GM's OFFICE: Wild pitches
Mar 5 2017
And the calendar has turned to March. Draft prep for all of us is heating up. Here’s some early scatter-shot observations and thought exercises culled from mock and industry drafts, Twitter conversations, and my desk scratch pad, among others.
How many closers do we really trust?
We know that closers in general are so volatile: as per the Baseball Forecaster, in any given year, at least 30% of them have failed to return 50% of their acquisition value in the LABR and Tout Wars experts leagues. It’s not a coincidence that the average purchase price for closers in these leagues have been in a...
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