TROY, N.Y. — Ozney Guillen went to a prep school and two colleges in Miami, but his real education came in the White Sox clubhouse.



“I grew up with adults, that’s something people don’t understand,” Ozney says. “I grew up in a clubhouse.”



As a lanky teenager, Ozney listened and he learned. And when his father, Ozzie Guillen, and his right-hand man, Joey Cora, would talk about baseball, Ozney recognized the dichotomy between their approaches.



“Opposites,” Ozney says one day in his own manager’s office in an upstate New York ballpark. “Complete opposites. Joey’s the first guy to do analytics that I ever saw. The first guy. My dad would grab the numbers and throw them in the trash, literally these same little papers, he’d throw them in the trash.”



Joey Cora, a Vanderbilt graduate who favored defensive shifting, could have been at the forefront of the analytics...