On Friday, The Atlantic published online “Chasing the ‘Holy Grail’ of Baseball Performance” about the research being done to quantify the value and impact of team chemistry. If you haven’t read the article already, then you missed a few things:
1) it repeats the story of how Dusty Baker invented the high five, which as commenter InternationalOrange points out in Dusty Baker’s birthday post would’ve been nice to have actually included in the body of Dusty Baker’s birthday post, 2) the writer interviewed Grant Brisbee (famously of this very website) and quotes him more than once, specifically about how 3) the 2012 playoff run had nothing to do with Hunter Pence’s fiery speech when they were on the verge of elimination in Cincinnati.