Congrats to Will
June 16, 2006
An award-winner is in our midst
Long-time friend of Baseball Graphs, Will Carroll, has won an award from SABR for research excellence. The award is for his book The Juice, which is an examination of steroids, HGH and lots of other nasty things that baseball players take.
Will championed Baseball Graphs back in the day when I was still producing graphs in Excel. He even asked me to contribute to his first book Saving the Pitcher. And the feeling is mutual—I read Will’s column when he was sending it out in email format, before he started posting at Baseball Prospectus. In fact, his column was one of the top two or three reasons I decided to subscribe to BPro.
Will used the Internet to craft a new angle in baseball reporting: injuries, the players who get them and the professionals who treat them. He likes to say wild and crazy things, but he also manages to provide a lot of super information on a timely basis. This award for outstanding research is a new notch in his arrow, or feather in his cap, or arrow in his quiver. Something like that.
Whatever it is, it is well-deserved. Congratulations, Will.
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