At the trade deadline, I broke down the following trades for subscribers to The Athletic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also posted a midseason ranking of the top 60 prospects in the minors<\/a>, held a Q&A about it<\/a>, and wrote up a scouting notebook on Travis Bazzana, Braylon Doughty, and some other Cleveland and Baltimore prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Endless Mode, I ranked the ten best new games I saw at Gen Con<\/a> and also ran through everything else I saw or played at the convention<\/a> this year. Prior to that, I reviewed the game Big Sur<\/a>, and wrote a feature story on the effects of the Trump tariffs and economic uncertainty<\/a> on the board gaming space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I appeared on NPR\u2019s Morning Edition to discuss the brief callup of Jen Pawol<\/a> to become the first woman to umpire an MLB game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that this post is done, my next writing assignment is my free email newsletter<\/a>, followed by a pair of reviews for this site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the trade deadline, I broke down the following trades for subscribers to The Athletic: I also posted a midseason ranking of the top 60 prospects in the minors, held a Q&A about it, and wrote up a scouting notebook on Travis Bazzana, Braylon Doughty, and some other Cleveland and Baltimore prospects. At Endless Mode, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1049,1429,1083,1125,128,1387,939,1456,190,961,1115,1197,799,907,870,1044,483,807,1478],"class_list":["post-10905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-semitism","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-board-game-news","tag-colorado","tag-florida","tag-gaza","tag-harvard","tag-immigration","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-pennsylvania","tag-police","tag-science","tag-social-media","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-tennessee","tag-utah","tag-vaccines","tag-war-crimes","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10906,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions\/10906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n