Cafardo is such a passive-aggressive douche. In every single article he tries to work in some short of shot at "analytics."
Yesterday's story on Theo Epstein included this gem:
"Despite the analytic slant Epstein brought to the Red Sox (remember his system known as Carmine?), he has learned the numbers don’t mean everything."
15 years ago on this very site Theo talked about how it's always best to combine scouting with analytics, how more information is better than less, and how you need to see things through both "lenses." He is the poster boy for combining stats and scouting and he always has been. He never, ever said anything like "the numbers mean everything." But Cafardo tries to portray him as a former stat nerd who has now finally learned to respect scouting like Nick always has.
Next sentence:
"He has come to find that the enormous amount of data available is available to every team, so he thinks the data has to be used creatively and that the game comes down to human beings executing the data."
No, he doesn't think the game is about human beings "executing the data." (Just how would human beings execute the data? A firing squad for their computers? Put spreadsheets in an electric chair?)
That horrendous phrasing demonstrates how Cafardo has never understood what analytics or data even means. But he still has to include a lecture on the danger of analytics in every single thing he writes.