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“We look at the analytical data and how our players perform at their best and we set the course up accordingly,” Bradley said.

A civil engineer, he approaches life with an analytical eye and rarely gets worked up.

"We're not going to panic," said a defiant Bradley when confronted with data from a respected analytical website that suggested of the 132 possible foursomes pairings for the Americans, they were ranked 132nd.

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.