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Other valuable resources where data or reporting was drawn from include Baseball-Reference.com, FanGraphs.com, MLB.com BrooksBaseball.net, Grantland.com, the SABR BioProject, Forbes.com, CBSSports.com, TheSportingNews.com, PiratesProspects.com, Bloomberg.com, Deadspin.com, The Wall Street Journal, Jon Roegele’s Tommy John database, ROOT Sports, BillJamesOnline.com, and of course Bill James’s Baseball Abstracts. The Baseball Abstracts are where the big data revolution began, with James’s call to gather better and, most important, a greater volume of data so we can better understand this beautiful and yet mysterious game.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TRAVIS SAWCHIK covers the Pirates and Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Sawchik has won national Associated Press Sports Editor awards for enterprise writing and numerous state-level awards. Sawchik’s work has been featured or referenced on ESPN, Grantland.com, and the MLB Network. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
1. THE MEETING
2. DEMONS
3. PROVING GROUNDS
4. THE HIDDEN VALUE
5. POINT OF NO RETURN
6. SHIFTING THE PLAYING FIELD
7. ATTRITION
8. SPINNING GOLD
9. THE MISSING ALL-STARS
10. GEOGRAPHY TEST
11. ARMS RACE
12. MAGIC ACT
EPILOGUE: A PERFECT CIRCLE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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