This link will take you to a post from Baseball Time In Arlington, which links to a different post in which a former Astros intern dishes on The Apparatus, circa 2007. It's alarming, and horrifying, and should be qualified as hearsay. But still. I'm not going to pull the whole thing, but here's the gist:
-The scouts hate Moneyball, but haven't read it.
-A local first round pick had "make-up" concerns, which means they pretty much all knew he was on PEDs, and later did test positive.
-The Apparatus has nothing in the way of sabermetric analysis. This intern taught them how to use Excel. The Assistant GM was only interested in a certain catcher's batting average, and was in the Majors quickly, where "he has been a huge disappointment for the club."
Etc.
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
