Some of you may remember an article about the Blue Jays' Consultant (Baseball Operations) Keith Law that ran in the Toronto Star back in September. It was an odd little piece, because the title and splash-page photo featured Keith, but the story itself was just as much about Ricciardi and the whole new face of operations at Skydome. Nevertheless, the references to Law as "Rain Man" and the inferences that he was basically a mad statgeek directing Ricciardi's moves with a laptop from a tiny room were, to say the least, misleading. (Remarkably enough, it wasn't written by our friend Griff, but by Geoff Baker.)
A briefer but better profile of Law, penned by the underrated Mike Ulmer, appears in today's Toronto Sun. If you read the Star piece, you should read this one too, because the author doesn't have an agenda and paints a better picture of a good guy. Ulmer also seems interested in actually sharing with his readers some of the myth-debunking knowledge that Keith and his fellow sabrmetricians bring to the table. It's worth a read.
https://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20021220092046999