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Baseball's run fairly optimally, it's not like by perfectly running a team you'll pick up 30 wins a season or that wall street guys would just rape the current sabermetricly inclined front offices when it comes to trades/the draft.

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For all of you that have any doubt please read Baseball between the numbers by Baseball prospectus. It is run highly sub-optimal in terms of base stealing, bunting, batting order, pitching rotation,pinch hitting, closer usage and pretty much every other aspect of the game. If you want to discuss this more pm me, I don't feel like unleashing all my pent up feelings on sports management debacles here. Perhaps I will start a blog.

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From what I have read I believe some significant liberties are taken in some of the assumptions there.
They hate bunting because swinging away works so much better. But swinging away would not work quite as well without the THREAT of bunting. etc etc.

Your theory that a team run by math-geniuses would win THAT many more games is just wrong. Especially since the psychological effects on the players being told what to do by the math-geeks may very well end up hurting them more than helping.

Baseball players aren't robots that you can just program what to do and then let the numbers fall where they may. There's more going on there.