Amiel Sawdaye
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
kind of have more accurate or more informed, make more informed decisions.
And, you know, there is like a level of, we still want your opinion on things, but when you're telling me this guy smokes every ball and the ball's coming off his bat and, you know, it's, you know, 94, 95 of your, you know, max exit velo,
You know, you're probably, depending on what the age is, you know, where they are, like, you're probably going to say, well, you know, the data doesn't suggest that.
I know what your eyes suggest, but maybe the data, and in the past, we weren't able to kind of use the data to, we didn't have that data to help, you know, either contradict or support those decisions.
Well, I don't think it's stupid, but I also think we get data from Japan.
All right.
I mean, I, I mean, I don't, I, I'm, I, I, I think the ball is, is definitely different.
Um, and that probably, you know, to some degree has a, has a, you know, has some, um, has, has some impact, but, but, you know, we've, we've gotten enough pictures, not, not like a ton, but like, we definitely have enough pictures over there.
We have enough information.
I think we can help correlate, um,
and try to, I guess, adjust from Japanese-based MPB baseball to Major League Baseball within each team has their own proprietary models that can help understand what the data looks like.
But yeah, I still think when you're scouting those players, it is important.
They're very...
they play a different brand of baseball.
Their swings are a little bit different.
Their deliveries are a little bit different.
Everybody throws a splitter over there.
We come over here and we're in all the splitters.
There are definitely major stark differences that are hard to sometimes interpret in the data.
So I think it's a mix.