Good read.
In the sports context, especially baseball where they are still assigning new numbers for things, it's very easy to lose standard solid decision making.
I've often said, analytics isn't having the data-its figuring out which data is important at any given time or situation. Analytics has been part of the game from the beginning. Just more and different data now. Many SABR discussions about did we discover something new or just learn how to quantify something Earl Weaver just did.
Much angst among fans comes from not understanding that your coach/FO thinks something is more important than what you think. They usually have more information too.