I recently went through the baseball prospect selection process I developed and streamlined it. I’m waiting until USA Today picks their Minor League Player of the Year award before selecting my top 2025 prospects. In the meantime, here are the current reigning top nine baseball prospects from 2024.
Why Do You Collect What You Collect?
Why do you collect what you collect? Is it sustainable for a lifetime? Does your collection enhance your life? These are questions to ask about anything you collect. If you don’t have a good answer for any one of these questions, then you’re not collecting, you’re hoarding.
The All-Topps Era Baseball Mega All-Star Team
I’ve put together a massive spreadsheet of baseball players with some basic statistical analysis. The spreadsheet has four sheets, over 3,500 players, and stats from 1876 through 2024. With it, I quickly put together an all-star team of the greatest players since 1952.
Eighteen Days in Taiwan
Last month, I spent eighteen days with my wife and kids in Taiwan. My mother-in-law had passed away in Taiwan in the spring, and we had to visit to lay her ashes to rest and take care of legal and financial matters. However, we made the best of the trip and made it an opportunity for the kids to appreciate one of their ancestral homelands.
Building Relationships and the Abundance of Life
It’s very tempting to want to do everything by yourself. You have complete control of the entire process, and you reap all the benefits of your hard work. But this is both a narcissistic and selfish way to work. I’m convinced that the key to prosperity is in building relationships and trade with others.
Greatest Hits: Metallica
Twelve songs is a typical music album length. What if we had to condense the entire career of a venerable band like Metallica into a single album? What would that album look like?