Everything doesn’t need to be quantified.
When a team simply isn’t performing it shows and that’s what’s going on right now—that’s all he was saying.
Ben also commonly refers to the analytical side and contextualizes it very well so it’s not like he’s blind to it all.
I love Ben McDonald dearly but this is just more meaningless word salad.
“Do you make plays? Do you make pitches?” What does that even mean? Let’s quantify that! But the minute we put that into numbers OH GOD WE’RE DOING THE EVIL ANALYTICS NOT THE ANALYTICS