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117        <p class="meta">William&nbsp;Morrow &middot; 2020</p>
118        <p>Bad calls, strange moves, and what they say about the rest of us. Behavioural science pointed at baseball's worst decisions, and at why smart people keep making them.</p>
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124        <p class="meta">William&nbsp;Morrow &middot; 2017</p>
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146I'm a Senior Baseball Writer at The&nbsp;Athletic, which I joined in January 2020 after thirteen and a half years at ESPN. Before that I spent four years with the Toronto&nbsp;Blue&nbsp;Jays, most of it as Special Assistant to the General Manager.</p>
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