Baseball always has been and always will be a game of numbers. However, those numbers are changing. Sabermetrics are becoming a bigger and bigger part of baseball, and there are very few teams in baseball that use sabermetrics more than the Pittsburgh Pirates do.
Prior to becoming the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates Neal Huntington worked in the Cleveland Indians’ front office. The Indians, like the Pirates, are a very sabermetrical savvy organization. Quite honestly, the Indians really got the ball rolling on sabermetrics in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Neal Huntington brought these ways and beliefs with him to Pittsburgh when he was hired as Pittsburgh Pirates general manager in September 2007.