The Detroit News · May 16, 2017
Niyo: Tigers adapting to evolving numbers game
Detroit — The Tigers’ most noteworthy acquisition from this past offseason answers to just one name.
That’d be “Caesar,” the moniker given to the new central data hub for the organization, which is the result of a collaborative effort headed up by Jay Sartori, the team’s senior director of baseball analytics and operations. And while Sartori is quick to point out Caesar — named in tribute to ownership’s pizza-making empire – is hardly the endgame here, he’s also ready with a quip or two about its early-January debut in the office, “when it became self-aware.”