Professional athletic careers have huge arbitrary components beyond injury luck: a productive player like Scott Hatteberg, picked off the refuse heap, would have been out of baseball entirely had the A's not recognized that his ability to get on base was valuable.
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Michael LewisEvidence Quote
“you don't think of these careers... having these kind of huge arbitrary components to like that you think of them having arbitrary health components but you don't think of you know this of player going by the wayside because people don't understand they're good”
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