The Astros, though, had developed a method of integrating a recently overlooked source of information back into their decision-making: humans. They synthesized human observations into their probabilistic models, and made humans responsible for triaging—and sometimes rejecting—the results. And they realized those results were rarely indisputable, relating, as they did, to human beings, with their mutability and unpredictability. They sought to identify players who were unsatisfied with their lot, who possessed an uncommon drive and ability to improve. A growth mindset, they called it.
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