Big League Blues

Big League BluesAfter steroids and salaries, the hot topic in baseball is the number crunchers. Michael Lewis's Moneyball kicked off a debate about whether a general manager should evaluate players through traditional scouting or by performance analysis.On the one hand you have scouts who rely on player-evaluation methods almost as old as Cap Anson. They employ the same standardized grading systems that have been used to evaluate players since the 1960s. On the other hand you have a generation o...