Just a few links worth clicking, especially if you can read and listen to a podcast (also available on iTunes!) at the same time...
– How much of the draft is a crap shoot? This comprehensive look at all the NO. 1 OVERALL PICKS should give you a pretty good idea (oh, hello Matt Bush).
– I'll admit that I pay approximately zero attention to college baseball. I'm actually ashamed to admit that I haven't been to a single game at the university that's just two miles from my home. Time, man. It just slips away. But it's pretty interesting how the NCAA has been monkeying around with the baseballs in the last few years. Seems like they might have found a pretty good balance, finally.
– Over at The Hardball Times, Jesse Wolfersberger's got an intriguing look at the future of technology in baseball. I won't try to summarize the piece here -- there's a lot to digest, all of it potentially game-changing -- but I'm particularly intrigued by the ways in which technology could make it really, really, really easy to cheat. Although I'm sure today's baseball people wouldn't even dream of such things...
– This fall, the Hall of Fame will unveil its 2016 Veterans Committee ballot, consisting of "Pre-Integration" candidates. I don't have a particularly strong opinion about any of these guys -- okay, maybe Bill Dahlen and Doc Adams -- but I really enjoyed Adam Darowski's nominations for the ballot. Cooperstown should listen!
– Okay, so this is sorta cheating. But just in case you missed it, yesterday I wrote about the Oldest Living Players for all 30 franchises. I have an excuse for revisiting today, though! When looking at the franchises, I went all the way back. So for the Dodgers, it was the oldest living Brooklyn Dodger (Mike Sandlock). But here are the Oldest Living Players with franchises that have moved: Frank Bolling (Braves), Wally Westlake (Orioles), Irv Noren (Dodgers), Billy Gardner (Twins), Tito Francona (A's), Billy Pierce (Giants), Frank Howard (Rangers), and Mike Stanton (Nationals). By the way, Tito Francona's the Oldest Living (Oakland) Athletic and the Oldest Living Milwaukee Brewer.
One more note about this, though. I believe there was a bit of a glitch in the programming yesterday, and so I omitted Jerry McNertney, the Oldest Living Seattle Pilot. My apologies to Mr. McNertney, and my thanks (again) to Baseball-Reference.com for making all this possible.
