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Chicago Cubs brain trust

The Cubs brain trust, seen here during the 2015 NLCS, is but one of the MLB front offices deeply influenced by sabermetrics in recent years.

Credit: Julie Jacobson / AP

It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative analysts in MLB front offices has multiplied to keep up, producing an army of number crunchers, modelers and decision scientists who would have seemed out of place at the ballpark even a decade ago.

From FiveThirtyEight
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