As front offices try to find the perfect recipe, Nationals GM Mike Rizzo puts scouting before analytics

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WASHINGTON — They don’t have a single person in their front office from Harvard, Yale or M.I.T.

They believe in pouring money into their scouting and player department.

They have 10 scouts and advisers who are 60 or older – including two who were alive the last time the nation’s capital had a team in the World Series.

They are the Washington Nationals.

And they are putting on  on the Houston Astros.

The Nationals are proving that it’s

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