By contrast, all-natural salts--like the pink lava salt chef Walter Manzke throws on raw tuna at Bouchee , a Carmel, Calif. restaurant--pack a mineral-rich wallop, unadulterated by iodine or anticaking ingredients with unpleasant names like sodium ferrocyanide.
We sought to account for the variations of baseball's different eras with the tried and true tool of standard deviation, which allowed us to look past raw win totals to measure the degree to which a team stood above the pack in a given season.