Moneyball – the Oakland As use of data and metrics to ID undervalued players — was one of the major catalysts for the current rage around big data and data analytics.
The Houston Astro’s were one of the teams to adopt the Moneyball philosophy in a big way.
This week, the NY Times broke the story that the St. Louis Cardinals had hacked into Astro’s proprietary database.
Big news.
In fact, this hack seemed to get more media time than the Chinese jacking the personal info of all government employees.
Hmmm.
Baseball competition aside, here’s why I think there’s a big teaching point in the story …
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