Today’s links will self-destruct five seconds after you’ve clicked all of them. So you might want to back away from your computing machine when you’re done ...
All The Links That’s Fit To Click
* The Platoon Advantage brings us the All-Time Tiny Team.
* I can’t quite believe NotGraphs’ Dayn Perry went through all of them, but I’m sure his list of the 25 best Onion baseball articles is solid.
* It’s not often that Ross Douthat mixes it up with Bill James ... so when he does, we read.
* I’ve been holding this long Bloomberg piece about modern baseball metrics for a week, figuring I would do something long with it. I give up. It’s yours, to do with what you will.
* What? You don’t have your copy of John Sickels’ Prospect Book 2011 yet? Well get on it, man!
* Bay City Ball’s Rory Paap with a nice follow-up on Shutdowns and Meltdowns.
* As expected, the NCAA’s new rules about bats have cut home runs way down this season.
* Gosh sakes, I didn’t realize -- until I saw Mike Dodd’s piece yesterday -- that 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Major League Baseball’s first round of expansion.
* I just wrote about this last week, but just in case you still take contraction talk seriously, here’s Maury Brown with a long essay explaining why such talk simply isn’t realistic.
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