I spent my entire working career in IT and I am a believer in IT but I am not sure that IT is the way of the future in baseball. Granted pretty much everyone has jumped on the analytics bandwagon right now but someday soon someone will win the World Series with a new system and everyone will be flocking to that new process.

IT and analytics can give you all the stats of what happened in the past in a microsecond but it can not predict the future, if it could, we would not need to play the games. Yes the computer can tell you what is likely to happen but that is far from a sure thing. When was the last time you saw a computer tell you before the Spring Training began who is going to win the different MLB divisions and go on to win the World Series? As long as baseball is played by humans with all their frailties, it will continue to be an unpredictable (if it wasn’t, who would watch) and you can have all the computer power in the world at your fingertips but you still won’t know who will win the World Series in 2022 even when there are only 30 choices.