This is an article by a management consultant who read a book about baseball. The gist is that we can create all-stars out of average players by closely measuring their performance indicators. He tells us pitcher Trevor Bauer "wouldn't have won a second glance, let alone a multi-million dollar contract, without cheap tools for computational introspection and training." Now I've talked about quantified self technology as part of online learning for as long as I've been talking about online learning. And today everybody is studying things like spin rate, launch angle and pitch velocity. But measurement is only a part of the story, not the whole story, and what really made Trevor Bauer an all-star is a lifetime of dedicated practice in the art of pitching a baseball.
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