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Craig R. Wright worked 21 years in major league
baseball, primarily in the area of player evaluation. He was one of the early
pioneers taking an approach that integrated science with baseball. He also
was a consultant for a dozen years with STATS Inc, designing their products
for major league teams and some cross-over products used by the media. He is
the primary author of The Diamond Appraised
(Simon & Shuster) as well as The Man Who Stole First Base (Taylor Publishing)
which is a collection of stories from the long-running radio show A Page from Baseball’s Past, which he also researches and writes. (The show was
created in partnership with Craig lives in his
beloved Click here to
learn more about the book The Diamond Appraised
Like a lot of folks who find
themselves saddled with a public persona, there have been things put out in
the public domain about my career that are off the mark – sometimes to the
point of being exactly the opposite of the truth or literally involving a
completely different person. You get used to having to live with such
nonsense, and it was a delight to realize that here was an opportunity to
correct some of the false notions. Most are such obvious mistakes that they
quickly fall by the wayside and are not worth addressing. For example, a
writer for the Associated Press once criticized the impact my book The Diamond Appraised had
on pitching practices in baseball, and specifically credited it with helping
to kill the 4-man pitching rotation – a rather remarkable charge given my advocacy
of the 4-man rotation which included a chapter in the book titled “Bring Back
the Four-Man Rotation.” It turned out the writer had never even seen the
book, and sincerely apologized for being misled without checking out the
facts. To help straighten out a few things I have four sub-pages you can
visit: My problem with “Moneyball,” by
Michael Lewis My Corrections and Additions to “The Numbers Game,” by Alan
Schwarz Wikipedia Twisting the Truth - Voros McCracken Entry |
The ongoing series
of stories, A Page from Baseball’s Past, is written and researched by |
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