Slightly Better than Replacement Level
It’s ironic that someone who spends a good deal of his time writing from a sabermetrics point of view hadn’t read Moneyball until today, but I am who I am I suppose. My lack of modern baseball culture aside, I was interested in Moneyball. However, as the pages went by I became more interested, only […]
Upon finishing Solid Fool’s Gold I had to check my bookshelf to see how many more Bill James books I had left to read. A few years back before I had gotten too deep into the more analytical side of baseball I had bought a handful of James books based on reputation alone. I haven’t […]
A common question in the medical field is, “should we do this?” What that means is that by taking all the evidence into account is it worth it to implement a certain strategy, conduct a research study, try to craft a new medicine, etc. This question is important, and it came to mind while reading […]
There comes a point when an author can overwhelm a book. I’m not talking about the author’s style or manner of prose, although both of those can be true. Rather, what I’m referring to in this case is when the personality of the author overwhelms whatever it is they are trying to write. In book […]
I’m a fan of baseball history, anyone who follows me on Twitter or reads my writing regularly knows this is the case. My wife knows this as well, she’s also quite aware of my lifelong fandom of the Chicago Cubs. Thus, when thinking of random gifts to get me for some occasion or another, she […]