Chris Snow is taking the Globe sports page by storm. Though his Minky-Millar statistical analysis was far from perfect, it was clear he had done some work and even clearer that he was interested in arriving at a conclusion based upon objective analysis. Now comes a feature length piece in which he does even more - gasp - work, interviewing four key figures in the Boston Red Sox front office, Peter Woodfork, Galen Carr, Jed Hoyer and Brian O’Halloran.

They’re an intrepid group, all between ages 28 and 33. Two are married. None has kids, though one has a child on the way. They are among Theo Epstein’s most valued employees, all situated just feet outside the general manager’s office at desks, cubicles, or small work stations.

“Officles,” Epstein prefers.

They work until 7 most nights, sometimes until 2 a.m., sometimes all night. They are representative of the zeitgeist that now pervades Major League Baseball: young, analytical, and armed with broad skill sets. They favor black sweaters over shirts and ties, pickup football and basketball over more passive pastimes.

Can’t you just picture the CHB shoulder-bumping Snow in the hallways like Union workers trying to intimidate the high school kid without his Union card for working too hard on a construction job? “Take it easy kid, that’s not how we do things around here.” Well let me just say that I think Snow is doing one hell of a good job. He has brought a renewed sense of what truly good journalistic work is to a Globe sports page that was in dire need of somebody of Snow’s hardworking and objective ilk.

I would also like to once again point out how fortunate we are to be rooting for this organization. While (save for a few teams) fogyism pervades MLB and so many executives address the press like there isn’t anything in baseball that they don’t know, Boston’s baseball club employs youthful and energetic intellectuals that crave information.

So kudos to Chris Snow and the front office of the Boston Red Sox. Something tells me that what we are seeing from both is just the tip of the iceberg.