My naive assumption had been that being a sabermetrician was about discovering interesting things about baseball using statistics. But it was really about getting a front office job in baseball, in part by knocking rocking the boat about obvious steroids cheating.https://twitter.com/17cShyteposter/status/1083586495267524608 …
From the beginning sabermetrics has been about analyzing how to win baseball games - which skills translate into actual wins Anyone who does that and has ambition is going to want to prove their theories to everyone by assembling a winning baseball team