Jayson Stark

Jayson Stark is the 2019 winner of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award for which he was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jayson has covered baseball for more than 30 years. He spent 17 of those years at ESPN and ESPN.com, and, since 2018, has chronicled baseball at The Athletic and MLB Network. He is the author of three books on baseball, has won an Emmy for his work on "Baseball Tonight," has been inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame and is a two-time winner of the Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year award. In 2017, Topps issued an actual Jayson Stark baseball card. More Stories

Biography:  https://theathletic.com/author/jayson-stark/

71%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

80%

Examples:

  • Good luck Dodging this team Isn't it reassuring, in these turbulent times, to know that all it takes is a mere $1.1 billion to turn your fun little baseball squad into the talk of two continents?

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • What about the wheel? What about the microwave? What about the iPhone?

Deceptions

30%

Examples:

  • Welcome to spring training, one of the great inventions in history.

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Spring Training in the Cactus League: Preparing for America's National Pastime

Spring Training in the Cactus League: Preparing for America's National Pastime

Broke On: Monday, 19 February 2024 Spring training is a time for Major League Baseball teams to prepare for the upcoming season. The Cactus League, located in Arizona, drew nearly 1.6 million fans in the previous year (in 2019). This year's spring training runs from February 22 to March 26 and will feature fifteen Major League Baseball teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox.