Disappointments and Surprises
I have a four-part article here. As a reader, I hate four-part articles, and, as a writer, I always find that people stop responding as the series goes on. Anyway, this is a natural four-part article, so I don’t know what else to do with it.
What we’re going to be talking about here is rookies who had great rookie seasons but disappointing careers, or (b) had nothing rookie seasons but went on to surprisingly good careers. I’m writing about rookies, but not about rookies as rookies. I’m writing about them as post-rookies.
There are four natural parts to this article:
1) Explaining the method,
2) The Most Disappointing Rookies of all time,
3) The Most Surprising Players of all time, based on their rookie seasons, and
4) What do this tell us about the 2018 rookies?
I have written the first three parts of this article and posted them to appear on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday beginning October 23; God knows whether they will or not, the software behind the scenes here is treacherous. I have not yet written the fourth installment, and don’t know how much time I will have to put into it this week, so can’t say for sure whether it will run on Friday or will not.