Ciência, estatísticas ou...?

A, My Name is Alice: Moniker Madness: [Leif Nelson of the University of California is] pretty sure they eliminated all other explanations for the weird link between initials and performance. While it’s also true that, as statisticians know, if you search for a correlation between some outcome (strikeouts) and enough possible explanations, you’ll find one by chance alone. But again, the scientists say this is not the case here. Other explanations, anyone?