When looking at the article entitled "Josh Johnson is putting up some historic numbers of his own," the first thing that I decided to to in order to verify its legitimacy was to analyze the URL. Because the URL made sense and it is not someone's personal page, so far so good.
The next step in this process involved researching the writers of this blog and determining how often it is updated. The article is run by MC3 Sports Media, which also runs other similar website for other sports. The website is updated daily with various baseball articles pertaining to players, teams, coaches and management issues. The article is written by an ex-scout of 34 years, Blake Kearny, which gives immediate impressive credentials. There are links located throughout the blog that can help a reader visualize players stats that really help the overall content of the article, as well as links to other related articles posted recently, on the right of the page.
Currently, 44 other sites link to this website, which ranks 1,180,537 in the world in traffic. The links that send users to this website all have generally favorable opinions of this website, which is understandable considering that many of their writers are former Major League scouts. Who is better at analyzing baseball players for a website than those who do it for Major League clubs?
Looking back at all this, I have to say that I have a very favorable impression of this website. The writers are experienced professionals, other reputable sites reference this website and it is updated daily. These are very positive signs that the website is a trustworthy source of information. I will use this website, although generally obscure, to potentially influence my own views of various subjects pertaining to baseball.
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