SAN DIEGO — Padres radio broadcaster Jesse Agler scrolls through the files on his laptop at Petco Park, and the ridiculous volume of information available is astounding.
It's every team the club has played, every season, since Agler began chronicling things in 2015. It's the ultimate electronic deep dive, with stats, trends, trivia and a treasure-trove of broadcast-filling whatnot.
When Agler read something tantalizing in December about Andrew McCutchen wearing No. 22 again with the Pirates, a morsel that would be unusable until at least late June, it landed in a file.