Weaveresque

Mariner manager John McLaren -- member of the Moneyball school.

Take, for instance, McLaren’s acknowledgement of Bill James, the former night watchman who determined baseball’s century-long methods of evaluation – in which gut hunches and snap judgments had precedence over statistics and analysis – were obsolete in the late 1970s...

...‘It’s intriguing,” McLaren said of James on Friday, “because I like baseball. New things, out of the box type stuff, you’d have to be foolish not to take a look at it.”