http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/02/maddon-reaches-into-the-unknown-as-arrieta-reaches-new-heights/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/02/maddon-reaches-into-the-unknown-as-arrieta-reaches-new-heights/#comment-4701 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 02:20:22 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=5012#comment-4701 Excellent article. I find myself making sure to read your articles when I see your name there over this last year. I was just reading an article in the New Yorker by Adrian Cárdenas about Rizzo that had a link to an earlier article he wrote about why he left baseball, and one of the things he cited in that article was an inability as a ballplayer being paid to feel transcendence in victory the way he had as an amateur. I know that this applies to him mostly, but I can’t help but think that this is something that Madden understands, that players want to connect to something deeper, and that the knowledge that that’s there waiting if you can dig deep enough and long enough, is something he wants the players to understand – maybe that’s the difference in an extra inning game during a day game after a night game, maybe it’s the impetus in training just a bit harder. To me, it shows you how much one of the smartest managers in the game thinks chemistry and these types of moments matter. You touched on that in your article, but I thought it jived really nicely with this article I’d just read twenty minutes before.

]]> http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/02/maddon-reaches-into-the-unknown-as-arrieta-reaches-new-heights/#comment-4663 Sun, 04 Oct 2015 02:29:02 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=5012#comment-4663 Holy cow, that was the best and most ambitious piece I’ve ever read from you. Great work.

]]> http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/10/02/maddon-reaches-into-the-unknown-as-arrieta-reaches-new-heights/#comment-4642 Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:23:14 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=5012#comment-4642 This is, simply, an excellent, excellent article, and one of the many reasons I keep hitting refresh at BP. And as a Cub fan, the article reminds me of a question I’ve been asking myself all year: Joe Maddon, where have you been all my life?

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