Do enough preview pieces, and you start to run into issues of keeping the format fresh and interesting, both for the readers and for yourself. For my second-half preview, running today and tomorrow, I’m going to do something I don’t do often, which is use it to review my previous work. I often get requests to look back at my own predictions and explain why I was wrong about something (never to explain why I was right, I’m afraid), and I try to restrict that to one piece a year. The idea is that I’m writing about baseball, not about some guy’s predictions, and I think you can unconsciously get into some bad habits if you self-check too much.
Baseball Prospectus
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