{"id":446926,"date":"2024-02-29T17:59:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=446926"},"modified":"2024-02-29T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:59:42","slug":"yankees-call-for-help-a-mit-physicist-for-resolving-the-analytics-disconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/yankees-call-for-help-a-mit-physicist-for-resolving-the-analytics-disconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Call For Help A MIT Physicist For Resolving The Analytics Disconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Aaron Judge met Aaron Leanhardt, the organization&#8217;s new big league analyst and former MIT physicist, in an unexpected late-night rendezvous at the Yankees player development facility. This encounter might be a game-changer for the team.<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees Call For Help A MIT Physicist For Resolving The Analytics Disconnect<\/h2>\n<p>Leonhardt hopes to fill a vital void following a disappointing 82-80 season by using his special combination of scientific knowledge and baseball coaching experience to convert complicated analytical data into player-actionable recommendations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Leanhardt left physics labs &amp; lecture halls behind for MiLB. Years later, the Yankees hope he is now the solution to an analytics problem that became clear by the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Judge: \u201cI think guys are going to love him.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kb4QqMc0kH\">https:\/\/t.co\/kb4QqMc0kH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypostsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nypostsports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Joyce (@GJoyce9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GJoyce9\/status\/1763190324392767963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited about him,\u201d Judge told The Post this week. \u201cHe\u2019s in a good role, being that analyst that\u2019s the barrier between us and the analytics. What I\u2019ve seen so far, he does a good job funneling the information down. I think the guys are going to love him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google searches mostly showed Leanhardt&#8217;s non-baseball activities prior to Hal Steinbrenner&#8217;s announcement last week that the Yankees had elevated the clubhouse favorite, known as &#8220;Lenny,&#8221; who joined the team in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Leanhardt, who was a graduate student pursuing a doctorate at the time, participated in a NASA-funded research effort at MIT where they cooled a sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yankees add Aaron Leanhardt as an analyst to the coaching staff. <\/p>\n<p>Hal on the hire: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat working with people, great explaining things and teaching things\u2026.  Judge already met with him one-on-one for an hour or two and he likes him\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zWeHL2V3lR\">https:\/\/t.co\/zWeHL2V3lR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dugout Station (@DugoutStation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DugoutStation\/status\/1761035035304702173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From doing NASA-funded research at MIT to playing a key role in the Yankees&#8217; analytical approach, Leanhardt&#8217;s career is as remarkable as it is unusual. His switch from academia to baseball was prompted by a genuine passion for the game and a desire to utilize his analytical abilities to boost team performance.<\/p>\n<p>His previous positions as an assistant minor league hitting coordinator and hitting coach have given him the skills he needs to make the connection between analytics and on-field application.<\/p>\n<p>He coached hitting for a number of low-level affiliates, including the Dominican summer league team, before working as the club&#8217;s assistant minor league hitting coordinator for the final two seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After Aaron Judge\/Gerrit Cole raised concerns over how the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yankees?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yankees<\/a> communicate analytics, Aaron Leanhardt was promoted to the MLB staff.<\/p>\n<p>Hal Steinbrenner: Leanhardt&#39;s \u201cunbelievably versed &amp; intelligent in analytics.&quot; He has exp coaching &amp; a physics PhD. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pSbgxPiapJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/pSbgxPiapJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gary Phillips (@GaryHPhillips) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaryHPhillips\/status\/1761038940952314080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manager Aaron Boone told The Post, &#8220;He&#8217;s taken a road he didn&#8217;t have to take because of his love of the game and teaching, coaching, and helping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boone stated that before selecting Leanhardt, the Yankees went through a rigorous hiring process to replace Zac Fieroh, who is still employed by the team but in a different capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Leanhardt&#8217;s contribution might be crucial to the Yankees&#8217; plan as they look to bounce back from their most recent poor campaign. The goal of improving players&#8217; analytics knowledge and application is to provide the team a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Yankees promote Aaron Leanhardt to major-league coaching staff analyst&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eboland11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@eboland11<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsdaySports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NewsdaySports<\/a>: He spent the past two seasons as the organiz&#8230; &lt;$&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cGgPumaYtY\">https:\/\/t.co\/cGgPumaYtY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yankees?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yankees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York BBWAA (@NYBBWAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYBBWAA\/status\/1761227198290149680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Combining scientific rigor with a love of baseball, Leanhardt&#8217;s unusual journey to the major leagues puts him as a potentially revolutionary figure in the continuing analytical revolution of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of Leanhardt&#8217;s efforts will be keenly monitored as the season goes on. 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This encounter might be a game-changer for the team. Yankees Call For Help A MIT Physicist For Resolving The Analytics Disconnect Leonhardt hopes to fill a vital void [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":441563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,117],"tags":[23777,23778,23779,23774,23775,23776,15867,2221,3957],"class_list":["post-446926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-new-york-yankees","tag-aaron-judge-mit-physicist-yankees","tag-aaron-leanhardt","tag-aaron-leanhardt-yankees","tag-analytics-disconnect","tag-analytics-disconnect-mlb","tag-analytics-disconnect-yankees","tag-mlb-2024","tag-mlb-news","tag-yankees-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}