If someone listed Clemens, Pettitte, Mussina, Wells and Mays and asked an honest, astute fan which pitcher the Angels would want to face this October, the answer would have been Mays.
It's another of her trademark excavations of family relationships down the generations, selected over a harder-edged investigation of family, origins and escape, Irish author Anne Enright's The Green Road – a brilliantly wide-ranging and piercingly astute novel which may have lost out for its diffuse structure.
Far too easily did Chelsea's midfield players get beyond their markers and Fernando Torres was able to run gleefully on to the astute passes which they fashioned for him between QPR's centre-backs and full-backs, eventually leading to the Spaniard scoring a hat-trick.
Here, sexual display has been made sexless in a conspiracy between a blank-eyed tourist audience and an astute management which knows that the crowd wants sex in the same way that they want slippers from Marks & Spencer's on the Boulevard Haussmann.
Nico Rosberg, meanwhile, is often regarded as the more methodical and technically astute driver which has helped him produce a level of consistency on the track this season to keep him at the top of the championship.
Such ventures will work only if governments make astute decisions about which risks are best handled by the public sector, and which are not.
It's a psychologically astute show in which characters evolve in ways that can be surprising but are always internally consistent.
"I can't believe she did a cartwheel," Lily Hayes's mother laments almost halfway through Jennifer DuBois's psychologically astute second novel, which takes not only its title but its controlling metaphor from this gymnastic feat.
Josh Arcoleo is a prizewinning saxophonist from the Royal Academy of Music's jazz stable, and a debut on the astute Edition label (which has introduced, among others, young Norwegian sax firebrand Marius Neset) is no accident.
