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...whose real name is Phanom Yeeram, grew up in Thailand's rural northeast, a region most notable for its poverty and, in the early 1980s, the occasional mortar round fired across the Cambodian border by the Khmer Rouge. "Some days we'd be sitting down to dinner and the mortars would explode in the village, blowing out our windows and doors," Jaa says. He escaped these grim realities by viewing the films of Chan and Lee on outdoor screens at temple fairs. "It was powerful for me to watch," he says. "What they did was so beautiful, so heroic...
Consider, for example, junior infielder Zak Farkes. Farkes was taken in the 39th round by the Boston Red Sox as a draft eligible sophomore last June, after a season in which he batted .342 with a .425 OBP and a .691 slugging percentage in 152 at-bats...
Compare those numbers to those of Landon Powell, a catcher from South Carolina that was selected in the first round of the same draft by the most famous figure of stats-based scouting, Oakland GM Billy Beane. Powell batted .330-.427-.611 in 270 at-bats. If you make the overly simplifying assumption that OPS is an indicator of success, Farkes’ numbers are better. But they are also more difficult to trust...
...school” Reds selected him in the second round, paid him $725,000 and sent him to rookie ball. Even today—even for teams like DePodesta’s Dodgers and Epstein’s Red Sox—statistics are only a tool. What scouts see still matters a lot more than Moneyball fanatics realize. The scouts are still the gatekeepers...
Junior D.J. Hynes once again led the Crimson, shooting 77-77-77-231, but his effort was only enough to tie him for 35th place. Captain Chris Wu performed better in his first round, recording a 76, but a 79 and a 78 set him back to 44th place...