The Baseball 100
The first rule of child psychology is that it applies throughout all of life.
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller • The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Meanwhile, although baseball is a team sport, it proceeds in a highly orderly way: pitchers take their turn in the rotation, hitters take their turn in the batting order, and they are largely responsible for their own statistics.* There are relatively few problems involving complexity and nonlinearity. The causality is easy to sort out.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“There is no one way to hit,” Yelich said in October 2018. Nor is there one way to develop players.
Travis Sawchik • The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the tea... See more
MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
And they owe it to what Baseball Twitter would call a TOOTBLAN, “Thrown Out on the Bases Like a Nincompoop.”