McFeely: Q&A with Derek Falvey

http://mcfeely.areavoices.com/2017/03/06/new-twins-baseball-chief-falvey-dozier-other-trade-offers-didnt-get-over-the-bar/

Mike McFeely of am970 radio in Fargo had the chance to chat with Twins CBO Derek Falvey before today's game against the Cardinals. He transcribed the interview and posted it on his Area Voiced blog. 

There are a lot of great questions about a variety of topics. He asked about Brian Dozier, Joe Mauer, coaching, analytics, the offseason and much, much more. Check it out. Anything stand out?

Here's one of many questions and responses:

 

 

Q: Much has been made of you and Thad bumping up the analytics side of things and the baseball research side of things. You’re bumping up your baseball research department. … How far behind the curve were the Twins in that department and how fast are you trying to catch up?

DF: When it comes to analytics, I think there’s a little bit of a misunderstanding on what role that plays in baseball. I think we’re trying to constantly critique how to better make decisions and what information we’re using to make those decisions. It doesn’t push out any of the scouting information and, in fact, in many ways I see it enhancing our scouting information and building a process for us to make better decisions. I think the Twins had a staff that was committed to that work. I think it was behind where we wanted it to be. We are investing in some people, some different systems externally that we’ve acquired that in our minds will help us make better decisions but also allow us opportunities to develop players internally in ways that maybe we couldn’t before.