As a numbers guy here from time to time and in real life - where I use analytics that have to be mixed with judgment, I can tell you that baseball analytics have become idiotic when it comes to bullpen and staff management. And I believe in analytics in many of its applications in baseball. But not this one.
The Jays decision to remove Jose Berrios after 3 innings of shutout ball when he was pitching very well, was the dumbest application of this I have ever seen.
It appears management / analytics guys decided before the game that this was the way they were going to manage things, and then no matter how Berrios was doing decided to do the move anyway. Kikuchi immediately comes in and gives up 2 runs.
The problem with these pre-determined analytics to manage the staff, is that a single pitchers is homogenous in performance... no matter how he is doing in a game, he will somehow regress, and the next guy will come in and automatically do well.
Of course the Jays morale looks shot, and the Twins got an immediate upper from Berrios coming out.
And I am not necessarily blaming John Schneider (the manager) per se, as this horrendous and idiotic decision came from the top. He was just following orders from the idiots above.
