LL: Cat’s Out of the Bag: Mariners hire Tom Tango as statistical consultant
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
LL: Cat’s Out of the Bag: Mariners hire Tom Tango as statistical consultant Book ‘em, Blengino! Remember how [Bill] Bavasi “used” Mat Olkin as a consultant except that the Ms were so backwards that a 1996 edition of the Sears holiday catalog would have been just as useful? Well, Blengino has his own consultant, but since we have a very good inkling that this administration actually cares about statistical analysis, the identity of the consultant is pretty damn important. That person is Tom Tango.
Tom Tango Consulting for the M's
Lone Star Ball —
Tom Tango Consulting for the M's
Tom Tango, from The Book and Tango on Baseball, is now a full-time consultant for the M's. Bad news for the rest of the AL West.
Tom Tango - Consultant for the Seattle Mariners
Driveline Mechanics —
Tom Tango - Consultant for the Seattle Mariners
As an A's fan, I have only one thing to say about this:
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Mariners Smarten Up; Hire Tango to Crunch Numbers
Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest —
... It’s becoming common place now for progressive front offices to hire top-notch sabermetric talent. Bill James and Voros McCracken have worked for the Red Sox. Mike Fishman doodles his algebraic equations for the Yankees, and now the venerable Tom Tango has been hired by The Seattle Mariners. ...
Link Roundup: Catching up with Bobby Bradley
Bucs Dugout —
... the end of my career, I couldn’t feel the fingers on my left hand and had surgery to repair a nerve. I did everything I could to pitch.”
Well, a bust due to injury is still a bust, but I understand what Bradley's saying. Pitchers have injuries, and Bradley had about a million of them. That's probably not his fault.
Anyway, Bradley now plays a lot of golf and is a competitive poker player.
-P- Via Primer, the Mariners have hired Tangotiger, a.k.a. Tom Tango as a statistical consultant. Tangotiger runs ...
The Consultant
vorosmccracken.com —
... A sincere and warm congrats to sabermetric fellow traveler Tommy Tango on his new consulting gig with the Seattle Mariners. Tommy’s first set of moves will be to replace Jim Presley at third with Edgar Martinez, install Ken Phelps as the fulltime DH, and use their first round draft pick on High School superprospect Ken Griffey Jr. ...
