{"id":8652,"date":"2020-09-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8652"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:46:20","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-12-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/12\/stick-to-baseball-9-12-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/12\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had several posts for subscribers to the Athletic this week. One was another scouting notebook looking at several top 100 prospects who debuted recently<\/a>, including Ian Anderson, Ke’Bryan Hayes, and Deivi Garcia. Another looked at what the planned changes to the 2021 draft might mean<\/a> in practice. The third was a Q&A with our Red Sox beat writer Jen McCaffrey, discussing the state of Boston’s farm system<\/a>. I held a Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over at Paste, I reviewed Nova Luna<\/a>, one of the nominees for this year’s Spiel des Jahres award. It’s a reboot of an earlier game called Habitats, rethemed and redesigned by Uwe Rosenberg (Patchwork, Agricola). It’s very good, and definitely good for family play with kids 8 and up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve resumed writing my email newsletter<\/a> more regularly recently, helped by the resumption of the baseball season and a few other things that have made life a bit more normal. Also, here’s your reminder that my second book, The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves<\/em>, is available on bookshop.org<\/a> and anywhere you buy books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Peterson, the Cardinals’ area scout in South Carolina and Georgia, has COVID-19 and is on a ventilator. You can join me in donating to his GoFundMe here<\/a> \u2026 and maybe consider what it would be like to live in a country where we didn’t have to do this to pay our medical bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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