{"id":8430,"date":"2020-05-09T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T00:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2020-05-10T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:16:54","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-9-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/09\/stick-to-baseball-5-9-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/9\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was back writing this week, with three new pieces for The\nAthletic: how MLB’s decision to cut the draft\nto five rounds hurts players and the sport<\/a>; a look back at the 2004 draft\nand what might have happened had the Padres\ntaken Justin Verlander at #1 overall<\/a>; and a profile of Dodgers prospect Brandon\nLewis, who changed his diet and conditioning habits to transform his body and become a fourth-round\npick<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My second book, The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange\nMoves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves<\/em>, is now out,\nand you can buy it anywhere you buy books, like here via bookshop.org<\/a>,\nwhich supports independent bookstores directly or by providing logistics and\ndelivery for them. I’m donating my proceeds from sales of my book through my\naffiliate account there to charity, sending $100 this week to the Food Bank of\nDelaware, our local food pantry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WIRED<\/em> excerpted part\nof the first chapter<\/a> of The Inside Game<\/em>, on anchoring bias and why\nit tells us to move to an automated strike zone; the link made Pocket’s Best Of\nlist this week. I also spoke to Inside Science<\/em> about\nthe book<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I appeared on the Poscast this week with Joe Posnanski and\nEllen Adair, which you can listen to on The Athletic<\/a>,\nApple<\/a>,\nSpotify<\/a>,\nor Stitcher<\/a>;\nand on the Inquiring Minds podcast, which you can get on Apple<\/a>\nor Stitcher<\/a>.\nOn The Keith Law Show, I had Meghan Montemurro, our Phillies writer, on to talk\nabout that team and the Athletic’s ongoing OOTP simulation of the 2020 season;\nyou can listen on The\nAthletic<\/a>, Apple<\/a>,\nSpotify<\/a>,\nor Stitcher<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sent out another edition of my email newsletter this week to\nsubscribers \u2013 it’s free, and easy to\nsign up<\/a>, and no one has ever complained that I send it too often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n