This piece, written by Baseball Prospectus’s Ashley Varela, forms part of the main site’s comprehensive coverage of the postseason, “Playoff Prospectus”. If you’ve read this site for any length of time, you know that cherry-picked statistics often do more harm than good when it comes to player evaluation. When used to appreciate the Cubs’ long […]
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Playoff Prospectus: The Highlight Reel—World Series G1
This piece, written by Baseball Prospectus’s Ashley Varela, forms part of the main site’s comprehensive coverage of the postseason, “Playoff Prospectus”. Sandy Koufax was the first to do it, as you may well imagine. On a Wednesday in 1963, in front of 69,000 fans bleeding navy and white pinstripes over the wooden seats of a […]