Spencer Torkelson celebrated becoming the No. 1 pick in the 2020 MLB draft with friends, family and a food truck on Wednesday, June 10, 2020, in northern California. Detroit Free Press
My first experience with the baseball term “eyewash” came six years ago, halfway through spring training in 2014, when I asked Ian Kinsler about his feelings on analytics.
Eager to learn as a young baseball reporter, I asked him what exactly “eyewash” meant. In so many words, he described it as a bikini bathing suit.
Another way of looking at it: It makes something look better than it really is.