If you are into baseball and its fascinating inner workings as I am (By the way, how about the Nationals?), I would recommend checking out two recent books: “The MVP Machine” by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik, and “Astroball” by Ben Reiter.
Back in what feels like another life, I was what I consider a high-level baseball umpire, working anything from high school to travel to adult baseball games.