Thursday, February 25, 2010

Theo Epstein talks sabermetrics

Aside from the cheesy commentary by Jim Bowden this video is actually very informative. Theo makes some appearances but by far the most important thing he discussed was the Red Sox' proprietary information system "Carmine".

As you would expect he did not get into details but from what I can decipher this sounds like a system similar to those in place in Cleveland and Pittsburgh already. Director of Baseball Information Tom Tippett, the mastermind behind Diamond Mind Baseball, likely had a large hand in developing this system.

Carmine is probably an information database where all scouting reports, statistics, and other data can be ascertained on players in the system. This allowed for scouts and other baseball ops personnel to quickly pull up all available information on a player.

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