About the Author
Jonah Keri is a sports and stock market writer / journalist. His sports writing has appeared at ESPN.com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Sports, FanGraphs, SI.com, Salon, Slate, Playboy, Penthouse, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, and many other publications. Since 1999, Jonah has covered the stock market for Investor’s Business Daily and IBD’s Web site, investors.com.
In addition to writing The Extra 2%, Jonah is also the editor and co-author of Baseball Between the Numbers, and has contributed to many other books.
The Jonah Keri Podcast, which debuted in 2010, has quickly become one of the Web’s most popular sports podcasts. Guests have included Tim Raines, Bert Blyleven, Rob Neyer, Dan Shulman, Daryl Morey, Joe Posnanski, and many other luminaries. You can download episodes at JonahKeri.com, and on iTunes.
Read Jonah’s blog, JonahKeri.com, and follow him on Twitter @jonahkeri.
Favorite articles:
Does Baseball Need Umpires? parts 1 and 2 at Wall Street Journal
A Not-So-Brief History of Pitching Injuries at JonahKeri.com
Albert Pujols, Underappreciated Superstar at ESPN.com
18 Greatest Jewish Baseball Players at Salon.com
An historical perspective on Roger Clemens at New York Magazine
Farewell to the Expos
Archives of Jonah’s writing:
ESPN.com: baseball, basketball, hockey, ultramarathons, cricket
FanGraphs: lots of baseball
Baseball Prospectus: lots more baseball
New York Sun: mostly college basketball
YES Network: baseball including LABR experts fantasy league
I’m probably going to buy the book and recommend it around my fantasy league. Or maybe I’ll just hold onto it if it’s that informative.
Anyways, the question I have stems from Jimmy Rollins’ 2010 season…injury prone, got about half as many at-bats. Checked bloomberg projections and he’s expected to roughly double his numbers minus a little. Rough assumption here that he gets about as many 2011 ab’s as Jeter had 2010 ab’s (both early in order on high scoring teams).
Anyways, is the ‘loss’ of production due to risk of injury or decline? Both possibly but the numbers seem too high for that. The point is not about what jRoll hits this year, it’s about the chaos of an injury’s effect on a player’s production. Does your book discuss that?
Book doesn’t discuss philosophical injury questions like those per se, but it does get into (a little bit) the Rays’ focus on continuity of instruction, and how that can help keep players (especially pitchers) healthy and effective.
I’m not the biggest Rollins fan in fantasy this year. His MVP season was always an outlier, and the offense as a whole should be diminished with Werth gone and Utley iffy.
Jonah,
I really enjoyed “The Extra 2%.” I couldn’t help but chuckle at the irony of finishing your book and seeing this story about the local “professional” team here in Pittsburgh:
http://www.wtae.com/sports/27910677/detail.html
Vince would be proud!
Congratulations on your excellent work,
Rich
Any idea of when the paperback will be released?
I’m listening to the audio version of the book as we speak. While I’m enjoying the content, the book company may want to think about hiring someone who can correctly pronounce obscure names like “Tom Glavine” and “Lou Pinella” correctly for your next one.
Come for the insight, stay for the comedy!