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Los Angeles (AFP) - The man whose aggressively data-driven management approach rankled baseball traditionalists even as it worked wonders for the St. Louis Cardinals and then the Houston Astros now finds himself at the center of the game's first cyber-scandal.
Jeff Luhnow was a rank outsider when he was hired in 2003 by St. Louis Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt Jr., who was keen to implement the statistical analysis approach to baseball management depicted in the Hollywood film "Moneyball.