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Hits and Misses in the Baseball Draft
If unpredictability is so much of what makes sports compelling, the baseball draft might be the best place to look. This book explores the intricate uncertainties of the draft and the people who face it. Since the modern draft began in 1965, major league teams have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to identify and develop stars of the future. Whether because of injury, poor performance or mental and physical struggles, a large percentage of the most ballyhooed prospects never reach the game's highest level. Though teams have improved in recent years at turning top picks into major leaguers, the baseball draft is still centered on educated guesswork. This book explains why.
The Inside Game
A study of some of baseball's best & worst decisions, what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how they shaped the game. "Law's take is as entertaining as it is informative. This intelligent and accessible work is a grand slam." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Baseball is a sport of decisions. Some are small and seemingly routine—what pitch to throw, when to pull a pitcher from a game—while others—when to trade the best prospects in baseball for a chance to win now, or when to offer hundreds of millions of dollars to a twenty-eight-year-old superstar—are so big they can determine the future of a franchise. With choices like these, the science of decision-making ...
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