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Joe Maddon runs the numbers on analytics

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“I don’t like that method. I never worked under that till more recently,” Joe Maddon said of baseball’s reliance on analytics. “Even with the Cubs, the last year ... with Theo [Epstein], it got different and at that point there I didn’t think I could be myself as a manager.”

Joe Maddon wants back in a major-league dugout, but only on his terms.

The former Cubs manager is on a book tour for his memoir: ‘‘The Book of Joe.’’ For the last two seasons of his Cubs tenure, I hosted Maddon’s weekly radio show.