The first week of Summer Camp was eventful, with some players opting out, others continuing to voice concerns, and huge delays in COVID-19 testing making some people wonder if baseball could continue safely.
Well, so far things haven’t fallen completely off the rails, so let’s proceed with the notion that baseball is still going to happen — for now — and jump right on into news.
- In “do computers know too much” news, Joshua Silver has a story about how a neural network was trained with nine years of baseball outcomes to attempt to predict plate outcomes.