John Smoltz

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Pardon My Take · Lebron James Is A Free Agent Again, World Cup Must Win For USMNT, John Smoltz Talking Baseball Plus Our Dingers Only Fantasy Draft · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

I think analytics is great, but the problem is if that's all your resources and that's the only decisions you make is on analytics,

I think you're missing the boat.

I think you just absolutely have no chance of winning a World Series and or anything else because you don't understand the game and how it's played over 162.

You got to use your eyes and you got to be able to blend.

So these kind of things I've been saying for years and it's definitely showing up every year in a World Series.

You see the teams that win, the teams that don't deviate from the way that they go about the game.

Now, I will say this.

If every game was played in the Dome, then you could get more universal kind of statistical categories that are neutral.

But you got wind, you got elevation, you got all these other elements that we want to quantify by a stat.

We want to show how smart we are to come up with an algorithm or a stat that just quantifies 100%.

There's no such thing.

But if you show me 100% analytics as a manager, I will not deviate from that.

But there is no such thing.

So you have to balance it and you have to play the game in a certain way so that you can understand the flows and the ebbs and the human nature and the elements.

But if everything was in a dome, then you would have a better case to make for those kind of numbers.

That's a great question.

Great question.

Thank you.

I just think...

I'm a generational guy.

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