Someone will read this article as triumph des nerds, a seamhead praising our new sabermetric overlord. But I honestly don’t think the Mets’ biggest lacking these past few years has been a statistically-inclined leader. The blatant disregard for industry-standard statistics was just symptomatic of generally poor leadership, unwilling to challenge their own ideas, unable to think critically about the Mets’ problems.

It’s hard to imagine Sandy Alderson letting a top prospect jump between three levels of competition in one year, burning arbitration clock, breaking his development schedule. I don’t think Sandy Alderson would let a field manager play washed up veterans over promising young players for months at a time. Sandy Alderson wouldn’t see a team riddled with injury risk and lineup holes, and sink the team’s entire budget into a single aging outfielder. And none of that has to do with On Base Percentage.

So welcome to the Moneyball Mets, a team built on sense, not one imagined dogma or another. Maybe when we’re all cheering, the bickering will end.