Today’s links would actually rather you didn’t click on them. Whether because of shyness or humility, no one can really say for sure ...
Links Only Their Mothers Can Love
* We’re only a week away from the two-day sabermetrics seminar in Boston. I just wish I could be there.
* Larry Granillo breaks down the pros and cons of expanded video review better than anywhere I’ve seen before.
* Why does Joe Posnanski think steroids are (mostly) out of baseball? Embarrassment. And I think he’s (almost) exactly right.
* How do we know that Murray Chass knows more about labor issues than any other sportswriter? Because he told us so. And there’s some other good stuff in there, too.
* Sometimes people ask me questions, and usually I answer them as best I can.
* Man, do I ever love stuff like this.
* Yeah it’s two weeks old, but this piece about dead money is evergreen.
* Speaking of evergreen, David Schoenfield’s treatise on the development of winning pitchers is essential unless you don’t want to know just how difficult it is to develop winning pitchers.
* So this is approximately what I would have been like at 16, if I’d known anything about the Negro Leagues and been more self-motivated and less self-involved.











