One of my favorite games to play is to take a fact from the baseball season, and imagine being presented with it before the year began. How would you react? What false conclusions would you jump to? How blindsided would you be by the reality of the situation?
Here’s a great example from this year. Imagine it’s February, you’re pondering the start of Spring Training, and I tell you that a Giant will be in the race for Rookie of the Year. Who do you think it is? What in the world do you think happened?
Here are the options I would have thought of:
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