Over at the main site, the BP prospect team released the Cubs’ Top 10 Prospect list today. This is, of course, cause for celebration. It also means that we can finally wrap up prospect season with a comparison of six of the most popular prospect lists: Keith Law’s at ESPN, Baseball America’s, John Sickles’s at minorleagueball.com, FanGraphs’s, MLB.com’s, […]
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Another Turning Point, a Little More Clarity
It was my senior year of high school, and like many teenagers, I thought I had it all figured out. My father had scheduled a meeting with some of my teachers in hopes of getting some updates on my progress that year. It ended up being a rather harmless chat, but after most everyone had […]
The Consequences of Clarity
On the final day of March, 2015, I got an email that changed my life. I was a grad student then, living in London and only periodically achieving a level of wealth which allowed me to rub two pennies together. About three weeks earlier, I’d sent a guy I’d barely heard of—Sahadev Sharma—an email out of the blue, asking for a job […]