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Creative use of statistical analysis helped Ari Kaplan have his Dodgers’ dreams come true.

Kaplan took his research and interviews with the Dodgers and made a career. “I was able to articulate it so effectively that Caltech allowed me to present to the [school’s] Board of Trustees,” says Kaplan. “I explained what I thought was a better system of evaluating pitchers. It was a big thing to say that a billion-dollar industry was not using the best analytics.

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