Bill James
Boston.com
Despite being one of baseball's premiere numbers crunchers, James still sometimes prefers his 1980s-era computer (right). A project James was working on after returning from Fort Myers involved comparing players' strikeout rates in the minor leagues with their strikeout rates in the majors. James predicts a player strikes out more in the majors than in the minors ''almost 100 percent of the time
The statistician
at work
Despite being one of baseball's premiere numbers crunchers, James still sometimes prefers his 1980s-era computer (right). A project James was working on after returning from Fort Myers involved comparing players' strikeout rates in the minor leagues with their strikeout rates in the majors. James predicts a player strikes out more in the majors than in the minors ''almost 100 percent of the time
(For the Boston Globe Photo / Dave Kaup)