Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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NAPOLEON (returning from the dead after 200 years): You can prevent soldiers from getting WHAT????????????????
Yeah, you gotta be consistent with execution on your son in order to have good tunnels, I buy that. Glad you made this, I think it's a big hole publicly.
(One idea is to split the execution between tunnels and locations.)
Nice! I have a co-worker who runs a team and non-profit for FIRST in Rochester, NY.
Detmers is down to 107 from 115. Detmers is only down to 107 from 115!
Nolan Ryan's 19-strikeout, 10-walk, 13-inning outing against the Red Sox from June 14th, 1974. (source: B-Ref, Stathead)
Dude, what?
Mike Trout 40/40 watch: 7💣/3🥷
Last two pitchers to allow 13 baserunners but only one run scored:
Kyle Bradish tonight for the Orioles against the Royals
Ubaldo Jiménez in 2016 for the Orioles against the Royals
Otto Lopez train keeps rolling. We're ignoring the BABIP right now and just focusing on him already establishing a new career high MaxEV this year
Gotcha. So it's not about final location, just mid-flight location relative to the pitcher's whole arsenal? Excellent!
9 hits and walks including a HR in 3 innings for Bradish and somehow only one run given up. Eeesh.
MLB juiced the balls from 1998-2001 to up attendance after the strike and then blamed it on the players for taking steroids
I have a loose body. Not good for me, either.
My guess was platoon usage somehow. I'm giving myself non-zero credit ;)
And a meme! Really maxing out his Q rating per PA.
Would not surprise me. Or "yeah, we worry about this, but don't actually DO anything about it."
I'm sure they don't have all the answers or even very many. But knowing the assumptions they are making currently would even be interesting.
I'd be curious to read about how pitchers, pitch labs and/or teams approach the injury risks to developing new pitches. Does it vary by pitch type? Does it vary by how different the pitch is? Does What the pitcher currently throws? Number of new pitches?
What amount mechanical changes?
How are you doing that last bullet?!?!
"An Execution Grade based on locations + tunnel metrics specific to a pitcher to grade how well he’s using his stuff"
Hallelujah!
Apparently I already have the first book marked as Want to Read, so I'll grab it next
The same guy (Ray Porter) also narrates the audiobooks for the Bobiverse, which is a similarly fun space sci-fi series if you enjoyed PHM.
Hadn't heard of that, thanks!
You could create a fun daily game out of showing stat lines and guessing the year they're from.
Sometimes I just gawk at old baseball stats and marvel that people think the game has never changed. I'm sure there's a billion examples you could come up with, but right now I'm at "In 1913, Walter Johnson had a 1.14 ERA in 346 IP .. and also a 6.3 K/9."
Project Hail Mary has an excellent audio book narrator, would recommend.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
Emmanuel Rodriguez is swinging now at everything, which *could* be a good thing, but if it's at all related to his increased fly ball rate, it's definitely a good thing.
