Baseball season has begun.
“Umm, yeah,” you may say. “It started two weeks ago when players reported to spring training.” Or when the Super Bowl ended, as MLB Twitter so famously loves to point out. You may have your somewhat arbitrary end point as to when the season officially begins, and I have mine: the day I get my hands on the Baseball Prospectus annual.
For the past three years, I have pored over the Tigers section of the annual, both the essay and player comments, in search of interesting nuggets about how the statistical community views our favorite baseball team.