MLB Network's Brian Kenny is easily the most repellent person in the baseball media today. He might be even be more hard to take than the crusty old Bill James (Kenny comes close to wetting himself when talking about his idol James.)
Kenny's MLB Network show MLB now is absolutely brutal and should be called Geek Squad (it often resembles a bunch of calculator nerds at a Paul McCartney convention.) This show makes Intentional Talk look good.
Well today, Kenny called departed Tampa Bay Rays GM Andrew Friedman "one of the leaders of the analytics revolution." I'm sorry Brian but what has Andrew Friedman ever won? The answer is NOTHING? This is the real world Brian, they don't give out merit badges for competing and second place finishes. Kenny should have learned this after watching his beloved Billy Beane's Oakland A's choke the chicken in the 2014 stretch run.
Besides all that, Andrew Friedman has been absolutely dismal in his evaluation of amateur talent. Check out some of Friedman's horrible drafts in recent years. Friedman and Beane are home right now watching the World Series like the rest of us on TV. Brian Kenny on the other is no doubt trying to unload some of his Shin-Soo Choo rookie cards at the Ben Zobrist convention!
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