What I want: to have a basic familiarity with each baseball team that matches the familiarity I once had with cars. In the latter case, I built up my knowledge studying mostly a single source, which was the annual cars issue from Consumer Reports. For baseball teams, the problem I face is that there is more information and so many potential sources that I have struggled to naturally fall into a good strategy. For cars, I absorbed the knowledge more or less without an explicit method; simply by having fun, I became an expert (at least in relative terms). Can I do the same for baseball?

• Think the best way to do this is to get comfortable with each team as I would with countries: by reading some history about each.
• Source for now: Baseball Almanac
• History of Baltimore Orioles
• History of Chicago Cubs

Notes from Effectively Wild, Ep. 1458 (18 Nov 2019)

• Sinister right-handers- bat left-handed but throw right-handed?

• Are more likely to have a career batting average (BA) of .299 or higher compared to players with other combinations of batting and throwing handedness.

• Power of the gray area in enforcing rules

• Government has the money and authority to enforce speed limits unconditionally along every stretch of road by installing cameras. Why hasn’t it implemented this?
• Potentially, it is because as a society, we are uncomfortable with the idea of technology eliminating a certain gray area in the enforcement of more minor rules. We don’t want to impose a fine or penalty for every instance of a car driving two miles per hour over the speed limit. Perhaps the extent to which we enforce a law is proportional to the perceived severity of the consequences of violating it.