How Carlos Beltran Sparked Traditional Clubhouse
Chemistry for the Data-Crazed Astros
by Ben Reiter Oct. 19 2017
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The Nerd Cave keeps expanding. In 2014, the Astros' formidable analytics
department, which gave itself its own nickname, employed four members.
Three years later, there are nine. Even so, while all of that computational
power helped to build a 101-win ALCS participant almost from scratch, it still
can't begin to measure, or even understand, what is perhaps the most elusive
component of a championship hopeful.
Nerd Cave，太空人強大的分析部門給自己的綽號，在2014年只有四位員工，目前已經
擴張到九位。即便藉由精準的數據建構出這支 101 勝的球隊，並成功闖進世界大賽，
他們依然無法測出，甚至了解奪冠中最難以捉摸的部分。
"I don't think you can quantify it," says the Astros' data-devouring general
manager Jeff Luhnow."But that certainly doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You
know it's there. Everybody feels it."
It is chemistry, by which, among other things, a club's culture allows it
to play better than the sum of its parts. It does this while simultaneously
propelling individual players to new heights and a heightened resilience.
That's the theory, anyway. Metrics-minded skeptics often contend that while
it may exist, its impact on a club's bottom line success is likely negligible
. Chemistry, they say, comes only from winning