The start of December will mark the rolling out of the new
Meet the Sox section. It'll be a gradual process from the start of December to the start of Spring Training, beginning with the players not figured to be moved.
Last year, considering I had to balance writing all 25 roster previews with building the site, I kept the formula relatively simple (overview, scouting report, outlook). Not to mention that the site hadn't launched when I was writing these, so I was mainly talking to myself.
This time around, Vince from
Exile in Wrigleyville will be helping me out with the roster. Along with that, I have however many thousands of words of recaps in
State of the Sox that I should put to use, not to mention a small community here that can make profiling players more comprehensive and entertaining.
Here are some new ideas I have for the 2007 edition:
- Top five/bottom five performances of the year for each player, like I did midseason.
- A "random stats" section, pulling out numbers from various resources to highlight what a particular player did surprisingly well or poorly.
- Projections: Not only from ZiPS or the Bill James Handbook, but a competition amongst ourselves as well.
- More links to stat pages, since Sox Machine loads faster for me than any non-Baseball-Reference.com site.
I'd also like to hear any suggestions on how I can improve MTS this coming season. Whether you have new feature ideas, or rants or raves about last year's model, I'd like to hear it. Either drop a comment below, or
if you're not registered yet,
shoot me an email.
(Though I
always encourage registration.)
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Here's the link again, in case you didn't see it.)