This week in SABR 101x featured an interview with Lewie Pollis, a young sabermetrician with good ideas. I enjoyed watching this interview with him, especially given that he is now an intern in the Reds Baseball Operations department.
Mentioned in the interview is this piece at BPro that echoes the importance of being reluctant to throw aside sabermetric principles for apparent outliers. It follows nicely from the work by MGL and Dave Cameron last month talking about the importance of in-season projections.
He also mentions his senior thesis, which attempts to place a value on front office personnel. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it's something I've along been interested in doing (e.g. this poor attempt of mine to evaluate Wayne Krivsky from long ago...my way was poorly done, lacked controls or comparisons, etc). I'm interested to see how he attempted to control the innumerable confounds needed to evaluate front office moves!
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