Kevin Cash's Latest Comments on Managing Basically Make Mickey Callaway Look Incompetent

The generally accepted school of thought claims that there are two ways to do business: the new-age, analytic driven approach and the old-school, decision-making based off intuition method. The latter is slowly going the way of the dinosaur in the MLB, save for a few stubborn individuals like Mets manager Mickey Callaway, who claims that he goes against analytics "85 percent of the time."

Kevin Cash, manager of the famously analytic-crazy Tampa Bay Rays, indirectly owned Callaway by saying he has done away with making decisions based on his "gut feeling."

While this methodology is by no means infallible, as pulling Charlie Morton in the fifth inning on 80 pitches makes no sense and taking Ryan Yarbrough out one out short of a complete game is a tragedy, Cash at least gave off the appearance that the Rays coaches are in complete lockstep over their devotion to the new school of thinking, while Callaway remains stuck in the past and still believes making Edwin Diaz the closer is a sound idea.

A majority of teams exist in the middle ground between these two, blending analytics with old-school baseball know-how and experience. However, Callaway's quote made the Mets look like a bunch of neanderthals, while Cash and the geeks in the Rays front office have this team in the playoff hunt despite all their limitations.