The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players.

As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in T…

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