Ken Gurnick of MLB.com looks at Ned Colletti's intriguing new front-office hire: director of contracts, research and operations Alex Tamin:... "People view me as old-school, focused on scouting," said Colletti. "But I've always used statistical analysis; we'll use more of it now. That doesn't mean every decision we make will now be based on statistical analysis. You're still at the mercy of the market. So this doesn't mean everybody we bring in will have a .400 on-base percentage or an .800 [on-base plus slugging percentage]. Sometimes, it's just about who's out there."One guy out there was Tamin. The attorney spent 14 years at the law firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, where he assisted on baseball arbitration cases with Mark Rosenthal, the primary