When Keith Law wrote his primer that distilled decades of baseball analysis into something user-friendly for the average fan, he called it “Smart Baseball”. It’s an apt term, both for the book and for the entire manner of that our thinking about this sport has transformed over the past 20 years. And to some extent, the way that it’s seemingly gone to its most absurd and sometimes unseemly extremes.
Logic will break your heart...
Logic will break your heart...
Logic will break your heart...
When Keith Law wrote his primer that distilled decades of baseball analysis into something user-friendly for the average fan, he called it “Smart Baseball”. It’s an apt term, both for the book and for the entire manner of that our thinking about this sport has transformed over the past 20 years. And to some extent, the way that it’s seemingly gone to its most absurd and sometimes unseemly extremes.