Well Alright, Okay, You Win

I bow to the inevitable.

Just received the only baseball annual I could find for the new season: Lindy’s Baseball 2024 Preview. It has the usual features one has come to expect from such print publications so I won’t go into detail…again. I’ve written on this topic ad naseum.

Suffice it to say that the first thing I did was check out the article about my New York Mets. Uh-oh. Where’s their new outfield acquisition, Harrison Bader? I mean, they signed him as a free agent on January 5. Obviously the magazine went to press before that. And that’s no good because I would expect the writers base their predictions on the information they have at the time. I’m not saying that Bader is an elite player and would make the Mets world-beaters, but it nevertheless changes the team’s configuration/depth chart/etc. Matt Snell just signed with the San Francisco Giants; he’s also absent from any roster in Lindy’s.

Can’t say as I blame them. They’re just trying to do their job as best they can while there’s still some sort of market for the product. But I’m sure people who are into this stuff primarily for the fantasy value get their information from online sources that are much more up-to-the-minute. Me, I’m just a sucker; I’ll still get it for the nostalgia factor.

By the way, if you haven’t purchased yours by now, forget about it. Just about every issue is out of stock. I had to settle for this version because the one featuring New Yorkers Aaron Judge and Pete Alonso was sold out.

If anyone out their knows of another publication along these lines, please let me know.