ESPN Pushes Their Fantasy Baseball Gurus to the Limit

This should be an exciting year for baseball fans that enjoy soaking up knowledge from television pundits.

With a truly successful year under its belt, the MLB Network has forced its rival, ESPN (namely, “Baseball Tonight”) to be more creative.  And no, we don’t consider new haircuts for John Kruk as “innovative”.

This week, ESPN rolled out a new feature they call “Blind Résumés” – in which the viewers and hosting baseball analysts are challenged to guess a pair of MLB players when their 2009 statistics are compared side-by-side.  Truthfully, it’s a fun little game and designed to make all involved feel like an imbecile.

But ESPN really pushed the limit on Thursday night.

No pictures, no stats.  Nothing.  Certainly a “blind” résumé.

ESPN analysts were speechless.  Well, all except Eric Karabell, who broke down each player’s projected OPS+ and VORS (Value Over Replacement Silhouette) .  Whatever.  I’ll believe anything Eric Karabell says.  The guy rocks a mean pair of spectacles on national television and looks like Michael Bolton from “Office Space”.

Attributes like that are what I’m looking for in a trustworthy baseball analyst.

If he told me to draft Jim Abbott and play him as a 2B, I wouldn’t hesitate for a minute.

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