Behind the numbers: The people powering Michigan baseball’s analytics

Behind the numbers: The people powering Michigan baseball’s analytics

Favoring an old-school approach, Michigan coach Tracy Smith wasn’t an early adopter of new-wave analytics.  It was some time between 2013 and 2014, before Smith was the head coach for the Wolverines, when he met this wave of change. Then, he was coaching a powerhouse Indiana team to a College World Series run. Talented and confident, but largely stuck in their ways, Smith and his team were indifferent to the emerging world of baseball analytics.…