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GM's OFFICE: Themes from the Baseball Forecaster, and other existential questions
Dec 6 2019
Growing up, I was never a huge fan of Thanksgiving. I've come to appreciate it more in my mid-life, and this job is a big part of the reason. The cadence of the fall is dominated by the Baseball Forecaster: it hangs like a shadow over September, as I prep player lists and re-confirm staff assignments in the season's final weeks. Then the season ends and the outright sprint begins. It's an immersion in player analysis, chart cross-checking, analysis-editing, typo-finding, and everything else that goes into producing a 280-page book from thin air in the span of seven-ish weeks.
A bit of insider info: our deadline to get the book to print is always the Friday before Thanksgiving. (We beat that by a day this year.) Then, Brent and I have a...
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