The tools used to analyze MLB aren't easily applied to developing players

Rockies news and links for Monday November 15, 2015.This article's target audience is people in the public sphere who research and write about baseball. The guiding question is this: "why do Sabermetricians rarely talk about player development?" Russell Carleton rightly points out that player development analysis tends to be focused only on what players do post-development, which really misses the mark. Carleton then suggests a few items today's analysts need to consider before delving into the the nitty gritty of player development.

Namely, there is a relative lack of information about players in development; there's inconvenient fact that each player is different and has different…