And the east coast of Brasil too.

Can someone explain to a non-basketball fan: why didn't the Duke player just hold the ball when it was in-bounded to him, or just dribble around for 10 seconds?

Are you sure that's not a muppet?

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Baseball card of Kevin Brown mid-pitch where his arm looks weirdly twisted.

Here's one!

Don't have an example handy, but the "pitcher in mid-pitch where his arm is so twisted it looks like it's going to be wrenched off" pose.

Loved this essay, particularly your thoughts on Alysa Liu. Did you see this moment? For me it was the highlight of the entire Olympics.
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Aside from Cole, is anyone even on pace for 200 wins?

Greg Bird was supposed to be what I was hoping Nick Johnson would be. Hoping Rice will be the one that pans out.

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Aaron Judge last year had the best offensive season ever by a RH hitter, and now has 2 of the top 5 such seasons. The other three all came between 1908 and 1924. In other words, Judge has had the two best such seasons in the last 100 years.
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Reminds me of the great Greg Golson throw where he ended the game by throwing out Carl Crawford at third.

I would have loved to have seen this for Mattingly, who IIRC had unusual foot placement, with his back foot pointed back at the catcher (similar to Eloy Jimenez but more extreme, as I remember it). Would also be interesting to see how Musial compares to Kwan in terms of narrow stances.

Really cool stuff. Is this all done using Hawkeye-type cameras?

Home and road stats for a baseball player. In this season, he hit 19 home runs at home, and zero on the road.

Now *that's* a home/road split. Can you guess the player? He led the league in home runs in 6 out of 7 years (including this one), missing the lead by one in the other year.
Hint: Baker Bowl.

A long-time favorite; I had such high hopes for him. A poor man's Nick Johnson in multiple ways.

Do you know how common sidearm deliveries were back in that era? Was it more common than now, or was Johnson unusual even at that time?

I liked him too, and he did a good job over the years. But due to the Judge and Cole/Rizzo errors, he managed to largely get off scot-free even though he lost Game 5 by facing three batters and letting all of them reach base.

He had only 8.7 WAR in 1958 after having 11.2 and 11.3 the previous two years, so clearly he was on the decline.

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The original Greg Bird in more ways than one. I was a huge fan of Nick Johnson's ever since his spectacular .345/.525/.548 season in AA in 1999 at age 20. (At age 20, Greg Bird hit .288/.428/.511 in A ball, obviously not quite as good but a similar shape of production.)

Doc Edwards went on to a long career as a coach and manager in the minors and majors, and was the manager for my hometown Rochester Red Wings when I went to my first baseball game.

Congratulations on getting the vote. I've been reading you since the early days of RAB.

I think that's the first time I've seen Lou Reed smile.

Thank you!

I had high hopes for him. I remember him having a lot of movement on his pitches, perhaps similar to David Cone.

Who is the guy telling the story?

Did you know: T. rex lived closer in time to humans than to Stegosaurus. Dinosaurs were around for a *long* time (and still are, as birds).

This was lovely; they did justice to this classic. I also love the blue and gold lighting -- a nice departure from the usual red and green color scheme of the season.

Cody Bellinger's OPS started with a different digit in each of his first six seasons: .9xx, .8xx, 1.0xx, .7xx, .5xx, .6xx. That must be unusual.

Soto had 7.9 bWAR this year.