The days of building a roster based on a gut feeling and a stopwatch are over....

https://www.chicitysports.com/how-the-data-revolution-changed-professional-sports-forever/

The days of building a roster based on a gut feeling and a stopwatch are over. I’ve covered locker rooms for over a decade, and the shift is stark. We went from basic box scores to Statcast tracking exit velocity and spin rate on every single pitch