Word: draft
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Consider, for example, junior infielder Zak Farkes. Farkes was taken in the 39th round by the Boston Red Sox as a draft eligible sophomore last June, after a season in which he batted .342 with a .425 OBP and a .691 slugging percentage in 152 at-bats...
Compare those numbers to those of Landon Powell, a catcher from South Carolina that was selected in the first round of the same draft by the most famous figure of stats-based scouting, Oakland GM Billy Beane. Powell batted .330-.427-.611 in 270 at-bats. If you make the overly simplifying assumption that OPS is an indicator of success, Farkes’ numbers are better. But they are also more difficult to trust...
...look down on since the arrival of Moneyball. It is the scouts—the men like these, casually jotting down notes while nestled between the back stop and the large protective net behind home plate—that are responsible for Ivy Leaguers going high in the draft...
...Dylan P. Reese ’07, an NHL draft pick and economics concentrator, a combination of academic curiosity and an interest in pre-professional business studies steered him toward the economics department...
...elections are a contest between hope and fear. This year fear is winning. We have gone way beyond the traditional red scare or Medi-scare deployments. The Kerry campaign warns darkly that the President has secret plans to do all kinds of nefarious things upon re-election: reinstate the draft, privatize Social Security and, brace yourself, lower dairy prices - the prospect of which in Wisconsin, where Kerry made the charge last month, can make a grown man cry. Of course, the biggest "fear" scandal of the campaign thus far (the night is young) was Vice President Dick Cheney saying that...