Here’s a little inside baseball about something that’s … well, inside baseball.
You know all of those tidbits of statistical data that your friendly neighborhood beat writer (or wise-acre columnist) uses to populate their stories with facts and context on a daily basis?
Not all of them come from the writers’ own accounting and research. Some do, maybe even most for the more enterprising writers who have mastered baseball-reference.com’s Stathead search feature.
But even independent homework is often buttressed by information provided by the daily notes packet provided by Justin Long and the Red Sox public relations staff.