What a thrill it must be to work for your hometown baseball team, and yet what a drag to have done so at the beginning in a department that many were led to believe didn’t exist. That was the reality for Di Zou, who began working in the Orioles’ marginalized analytics department in 2017 and was the lone holdover when the new front office under executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias and assistant general manager Sig Mejdal came in to make the department a priority.
I knew things would be different when I saw the cameras installed at Arthur Perdue Stadium for the Delmarva Shorebirds in April 2019. I almost cried when I saw them. My favorite team was finally not fighting with one arm tied behind its back. Can't imagine how much they had to get done in a few shorts months to get all those camera and data collection up and running at all the Orioles' MiLB stadiums for the 2019 season.
Great article. Would love to hear more about the holdovers in the organization who can talk about the differences between the Duquette and Elias eras. It's always interesting to get that peek behind the curtain and see what the transition has been like.
I knew things would be different when I saw the cameras installed at Arthur Perdue Stadium for the Delmarva Shorebirds in April 2019. I almost cried when I saw them. My favorite team was finally not fighting with one arm tied behind its back. Can't imagine how much they had to get done in a few shorts months to get all those camera and data collection up and running at all the Orioles' MiLB stadiums for the 2019 season.
Great article. Would love to hear more about the holdovers in the organization who can talk about the differences between the Duquette and Elias eras. It's always interesting to get that peek behind the curtain and see what the transition has been like.
What a great article.
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