My entire top 100 prospects package is now up for The Athletic subscribers. That includes:
- The top 100
- The players who just missed
- The ranking of all 30 farm systems
- The team reports, including a top 20 for each club:
I also wrote my first draft post of 2020, covering a pair of potential #1 overall picks in Emerson Hancock and Asa Lacy. I held a Klawchat on Thursday.
Episode #2 brand-new podcast, The Keith Law Show (also on iTunes), went up this past week, with guest Carlos Rodriguez, VP of Player Development and International Scouting for the Tampa Bay Rays. My thanks to all of you who’ve subscribed and/or left five-star ratings.
My second book, The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves, is due out on April 21st from Harper Collins, and you can pre-order it now via their site or wherever fine books are sold. Also, check out my free email newsletter, which I say I’ll write more often than I actually write it.
I only have a few links this week, between travel and the way that the news has been so focused on coronavirus. The best thing I read this week on that topic was Julia Belluz’s piece for Vox on why China’s COVID-19 case rate started declining. An infectious disease doctor answered some common questions about COVID-19 for WBUR.org.
Other links I found worth sharing:
- Barnes & Noble’s new hedge fund owners are trying to turn the chain into something more like indie stores.
- David J. Roth’s piece on The Infinite Scroll is a brilliant distillation of the frustration of looking for or reading content online.
- Nike, Apple, and Adidas are among the brands using forced Uighur labor in Chinese factories to produce their Goods, according to an investigation by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
- The Nation spoke to former Bloomberg campaign staffers about its rapid implosion.
- The great legacy board game Charterstone is back in print after a long wait.