Saturday five, 11/8/14.

I’m still on vacation, enjoying Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade with the family and getting some reading time in too, but all the stuff I filed for ESPN before leaving is going up:

* My top 50 free agent rankings, with scouting reports on each.
* My offseason buyers’ guides to:
Starting pitchers
Relief pitchers
Outfielders
Corner infielders
Middle infielders

The guide to catchers will go up Sunday, and on Monday my NL ROY ballot column will go up after the winner is announced.

And now, the links…

Comments

  1. FYI typo “fly shot”

  2. The case for drinking coffee is a solid one, and I certainly do enjoy it. But it definitely matters what one puts in it. Drinking it black is one thing; mixing it with nasty chemicals that are in powdered creamers, or even milk (which is bad for you despite what the AMA was preaching all my life)—not to mention sugar—is quite another issue.

    • I saw the articles on milk and longevity go by this week, but the two underlying studies can’t be definitive with such small samples, can they? Seems like a great example of where we need more studies to feed into a meta-study that looks at them all.

      EDIT: actually, I think I confused those studies with those of another subject. The milk (d-galactose) study was very disturbing, although I don’t drink much of it straight and do eat a lot of yogurt.

  3. Link fir fair trade coffee links to flu shot article.

  4. You could link to J Kenji-Alt every week.

  5. Nigel from Cameroon

    Does anyone have a recommendation on using honey in coffee in place of artificial sweetener? How much is needed as a per pack replacement?

  6. @Nigel: I don’t sweeten my coffee, but I do use agave nectar in tea. Maybe half a teaspoon of agave instead of 3/4 tsp of white or raw sugar.