Former prospect Ben Ruta continued to give a behind-the-scenes view of how the Yankees have implemented analytics over the past few years — and how he believes things have gone too far.
Ruta, a Yankees prospect from 2016-21, made headlines Wednesday when he was in the “Foul Territory” live chat on Wednesday and then appeared as a guest on the program Thursday.
Ruta mentioned one specific analytic that the Yankees, he said, relied heavily on, which was hit-effects OPS.
The stat focuses on exit velocity and launch angle to come up with a projected OPS while eliminating luck as a factor, Ruta explained.
“The problem I have with this metric is strikeouts do not dock you and you see that because they use this in the minors and they use this to make free agent decisions,” Ruta said. “So they’re signing guys and they’re making trades based off this.
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