Glenn, you had a brief comment about baseball analytics at the beginning. Anyone interested in this should read work by Bill James, who is the father of sabermetrics (this applies econometric type analyses to the study of baseball). James has written dozens of books on this. His Historical Baseball Abstract is also very good in both editions. He was also hired as a consultant by the Red Sox from about 2002 - 2019. The Red Sox had not won a World Series since 1918, but they won the World Series four times while Bill James was advising them. Bill was also an important mentor to Nate Silver.
Glenn, you had a brief comment about baseball analytics at the beginning. Anyone interested in this should read work by Bill James, who is the father of sabermetrics (this applies econometric type analyses to the study of baseball). James has written dozens of books on this. His Historical Baseball Abstract is also very good in both editions. He was also hired as a consultant by the Red Sox from about 2002 - 2019. The Red Sox had not won a World Series since 1918, but they won the World Series four times while Bill James was advising them. Bill was also an important mentor to Nate Silver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James
https://www.billjamesonline.com/