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This is a digital version of The Windup newsletter. Sign up here to receive this content directly in your inbox every morning. The sugar rush of the trade deadline (and a no-hitter!) kept us glued to our computers and TVs, chanting and howling for nearly 48 hours straight. Welcome to the sugar-crash portion of the baseball season. I’m Levi Weaver, here with Ken Rosenthal — welcome to The Windup! When Max Scherzer took the podium in Texas on Tuesday afternoon, he told the same story that K...

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Alan You can flag a comment by clicking its flag icon. Website admin will know that you reported it. Admins may or may not choose to remove the comment or block the author. And please dont worry, your report will be anonymous. Big fan of (fellow?) poker-playing statistician fantasy sports writers! Quick question: Don’t fantasy players have to be a bit cautious about using z-scores as a shorthand for value across categories? Just for a hypothetical example, suppose 90 percent of draftable pit...