GM's OFFICE: Categorizing 2022's surprise performances

One of our key principles here at BaseballHQ.com is transparency: we believe in showing our work, our thought processes, and the inputs that we use to reach conclusions. At this time of year, that often means a look back at what we got right and wrong this season.

Years (decades, even!) of experience at this have taught us that we are fallible, in fact that we're always going to be wrong in a whole bunch of different ways. Thankfully, we had a few less variables to consider than in the recent past: we got our second straight 162-game campaign, mostly undisturbed by COVID considerations. But even with the pandemic in the background, we had our old reliable list of "known unknowns" to deal with: questions about the ball, humidors, sticky...

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