April 7, 2021
There’s this phenomenon in writing where you have an idea and you start putting together the piece. In the midst of writing it, you may take a random break and pop onto your Twitter feed. Whilst scanning said feed, you may run across an article posted with not only your exact premise, but damn near the same title, too. This is what Nick Pollack and Alex Fast at PitcherList have termed “Getting Sullivan’d” based on outstanding Fangraphs alumnus Jeff Sullivan.
Well, PitcherList got one back on Fangraphs:
I got Sullivan’d… and how! Instead of scrapping it altogether, I talked with Nick and we decided it was still worth posting mine primarily because Eric Dadmun, the PitcherList author of Searching for This Year’s Devin Williams, had a completely different list than I did so why not offer up even more names in hopes of find this year’s middle relief gem. Plus, it rightfully exposes more people to the phenomenon known as “Getting Sullivan’d”… just