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It’s Not a Home Run, but an RBI Double Isn’t Bad

by John Guaspari

Analytics can help a baseball team win, but they can also make the game boring, as Pedro Moura hints at in a new book on the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw (left) with Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman during spring training workouts at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., March 14, 2022.

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How to Beat a Broken Game: The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink, by Pedro Moura (PublicAffairs, 250 pp., $29)

The Los Angeles Dodgers have been the best team in Major League Baseball for a decade, appearing in three of the past five World Series and finishing first in the National League West eight straight years, until the Giants edged them out by one game in 2021 — a “disappointing” season in which L.A. won a franchise-record 106 games. On March 17, the Dodgers signed free agent, perennial All-Star, Gold Glove first baseman, and 2020 National League MVP Freddie Freeman. He’ll slide rather nicely into an already stacked lineup.

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John Guaspari

John Guaspari is a retired management consultant and the author of several business leadership books from Walpole, Mass., who now spends his time writing, enjoying his children and grandchildren, playing golf, and deciding just when the time has come to be done with such a silly game and toss his clubs into the nearest dumpster.

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