The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team?
It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on s…
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