A Better Personality Test
Baseball teams spend enormous resources evaluating physical tools. The mental side of the game gets a fraction of that rigor — and it shows.
Published in Baseball Prospectus
Editor's Note
Baseball is hard. It’s a sport of failure where succeeding 30% of the time means you’re great. It’s also a marathon grind 162 games long. What does that do to a player’s psyche, especially in such a short window of opportunity? Young prospects can’t even order a drink yet!
I interviewed the people behind a new test being administered by NFL teams to see how baseball could potentially benefit. If someone manages to get even a little bit of an edge here, it would be worth millions of dollars.
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