Steroids and Game Theory
Steroids, Steroids, Steroids…. Why 50% of Major League Baseball Players must have been on Steroids in the early 2000’s The recent revelation that baseball superstars Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez...
View ArticleBaseball’s performance enhancing surgeries
After the revelation of steroid use by Alex Rodriguez, I wrote about why it made perfect sense to me that the majority of baseball players would take steroids (in the posting — Steroids and Game...
View ArticleReal Options and the Baseball Trade Deadline
In a couple of days, the baseball trade deadline on July 31 will pass. Both local teams here in the San Francisco Bay Area have interesting decisions to make or already have made important trade...
View ArticleThe decline of baseball amidst a changing society
Last month, I watched part of Game 2 of the World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees with a colleague. While watching, it dawned on me that this was the first game of this...
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