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Yankees insider's unique angle gives fans another reason to fear Edward Cabrera trade

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Analytics are here to stay. They're an incredibly effective evaluative tool. They allow teams that use them properly to gain a development advantage. Of course, as more and more teams have access to the same data, it becomes harder and harder to sneak one past the goalie. The Marlins know they have an elite changeup artist in Edward Cabrera under team control; they won't be surrendering him to the Yankees, or anyone else, for a cheap package just because of his surface statistics. There are no more dumb teams out there — except for those that rely solely on metrics and fail to peek at contextual counting stats.