There are some 40 in 40s the staff line up to write—Dylan Moore and Luís Torrens were both hot commodities this year—and others that languish on the schedule, unclaimed. Sometimes it’s because the subject in question is a new addition to the 40-man with no big-league track record to analyze, or a trade piece picked up over the off-season no one is particularly attached to—yet. Other times it’s because the player is someone who has been the subject of a 40 in 40 or two, plus someone who has featured heavily in several in-season analytical pieces—and if the reason for those write-ups is that things have been going poorly, it can be an even tougher sell to get people to climb aboard the Hype Bus for a trip around the block.
40 in 40: Justin Dunn
