How can you assign all of this (or even any of this) to Tulowitzki when within a 3 day span they brought in him, Price, Lowe, and Revere. Why is it not any one of them that gets credit for all the intangible stuff? Why isn't it all of them as a unit. Why isn't it something else that was said and done.
The fact is that we don't know if any one thing set the team off on their magical run to end the season, a combination of innumerable other things, or nothing at all and just a good old fashioned hot streak that happens from time to time. I don't even recall the players themselves ever saying specifically that Tulowitzki pushed them to new levels or anything like that. The whole "it's all on Tulo" is 100% a media-driven narrative because Sportsnet started putting up one of those "since this date" arbitrary splits trackers that they timed to the day the trade for him was made. That and the fact that Tulo was still regarded as a high end brand-name player meant that people scrambled for intangible/narrative-focused ways to elevate his being on the team since they clearly couldn't do so with his performance.
Also nice job with the pointless "spreadsheet" digs. And the backfiring Santa Claus analogy too, since the whole point you're trying to make there is undermined by the fact that Santa Claus isn't real (and neither is this idea that Tulo is singularly responsible for a significant part of the team's run to the playoffs)
Wasn't asked about Price, Revere or Lowe. I can see Price bringing that same swagger to the table as Tulo did. His presence in that rotation gave everyone a little boost and the hitters knew they didn't have to score 7 to win as Price would hold them down. Guys were able to swing a little freer.
It wasn't a dig on the spreadsheets as it was more of somethings can't be explain by crunching numbers on a spreadsheet. I know quite a few pro athletes some current ones and some that are retired and I deal with them every day in my job and talk to them about analytics and intangibles and they all same the same thing. Intangibles will never been know by a regular fan unless they are part of the clubhouse and see the daily lives of those players and how the interactions happen how some players guys just gravitate towards and follow them. Some guys come into a dressing room and now guys walk a little taller or work a little harder as to not look bad to a new star coming into their room or they follow the lead of that new star in the weight room, off ice drills, off field drills, eating right all that stuff.
My friend played with Doug Gilmour, Shea Webber and tells us stories about how they lead a team and the stuff you can't put on paper made a huge difference to their group. I got countless stories from my members about this same stuff.
So while you criticize MSM for pushing a narrative, the narrative usually brought on by media working the clubhouse and talking to the players or talking to retired players and getting stories about what so and so meant to a team or group. These things have been happening in pro sports way before Bill James put pencil to paper to try and explain the complex game of baseball.
Again the mental side of the game is as big if not bigger than any stat you can put out there advance stats are just stats manipulated to create their own agenda to disprove a point or validate a point. They are manipulated by the compiler to feed their own narrative. So advance people are doing the same as MSM has done for year. Only difference is numbers are attached to these points vs using athletes stories, experiences and what they saw in the clubhouse or on the field.
Regardless of what numbers people say these things exist in sports as long as it is played by human beings.
