Why Run When You Can Jog?
When I was younger in school, a popular card game that made its way through my social circle was called MLB Showdown. The cards featured players that my friends and I loved to watch,...
Monthly Archive: March 2019
Has the Extension Market Eclipsed the Free Agent Market?
Just as the regular season is really upon us, an “Extension Fever” of sorts has swept through MLB. In the past week alone, four nine-figure contracts have been awarded to players who, in decades...
Felix’s Streak, In Scatter Plots
As MLB’s 2019 Opening Day nears, managers seemingly take turns naming their starters of choice to begin their teams’ season. It is of note that Felix Hernandez will not, for the first time in...
My Very Subjective Problem with WAR
A long time ago, relatively speaking, a really smart guy named Aristotle proposed, among many other thoughts and concepts, three modes of persuasion. His modes of persuasion were ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is...
Soccer, Basketball, and Where Baseball Lies in Between.
I was recently listening to a podcast called Revisionist History. Revisionist History, hosted by the (among other things) journalist and writer Malcolm Gladwell, is really, really good, but that isn’t the point here. ...
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