Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said he drew quizzical looks in the clubhouse last week in Baltimore when he mentioned he would spend the team’s upcoming off day addressing a group known as SABR. What? Who? Bochy explained: “It stands for people who know more about your career than you do.”More precisely, SABR—pronounced “saber”—stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. Since the group’s founding, in August 1971, members have immersed themselves in arcane statistics to dispassionately evaluate players and teams, unearthed little-known baseball history, and generally served as stewards of the game. “It’s the baseball nerds of the world,” said C. Paul Rogers III, a longtime Southern Methodist University law professor who has led Dallas–Fort Worth’s SABR chapter for 26 years. Ernie Harwell, the…
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