Welcome to the New Year, friends!
I’ve got some exciting changes on the path ahead in my non-baseball life. On the baseball side, keep your eyes open for a new website from me in the near future. I’m working out the final kinks in search of a way to share my work with more people in 2022, from columns to podcasts.
For now, let’s share some New Year’s resolutions, as we step into another week without baseball.
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This column presents 5 Thoughts to get started in 2022, and is nothing more than one person’s New Year's Resolutions Suggestions for the Minnesota Twins.
5 - Be as self critical as you need to be.
The "plexiglass" effect is a concept I believe I first heard about from Bill James, often held up as the front man for the sabermetrics movement. As I understand it, the Plexiglass Principle basically states that a team that improves one year will decline the following year. The inverse is also true. An…