Rays Depth Chart Fangraphs

37 The reward is no longer a sticker but the internal satisfaction derived from seeing a visually unbroken chain of success, which reinforces a positive self-identity—"I am the kind of person who exercises daily. It sits there on the page, or on the screen, nestled beside a glossy, idealized photograph of an object. Check your tire pressures regularly, at least once a month, when the tires are cold. Things like the length of a bar, the position of a point, the angle of a slice, the intensity of a color, or the size of a circle are not arbitrary aesthetic choices. I began with a disdain for what I saw as a restrictive and uncreative tool. His concept of "sparklines"—small, intense, word-sized graphics that can be embedded directly into a line of text—was a mind-bending idea that challenged the very notion of a chart as a large, separate illustration.