I’ve been thinking a lot about the limits of how technology is applied to baseball – where the limits exist today, where they might exist in the future, where they should exist.
There’s an obvious reason to ask the big questions. Baseball is reeling from the fallout of sign-stealing investigations into the 2017 and 2018 World Series champions. On Monday, after being fined $5 million and ordered to forfeit four draft picks, the Astros fired their manager and general manager. The Red Sox fired their manager Tuesday, having already fired their general manager last September.