Managing general partner Ken Kendrick revealed in an interview with the Arizona Republic that the Arizona Diamondbacks have fallen behind in baseball's information revolution.

"I think we know we don't have the balance I still think is the right way to go, and I think we need to recognize (that)," Kendrick said. "To this point, there are only a few teams that are starting to do exotic (defensive) shifts, which is an element of a much bigger picture of (baseball analytics) ...

"We aren't doing that because I don't think we have studied the data at a level they've studied it. Now how valuable is it? I guess we'll see. You'd like to have the information, make a judgment on how valuable it is, and either use it or not use it. We don't have the level of information in that category that (other teams) have. I think we need to do a better job in that area."

Kendrick noted that the team's previous general manager, Josh Byrnes, made greater use of data than Towers, who took over on Sept. 22, 2010.