“Great stuff! Maybe a little statistic-y in some parts, but overall it’s a classic maverick story with a twist. See, in this one, the maverick is the person trying to use math and science over emotion and lore. And weirdly, despite laying everything out and proving what really matters when recruiting players, nobody wants to listen. But the maverick is still a character who doesn’t mind hurling a chair into a wall when the situation calls for it. Which it does more often than you’d think. If there’s one thing I learned from this book, it’s that I really should be full-tilt smashing chairs into the wall more often. Well, if there’s one thing I learned, it’s that baseball is run almost on superstition. But if there’s TWO things I learned, that second thing, which is more relevant to my life, is that maybe I should take a moment more often to consider the potential gains that would come from lifting a chair and just throwing it hard as fuck into a wall. “
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