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What if I told you that in 2014, a major magazine predicted the worst team in baseball would win the World Series in exactly three years-and they were right? Not just close. Dead right. In June 2014, Sports Illustrated placed George Springer of the Houston Astros on their cover with a headline so audacious it drew mockery from their own writers: "YOUR 2017 WORLD SERIES CHAMPS." The Astros had just endured three consecutive seasons of 100+ losses, sometimes drawing 0.0 local TV ratings and appearing as a punchline on Jeopardy! Yet on November 1, 2017, that very same George Springer became World Series MVP as Houston claimed its first championship. This wasn't luck or prophecy-it was the culmination of the most radical organizational transformation in modern sports, one that offers profound lessons about how humans and machines can bring out the best in each other.