JUPITER, Fla. • One of his treasured souvenirs of youth was a talisman of sorts – a Reggie Jackson 1980 TOPPS baseball card that Burton Rocks got in a wax pack given him in the hospital. The card was a sidekick, traveling with him from hospital to home and the times he had to go back. He has owned the card for the majority of his life and knows its creases like he knows the ones on the back of his hand.
“I’m extremely concerned that analytics have hijacked the game,” said Rocks, now a certified agent in baseball.