charts to inform defensive positioning for the 1987 Fort Lauderdale Yankees in the Class A Florida State League. Is the New York Mets 65-year-old manager going to resist the info cooked up on his analysts’ computers? Showalter insisted Tuesday at his introductory news conference that if the Mets don’t succeed during his tenure, it won’t be for sabermetric ignorance.
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