The “robin” lays an egg

February 3, 2016 · 2 comments

Yesterday I wrote about the joy; today I write about the frustration.

Print publications like The Sporting News 2016 Baseball Yearbook are great, as long as you’re not looking for the latest information.

Case in point: The profile for the New York Mets notes

With [Daniel] Murphy and [Yoenis] Cespedes gone, [GM Sandy] Alderson must find a way to bolster the lineup further, if not by Opening Day then once again at the trading deadline.

One small “problem” — Cespedes resigned with the Mets late last month, obviously after the magazine went to the printer. That changes the analysis greatly, wouldn’t you agree?

I haven’t gone through the other profiles yet to parse them out as far as their assets versus their needs, but I’m guessing there are at least a few of those. So why should anyone pay for such outdated data?

https://jltnnva.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/yellow-pencil.jpg?resize=255%2C191Of course, being on-line is no guarantee either. Just look at this piece from Sports on Earth about the “problem with preseason predictions.”

I’ve long said there’s no point in trying to make precises prognostications. That’s a world that rarely exists. All it takes is for a starting ace to tear a ligament or a stud batter go into a prolonged slump and there it all goes.

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1 Harvey Poris February 3, 2016 at 8:35 pm

The SN Yearbook picked the Mets to win the division even without Cespedis and without Bastardo in the pen! Do these moves more than offset the Nats acquisitions after publication of Daniel Murphy, Ben Revere and Bronson Arroyo? We will find out!

2 Harvey Poris February 3, 2016 at 8:35 pm

The SN Yearbook picked the Mets to win the division even without Cespedis and without Bastardo in the pen! Do these moves more than offset the Nats acquisitions after publication of Daniel Murphy, Ben Revere and Bronson Arroyo? We will find out!

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