Going to bump this one more time because bluesky was being weird yesterday, and because like most of my dumb little projects, I put a ton of work into it. Also, I believe in it at a fundamental level. Tiers of shame!
Wake me when they make a city connect jersey that's just the windbreaker pitchers wore when running the bases in the early 1990s
Wake me when they make a city connect jersey that's just the windbreaker pitchers wore when running the bases in the early 1990s
Yeah, that's fair. I didn't really touch on too much situational stuff, like making the third out at third base, but it definitely fits in between "test the defense" and "there is no reason to test the defense"
Today for @baseballprospectus.com I conducted some vital research, creating a taxonomy of TOOTBLANs. It's time for us to properly categorize the baserunning error, so we can both count them, and shame them, properly.
Today for @baseballprospectus.com I conducted some vital research, creating a taxonomy of TOOTBLANs. It's time for us to properly categorize the baserunning error, so we can both count them, and shame them, properly.
Maybe I should sign up so there can be two of them
A plot showing total velocity added per month. Colored lines represent individual seasons, 2008, 2013, 2019, and 2025. Pitchers in 2008 added about 0.6 mph by the season end. In 2025, that number was closer to 0.3 mph.
Pitchers aren't adding velocity mid-season like they used to. Finding out why is as difficult as being sure it's happening at all.
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say the line, bart
Today from me at BP:
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say the line, bart
Today from me at BP:
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Sixteen, fifteen doubles and one triple to the gap
In two at-bats Josh Naylor has multiplied his 2026 wRC+ by -7
Boy oh boy did Mike Burrows groove that one
Julio just hit a ground-ball double on what I can only describe as a table tennis smash swing
Nah that dude sucks
Finally finished reading Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities on the rise of nationalism, ready to write that piece about the WBC now
Vercingetorix deserves a big-budget historical epic and it's a damn shame the only movie they ever made about him was Druids (2001)
Independently of each other, a couple friends asked me if Cole Young was good. I decided to dig into it, and came away with a question of my own: Which Cole Young?
Creating a video podcast, but instead of video of myself, it's just a loop of the ball ricocheting off outfielders' heads into the stands for home runs
I regret to inform you the #MLB strike strike zone is at it again. It's taller and more narrow than ever. This will necessarily lead to more "three true outcome" results.
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Credit to Weiss, this isn't easy to pull off. You have to push forward, then down, then down and forward, and heavy attack, that's not an easy chain
Wrote about Munetaka Murakami, who so far is proving all the haters right, congratulations to all the haters, except he’s still good regardless
Wrote about Munetaka Murakami, who so far is proving all the haters right, congratulations to all the haters, except he’s still good regardless
So should I let my overgrown yard go one more day or
When traveling at 95% of the speed of light, it's actually 3.2 shining moments
Austin Hays may have just blinked too hard, we'll find out more from the trainers as the game continues
Writing about Murakami, making sure he doesn't do something unseemly to mess up my narrative
When he's waiting for the pitch, Chase Meidroth blinks like a man who once hurt himself blinking
the only pen you need, unless you think you're too good for it
why would there need to be discourse
Just once I want one of these guys to say "Paul Waner" just to fuck with people