I’m as stathead as they come, but I’m not certain this is as terrible an idea as you’re making it out to be. Just because we can’t (yet) measure things like makeup or team chemistry does not mean they don’t exist. Brandon McCarthy once argued that Brandon Inge was worth 10 WAR to the 2012 Oakland A’s (http://www.baseba…

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Does anyone else, while affirming Kaepernick’s right to protest and agreeing with him on the problems of racism in our society and generally opposed to all those hot-takers who think he’s the worst thing to happen to America since 9/11....think he’s also kind of an idiot? His public statements and positions are very…

Because we’re on a sports blog, ask yourself why Yasiel Puig, Jose Fernandez, Yoenis Cespedes, and many others would have endured what they endured to come to America if Cuba was the utopia you describe.

Uh, the Lions? Every game they’ve won has been a fourth quarter comeback

He coached the Texans when they were an expansion team. Didn’t do so well.

Isn’t the whole point of Westworld that the fantasies we construct on characters we think are not real or fictional have implications regardless?

Apparently Gordon was wearing Fernandez’s batting helmet

....And why exactly does a “Jewish woman” have a “whitepride” social media handle?

2011 NBA Draft. Rockets select Kawhi Leonard (who was selected with the next pick) instead of Marcus Morris. Assuming he becomes the same basketball player he becomes in San Antonio (an assumption), he becomes just what the James Harden Rockets have needed for years; a shutdown defender who can shoot threes and take…

What Stanhope, and hell, a lot of people don’t seem to grasp is that the statement that “Depp was in a toxic and dysfunctional relationship” and the statement “Depp committed domestic abuse” are not mutually exclusive, and are probably in fact correlated. It’s exacerbated by the tendency of people to portray people’s…

I think this is a good point in that there might be a feeling of lost upward mobility; whereas in the past a player could, upon retiring, count on becoming a coach or a team executive, those jobs are now going to fresh-faced Ivy leaguers who “never played the game” and might genuinely have difficulty thinking of the…

Right, There’s an interesting point here about language that excludes people without a higher education, which I think is actually a very valid critique of some of the liberal buzzwords that get thrown around these days (“privilege” is, ironically, a term mostly used by the privileged to signal how intellectually…

I actually left an even longer comment (of which this is part 6) on Wilbon’s page. It’s just Deadspin did a decent job on points 1-5, so I left that out. But thanks!

Given that the point of sports analytics is merely to use objective data to put out the most effective winning team, without regard to anything else that’s subjective or personal in nature, I would actually argue that analytics have done more to combat racism in sports than anything else. The privileging of data and…

Guys, Calvin Johnson hasn’t actually retired yet. The only reports are that he told the team before the season he was going to retire, and that after the season he told Jim Caldwell he hadn’t changed his mind. Caldwell told him to give the decision time, and that’s what’s already been happening. Nothing has really…

My god, that Liel Liebowitz article was bad, even by his very low standards.

Man, he really took that Dave Chapelle line about Wayne Brady personally.

I don’t think so. I think Zobrist is actually the perfect insurance policy for Baez. If Baez breaks out, they play Zobrist in the OF. If he doesn’t, they play him at second.

What Dombrowski seems to be good at, though, is overhyping his own draft picks by moving them quickly through the system so their flaws are masked by small sample sizes. Witness Andrew Miller getting called immediately to the big leagues, getting shelled, still maintaining his top prospect status, and then being a…