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Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for The Ringer. He also hosts the Effectively Wild podcast for FanGraphs and regularly appears on MLB Network. He is a former staff writer for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland, a former editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, and the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team. His next book, The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players, comes out in June 2019. He lives in New York City. ...more

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	The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh (Goodreads Author), Sam Miller 4.24 avg rating — 5,951 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Ben Lindbergh (Goodreads Author), Travis Sawchik (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 3,003 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs In Sports History by Mike Pesca, Shira Springer (Narrator), Peter Thomas Fornatale (Narrator) 3.42 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grantland Quarterly 8 by Bill Simmons (Editor), Dan Fierman (Editor), Bryan Curtis 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grantland: Talk Nerdy To Me by Bill Simmons, Bill Barnwell (Goodreads Author), Kirk Goldsberry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of Baseball Prospectus: 1996-2011 by Baseball Prospectus, Ben Lindbergh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Miller (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call-Up 2012 (CUSTOM): The Essential Guide to the Rest of the 2012 Baseball Season by Baseball Prospectus (Editor), Ben Lindbergh (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Gonsalves, who’s in there not because he’s the pitcher most likely to get an out, but because Conroy’s the closer, and the closer’s the closer because he’s the closer, bro.”
― Ben Lindbergh, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

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“Its premise, based on the work of political scientists, was that the worst thing a president can do to advance his positions is to state them; as soon as he does, a huge number of people will position themselves in opposition, and they will lose the ability to be swayed by any contradictory evidence. That”
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“They exist for history, and we take joy from them because we accept that they are superior at an arbitrary assortment of skills that we have collectively decided have value. Rather,”
― Ben Lindbergh, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

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