{"id":8476,"date":"2020-06-14T19:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2020-06-14T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T23:07:13","slug":"stick-to-baseball-6-14-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/14\/stick-to-baseball-6-14-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 6\/14\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The MLB draft has come and gone, and subscribers to the Athletic\ncan read all of my analysis. I broke down the draft classes for every team, with\nNational League teams’ drafts<\/a> and American League teams’ drafts<\/a> in two\nseparate files. I also wrote up my analysis\nof day one<\/a> on Wednesday night, and held a\nQ&A<\/a> for subscribers on Thursday afternoon, before round two began. You can\nalso see my last mock draft<\/a>, where I got\n9 of the 29 first-round picks right, as well as pick #34, and at least alerted\nyou to the possibility the Marlins would take Max Meyer over Asa Lacy at 3. My Big\nBoard, showing the top 100 prospects in the\ndraft class<\/a>, went up last Saturday. It looks like 82 of those 100 players\nwere taken; the other 18 all appear to have priced themselves off of teams’ boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My guest on this\nweek’s episode of The Keith Law Show<\/a> was Jonathan Mayo, one of the draft experts\nat MLB Pipeline, to preview the draft. You can\nalso listen on Apple<\/a>, Stitcher<\/a>, or Spotify<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boston Globe<\/em> just named my second\nbook, The Inside Game:\nBad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves<\/a><\/em>,\none of its\nrecommended sports reads for the summer<\/a>. The book has garnered similar plaudits from major publications as a\nFather’s Day gift or for summer reading, including from Forbes<\/em><\/a>, The\nNew York Times<\/em><\/a>, and Raise<\/em><\/a>. My thanks to all of you who’ve already\nbought it; if you’re looking to pick up a copy, you can get it at bookshop.org<\/a> or perhaps at a local bookstore if they’re reopening\nnear you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll send out a new edition of my free email newsletter on Monday\nafternoon, once my latest game review (for The Crew) comes out over at Paste<\/em>.\nYou can sign up for free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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