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the Oakland Athletics have stellar pitching clutch hitting and a high-tech tool to help beat their opponents this would be the lineup of the last team we play the little things matter the team that does the little things the most each and every day is probably gonna play the Opposition throughout the season the A's first base and outfield coach ty Waller developed a sophisticated player database using FileMaker software he's able to take hundreds of Statistics every day and easily organize them to help the A's form a game plan ok six bucks against left-handers six bucks against right-handers Wohlers program keeps track of everything from how a batter hits against a certain picture to his speed to where he tends to hit the ball the information helps Waller position the A's outfielders he also records the stats of more than 2,000 pitchers so he can advise base runners their times at first base if they slide step their moves times a second and various looks for Waller going digital has replaced tedious hand written reports when we first started doing these reports we used to get a binder I don't know how thick you know how big of a suitcase we would have to you have to carry all those things now it's all in this little box are the phone are the iPad before every series Waller uses the data to strategize with other coaches what approach do you want to try to take with this guy are you gonna pitch him one way early in a different way late I mainly he's looking to pull the baseball we're gonna try and keep it away from after tae generates the reports he posts them here in the dugout so even the players can get on the same page Waller has no formal tech training but taught himself about programming he's been building out the database since 2007 constantly improving it I'm an old school guy with a new school spin on a team with one of the best records in baseball boys in Oakland I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News