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Among all the acronyms deployed by baseball fans (a particularly acronym-loving people, it must be said), there’s one that carries a particular melancholy: TINSTAAPP. There Is No Such Thing As A Pitching Prospect. The latter half of that sounds rather like someone shouting “stop” in some sort of accent—STAPP! I hear it in the voice of a nasally New York gal; you may differ.