Joe Maddon

It's also feel and experience and intuition.

I think you guys know Todd Green, don't you?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, Green, do you know Todd Green at all?

No.

Green is one of my players with the Angels.

He's a scout now.

Beautiful man.

Okay, he kept getting his bell rung with that.

He said, stop doing that.

Anyway, so Greeny brought to my attention, it's not old school, it's not new school, it's being in school.

You know, I think we, you know, it is a great line because I don't want to argue with you about what I learned from Bob Clear in 1979 as a coach or what I learned from Andrew Friedman in 2006 or 2007 as a young manager with the Tampa Bay Rays or the Devil Rays at that time.

That's not the point because all of that is important to me.

When you fit extremism in any shape or form in our politics in today's world, it's awful.

I'm not into extremes.

I think there's a balance to be sought and felt with everything.

I was at the forefront of the data analytics in the early 2000s.

It was all my own stuff.

Nobody told me how to do this.

But I got Bob Clear.