Animation, Sport and Culture

IF 0.8 4区 教育学 Q1 HISTORY
C. Richard King
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Phillies under Pat Gillick, the team’s general manager from 2006 to 2008. Mentioned previously in connection with his success with the Blue Jays, Orioles, and the Mariners, ‘Pat Gillick showed [with the Phillies] that he did not need to aggressively embrace analytics, even in the twenty-first century’. This assertion rings true only within the narrow time frame of the 2008 World Series victory; the Phillies and their continuing aversion to modern analytics have left Philadelphia fans in baseball purgatory. The Phillies, despite their earlier success and supposed organizational superiority, have yet to notch more than 81 wins in a season since 2011 and currently rank twenty-first in organization talent. In Pursuit of Pennants’s main contribution is inviting the reader, and the baseball community at large, to examine our understanding of organizational success. Armour and Levitt have expertly woven stories, history, and statistics (though mainly traditional ones) into a coherent narrative that tracks the evolution of the front office through the modern era. As this narrative continues to develop, the reader is provided multiple opportunities to evaluate the traditional barometers of success – pennants and World Series titles – and their relevance in an increasingly corporatized sport. When used in conjunction with proanalytics resources such as Baseball Prospectus, Grantland, and FanGraphs, the book becomes a powerful tool in analyzing the ability of any modern baseball organization. In this way, the book epitomizes its thesis about the modern age – that only those able to synthesize the traditional approach with the emerging analytics will be able to maintain success.
动画,体育和文化
帕特·吉利克在2006年至2008年担任费城人队总经理。前面提到过他在蓝鸟队、金莺队和水手队的成功,“帕特·吉利克(在费城人队)表明,即使在21世纪,他也不需要积极地接受分析。”这种说法只在2008年世界大赛胜利的狭窄时间范围内才成立;费城人和他们对现代分析的持续厌恶让费城球迷陷入了棒球的炼狱。尽管费城人队早些时候取得了成功,并且被认为具有组织优势,但自2011年以来,他们的单赛季胜利还没有超过81场,目前在组织人才方面排名第21位。《追求彭南特》的主要贡献是邀请读者和整个棒球界来审视我们对组织成功的理解。阿玛尔和莱维特熟练地将故事、历史和统计数据(尽管主要是传统数据)编织成一个连贯的叙述,追踪了管理层在现代的演变。随着故事的发展,读者将有多种机会来评估传统的成功指标——三角旗和世界职业棒球大赛冠军——以及它们在日益商业化的体育运动中的相关性。当与专业分析资源(如Baseball Prospectus、Grantland和FanGraphs)结合使用时,本书成为分析任何现代棒球组织能力的强大工具。通过这种方式,这本书集中体现了其关于现代的论点——只有那些能够将传统方法与新兴分析方法综合起来的人才能保持成功。
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