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Chicago Cubs hired a baseball scientist last month. Meet Mike Sonne — and see what he hopes to do for the team’s on-field perfor

Mike Sonne likes to joke that his family members are terrible Canadians. They don’t care much, if at all, for hockey. But they love baseball. When Sonne was a kid, it became a tradition to attend a Blue Jays game on his birthday. After moving from Toronto to Windsor, Ontario, all that separated them from a big-league game was the Detroit River and roughly three miles to the Tigers ballpark. “I was a baseball fan,” Sonne told the Tribune, “and then it became evident that there was so much publicly available baseball data that I could start testing hypotheses and do those nerdy things that I love to do.” His unique baseball journey brought him to the Chicago Cubs.

 

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