Bill James on 60 Minutes

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BASEBALL: Baseball Link Roundup
Published 4/10/2008 by Baseball Crank at Baseball Crank
... But go check out the chart of the teams that recovered the best). *The Indians lock up Fausto Carmona. As a team, you'd rather see Carmona do it again before you ink him to a big deal, but of course the player's leverage and asking price goes way up at that point. Which is why we seem to be seeing more of these kinds of deals after a guy has his first good year; once a player gets established, he's more apt to wait it out and try his hand at the open market. *I haven't had time to watch the whole thing myself, but here's the 60 Minutes segment on Bill ...