As 2022 comes to a close, I wanted to thank you all for reading Undrafted! If you’ve enjoyed anything you’ve read here this year, please consider sharing with a friend. For guidance, I’ve included some of my personal faves below. Also, always feel free to comment, either officially or just by responding to the emails you get in your inbox. And, most of all, have a happy 2023!
January
This is from that brief, forgotten period earlier this year when Tom Brady was “retired.” I bet he wishes he could go back to that… I’m actually planning to write something about Brady’s 2022 season next month, but I still stand by everything I wrote in January.
February
I wrote a lot about the Brian Flores lawsuit, but this was my favorite because it was about possible solutions, both good and bad.
March
James and I were super proud of the whole March Stories podcast series, so I’m including this first one, on the 2003 Syracuse team with Carmelo.
April
This was sort of a follow-up on the Flores lawsuit, but really it was about the annoying and misguided pursuit of some pure meritocracy. Wanting to hire “the best person for the job” is boss talk!
May
I really stand by this one. The way bullpens are getting used by baseball teams now is a real crisis for the sport — it even affected the World Series — and it’s one Karl Marx would have definitely seen coming…
June
This was a tough one to write, largely because the Uvalde shooting was such a tragic subject to write about on a sports blog. But it was a good opportunity to articulate something that I think is important: the difference between liberals and leftists.
July
LeBron James is obviously not a billionaire, please do not fall for that bullshit.
August
As a Yankee fan, I was paying especially close attention to Aaron Judge’s miraculous season, and so I was early to notice the “Real Record” discourse. It only got worse as he got closer to 62…
September
Every baseball season, I want to shout this from the rooftops: Steroids do not do what people say they do! The panic about them is really a mirror of the drug war.
October
This was part of Baseball Week, which was, believe it or not, a week where I wrote only about baseball. And this piece was another one debunking a stupid piece of baseball’s conventional wisdom.
November
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again… I think this piece turned out better the second time.
December
A look at the relative power of two key NFL figures…