A rookie draft in the EFL is supposed to accomplish all the following: –Nothing should come easy. Computer picks should...
Archive - February 2016
The 2015 Rookie Draft: A Look Back
So we’re all frantically combing through the BP book, and others of its ilk, preparing for the big rookie draft. This...
Computer Rankings of Rookies
A month or so ago I published a list of rookies as the drafting program rated them. I only included the players that had a...
Balk Big Bang
It was an expansion draft, all right — the D.C. Balk went from 2 to 15 players in about an hour. Kind of like the Big Bang...
Short thoughts on shortstops
Wouldn’t it be aesthetically satisfying if the Balk picked Alcides Escobar from the Dragons? Escobar would then have been...
The Rule V Draft, Amplified Version
Ron has posted the “minutes of the EFL Winter Meeting” with his usual accuracy and conciseness (concisnity?) but I...
We’re doing it all wrong!
I was sitting here getting ready for class in the morning when a notice popped up on my email about an article on Bill James...
Pearls, Revisited
In a recent email Tom referred to “The Votaw Rules” and I was gratified to note that I have an actual fan. I was...