In lieu of actual reporting or projecting based on, uh, offseason signings and whatnot, think tank website FiveThirtyEight teamed up with baseball simulator Out of the Park (OOTP) to project the performance of Manny Machado and Bryce Harper on any one of the handful of their rumored free agent destinations.
Read the piece for the full skinny, because it’s cool and sports geeky and jumping Jordan on a pogo stick it’s goddang crickets out there on the Hot Stove. But, some enticing highlights.
OOTP’s artificial intelligence sees an 80% chance of the White Sox signing Machado (San Diego, chortle, apparently has a 20% chance according to HAL 9000)!