Bio: I believe I should be the next Baseball Prospectus Idol because the baseball world needs a different voice and a fresh perspective. Seemingly everywhere you look there’s a new stats-induced column or rant about the latest million-dollar Yankee signing. As BP Idol, I will bring something unique to each column and give readers a glimpse inside the locker room and out on the field. As a young female, I have had the opportunity to cover 12 different teams in various amounts and had articles featured in the American League Championship Series and World Series programs. Baseball may be a tradition-rich venture, but the call for a new voice is long overdue. If the BP judges put me through to the second round, I have no doubt your readers will agree. Think of me as your “Rookie in Relief” : young, energetic and always ready to step up and take the ball.
Entry: Rays Relish First Taste of October
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And to echo the others what have posted so far, I go other sites for beat writing, and come to BP.com for baseball analysis.
Variety and uniqueness are good things only if they are interesting. Many readers may well have found this article of Brittany's interesting, but obviously many of us didn't. Baseball is many different things to many different people.
Allow me to point to one very female and very original voice whose hilarious blogs had me enraptured a couple of years ago, but seems to have retired now for motherhood: Batgirl (http://www.bat-girl.com/). I wonder if BP could lure her out of retirement?
Ghiroli, Brittany -- 8. It's almost unfair to be able to turn in this article in this format. No other contestant had this kind of access (though I will say I'm disappointed that no one tried to be a reporter or even called a team that I can tell.) She's very solid with the writing, really captures the flavor of such a dramatic moment without going all flowery and overdramatic, and gets great quotes, which is tough in the situation. I worry a bit that some of the heavier stats will trip her up, but I'm curious to see how she deals with it.
Then again, some of the other contestants also run blogs and I guess they could have used their connections to secure an interview.
My god, you never cease to embarrass yourself.
In a week, she'll have written an article to BP's specifications, and comments on the content of her article will be entirely to the point.
WTF?
I mean this article is six months old and you're giving me the impression she's passing it around like a resume? I truly and sincerely hope that is not what _she_ thinks because I think she's a good writer and I am eager to see what she can do for this site.
remember, the initial submission could be anything and was just intended to bring us the best ten candidates.
Which sets her up nicely for the first week's assignment on a BP-centric, sabermetric, stat-based topic of her choosing. Moreso than any other contestant, she has a lot riding on this first assignment.
I don't think next week will be hard for her at all though. She has an entertaining writing style and, as a college graduate, should be able to research and then convey the meaning of a BP concept or statistic. It's relatively easy to define a concept, but harder to write about it in a fashion that appeals to readers including those new to BP. Judging by her previous writing, I think she can do that.
Yeah, and post game write ups are hard to find.
If you and I both understand what OPS is and have to explain it someone else, invariably, one of us will do a better job than the other.
This is not the creation of a new metric to track careers of minor league left fielders, who converted to third base, and subsequently can now hit sliders 50 points higher than previously.