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Ken Rosenthal's top 10 nearest neighbors are almost entirely fellow journalists — a tight, same-kind cluster with scores bunched between 0.96 and 0.93, leaving no single neighbor far ahead of the rest.
The shape is flat: Jayson Stark (0.96), Jeff Passan (0.96), and Buster Olney (0.96) sit at the top, separated by less than a hundredth of a point, with Jon Morosi (0.95) and Bob Nightengale (0.94) close behind. All five are journalists by subcategory, as are Peter Gammons (0.94) and Tim Kurkjian (0.94). That makes seven of the top 10 journalists. The two non-journalist exceptions are Baseball Reference (0.95), a Sports brand, and MLB Trade Rumors (0.94), a Website — both baseball-specific properties whose audiences evidently track closely with the beat-reporter crowd. The tenth neighbor, Matthew Berry (0.93), is the lone Professionals subcategory entry and the only one whose primary association is fantasy sports rather than news coverage.
The absence of any non-baseball journalists in the top 10 is notable: every journalist neighbor covers baseball, and the two non-journalist neighbors are baseball data and transaction resources. This is a tightly sport-specific, beat-press audience with no meaningful cross-sport or cross-media dilution visible at this range.
