Zack Britton sees disconnent bewteen players andn analytics-NJ.com

 2/6/2014, "Retired Yankees pitcher says there’s a ‘disconnect’ between analytics and players," NJ.com

• Updated: Nov. 28, 2023, 5:38 p.m.

 "Zack Britton spoke on Tuesday about analytics in the Yankees organization."

By Bridget Hyland | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

"After retiring in November, Zack Britton shared that he felt that while he was with the Yankees, there was a “disconnect” between the analytics and the players.

Speaking on “Foul Territory” on Tuesday, the 2016 Mariano Rivera Reliever of the Year award winner doubled down on his assertion.

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Britton threw his support behind Yankees’ Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman when asked if he thought they were “good” by Sherman. The problem, according to the 2016 Mariano Rivera Reliever of the Year award winner, is that the team’s analytics don’t always mesh with the culture.

“I just know as a player there, a lot of times in the clubhouse I felt like there was this disconnect between some of the things that we were presented with and what we were seeing on the field as players. And sometimes that creates, you know, that rift which is not what you want. From a clubhouse culture standpoint, you want everything to mesh well together, whether it be the communication from the front office, to the play on the field, and I felt that sometimes the two just weren’t connecting well.

“What the players were saying, we were like, ‘Hey, we should be doing this, and this has been working well.’ Then sometimes the way that that was implemented through the data didn’t line up, and I don’t think I’m the only player that feels that way.”

Britton’s sentiments are very similar to what Yankees captain Aaron Judge intimated was the problem with the team at the end of the season.

“I think there are certain things you can’t put a number on,” Judge told reporters 

after revealing that players needed to sift through a lot of analytics throughout the season.

Those numbers didn’t add up to much as the Yankees finished the season 82-80 - their worst finish in a 162-game season since 1992 - and missed the postseason for the first time since 2016.

The solution, according to Britton, is to bring more players back into leadership roles. People who have been able to incorporate analytics into the game successfully in the past.

Perhaps this is why the Yankees hired Brad Ausmus to be the team’s bench coach. In his introductory press conference on Tuesday, Ausmus said something Judge and Britton would probably like.

“A lot of the data is extremely valuable - but so is experience,” he told reporters."

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