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And a traditional standard of excellence now is an endangered species: the .300 batting average, a popular and easily understood statistic that has been devalued and rendered borderline worthless by baseball’s analytical revolution.

In the analytical revolution, batting average has become something of a lost statistic, sacrificed at the altar of on-base percentage.

Tiger was animated, angry, annoyed, analytical, fed up with some part of his game, charged up over another part, mad at a reporter, upset with his agent.

A subsequent special counsel inquiry, the Durham report, found the original FBI probe had lacked "analytical rigor" and relied on "raw, unanalysed and uncorroborated intelligence".

Montgomery, who comes from a scouting background in his post-playing career, may value analytical strategy more — holding pitchers from facing a lineup a third time through the order and playing matchups more.