Modern day baseball is built around spreadsheets, color-coded scouting reports, and analytics. But there’s a certain type of player that data can’t measure.
Dodgers 2025 World Series hero Miguel Rojas is one of those players. He’s made a career out of living in the blind spots. On Tuesday, in an Instagram comment to a post by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, he made sure everyone remembered.
Passan shared a clip from a sitdown interview with Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts and Blue Jays manager John Schneider as they revisited the epic 2025 World Series, Game 7, specifically.
Schneider didn’t mince words when he mentioned that the data and analytics on Blue Jays’ pitcher Jeff Hoffman vs. Rojas was heavily tilted in Toronto’s favor.
“I can say this, and it is no offense to anyone, that Hoffman vs. Rojas was the best on the sheet,” said Schneider. “Part of our projection was ground out, pop out or fly out. It’s not like a slam dunk punch out, but it was something like that, not the actual outcome.”
There’s just one exception. The game of baseball doesn’t care about projections or what looks the best on the sheet.
The actual outcome was Rojas launching a game-tying home run in the top of the ninth inning with the Dodgers down to their final two outs. It was the first game-tying homer in the ninth inning or late in a Game 7 of a World Series in MLB history.
So when the clip found its way to his Instagram, Rojas didn’t let it pass quietly.
“Yeah, the story of my life,” he wrote. “I’ve been red on every manager’s card… fire me up. Analytics never count the heart or the balls.”
Preach, Miggy Ro!
Rojas is proof of the boundaries of analytics in modern day baseball and he wears his label of being “red” on opposing teams reports like a badge of honor.
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