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Main April 08, 2003 Bill James Interview Bill James was kind enough to answer a few of my e-mail queries. Bill is the reason I was able to spend 10 years working on Baseball Tonight. Twenty years ago his Abstracts clarified ideas that had been percolating in my mind for years. Now, as a consultant for the Red Sox, his methods are having a serious influence on the game. Enjoy. Baseball Musings : In the years since you've started publishing, what's the biggest change you've seen in the game? Bill James : Wow. The game is very, very different from the game of 1977. . .it's almost hard to put a finger on any one thing. But probably the easiest thing to SEE is the change from a speed game to a power game, with the consequent change in the pace of the game and in the appearance of the game. The players of today simply don't LOOK like the players of the 1970s. They are much heavier, much thicker, much slower. Baseball Musings : There have been a number of articles published recently about GM's using OBA or Sabremetrics to evaluate players. Is this really a new trend, or have the good GMs always implicitly done this? Bill James : Well, two questions there:

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