Luhnow and the Astros considered it the best system in the game. Louis Cardinals - the team for whom Luhnow had worked previously and which gave him the idea for Houston’s database - had one as well, called “Red Bird Dog.” The name the Astros gave their system was “Ground Control.” The Boston Red Sox built one too, nicknamed “Carmine.” And, of course, the St. The Cleveland Indians had one called “DiamondView” which most consider to be the first effort at such a beast.
They were not the first team to have such a system. Part of that process was setting up a database and communications system in which all baseball operations information - scouting reports, prospect development plans, trade discussions, you name it - could be shared across the organization. When Jeff Luhnow was hired to be the Houston Astros’ general manager he and his staff set to transforming the club’s analytics department. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros gave us one. Until 2014 or so, however, it would’ve been hard to imagine a baseball espionage story, but the St. You can use baseball to tell a dramatic story. Part of it, though, is that baseball lends itself pretty well to a lot of different modes of storytelling. Part of that is because of baseball’s historic popularity. There have been a lot of baseball movies. Next up: number 17: Cardinals Employee Hacks the Astros’ Database No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most over the past ten years. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were more akin to tabloid drama. So, instead of counting down the Top 25 stories of the year, we’re taking a look at the top 25 baseball stories of the past decade. We’re a few short days away from the dawn of the 2020s.
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