Former New York Mets manager Buck Showalter is very open-minded when it comes to the use of analytics, but he is still deep down an old-school mind that values experience and instinct in certain situations.
That is especially true when it comes to the idea of load management in Major League Baseball.
He discussed the subject on a recent appearance on Foul Territory when discussing load management during his time with the Mets.
Said Showalter: “We had a guy who had a triple and two doubles, and they came in and said, ‘He probably needs a day off because he ran too much around the bases. So what do you want me to tell him? Don’t get any hits? So you can play the next day? I didn’t quite understand that. I said, ‘OK, you got out there and tell Brandon Nimmo that he’s not playing today because he did too well last night.’”