Spring is in the air, major league baseball is now underway here in North America, and thoughts of Michael Lewis’ fantastic book and film, “Moneyball” come to mind. The plot captures how Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) leverages an extreme data analyst/quant to fundamentally change baseball strategy and scouting after 100 years of tradition. The unorthodox data driven strategy was counter to the traditional approach. Not surprisingly, Billy Beane was questioned until ultimately, the strategy proved successful. Now, every team in the league, including our Boston Red Sox, is deploying a variant of this approach. I see the exact
