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Craig Wright is a brilliant analyst of the game. You know how that goes – ‘intelligent’ means that he agrees with me; ‘brilliant’ means that I agree with him but I never would have thought of it myself.”

Bill James
Senior Baseball Advisor
Boston Red Sox

 

 

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 Eric Nadel who is the producer and voice of the show.)

Craig lives in his beloved Montana with his wife, Cathy, and their son, Joshua. Their daughter Laina is a student at Macalester College. Rounding out the family are Emma the dog and their three cats: Scout, Charlie, and Tom.   

Click here to learn more about the book The Diamond Appraised

 

The first business card in baseball using the title “sabermetrician” caused quite a stir in those days.

I stopped using that title around 1990 because the meaning had shifted too far from a scientific approach to baseball to one focused on statistical analysis of baseball.

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

That's not me.

 


The ongoing series of stories, A Page from Baseball’s Past, is written and researched by Craig Wright. It has been delighting fans on the radio for a quarter century, and now you can get the enhanced
E-version delivered to your Email inbox.

BaseballsPast.com

 

 

 

The Diamond Appraised baseball column is dedicated to Eddie Robinson