So excited for Opening Day tomorrow. That's right: the day when finally, Savant's search page stops defaulting to 2026 Spring Training numbers

One of my favorite articles of the year at @baseballprospectus.com (on my tenth anniversary of my first article at the site!): We ran 100,000 simulations of the 2026 season using PECOTA. Here are some of the most fun.

Just about ready to host our annual last-minute "Who would have dinner with Jesus, Muhammad, and Dave Chapelle" fantasy draft. I'm picking second this year, feel pretty good

Guy who was going to be Cub until my youngest kid was old enough to drive, still going to be a Cub until my youngest kid is old enough to drive

One more bump for our annual staff bold prediction post, which as always I took extremely seriously

If outfielders get to read positioning cards for every batter when they take the field, I should get to have index cards supplied to me with full names, vocations and hobbies when I get invited to a house party

The baseball season is almost here, so it might be a good time to recalibrate your feed. @reneedechert.com has some starter packs pinned, so check those out. You can also find packs for Baseball Prospectus writers here:

Here's a Mariners starter pack for people who still need more baseball accounts to follow. Doctors still recommend you read at least three things about Mitch Garver every day, after all

The masses yearn for Kremer Content and I am the only writer courageous enough to answer the call

The baseball season is almost here, so it might be a good time to recalibrate your feed. @reneedechert.com has some starter packs pinned, so check those out. You can also find packs for Baseball Prospectus writers here:

Ben is correct and he is correct for saying it

I'm excited for Opening Day, because it means the return of Jake Mangum's incredibly fun (although very limited) offensive game. Today @baseballprospectus.com, a full taxonomy of the ways he tortures opposing infields. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Excited to announce that Lindsay will be joining Box Score Banter next week. Give her a follow!

For years the utterly replaceable, never replaced Dean Kremer has symbolized the Orioles’ approach to starting pitching. Now that he’s been demoted, has anything changed?

Today at @baseballprospectus.com, the staff banded together to make their bold predictions. Some are serious, some are far-fetched, and some are maybe a little facetious.

My overly specific prediction for 2026: On Wednesday, April 15, Bryce Harper breaks his bat on a Cade Horton pitch, and a fountain of raw milk erupts from the shattered barrel into the night sky

Just make it a goddam speech bubble, you cowards

I wonder if fringe major leaguers have nightmares where they get cut but someone forgets to tell them so they show up the next day and everyone’s acting super weird

Went to the dump the other day. There was a cybertruck in front of me and for one second I thought they were dropping it off

Pretty sure my phone is too old for the MLB app to update? Which is cool because I get to keep the old scoreboard, and less cool because the app will forever shout at me to update even though it also won’t let me

Something comforting in knowing that in 2026, people are still just tossing Nintendo Wiis in the street to be taken by the earth

We're officially one step away from Heraclitusmaxxing

"Kirk Nieuwenhuis!" the man blurted, confusing his assailant for a brief but crucial moment

I think back fondly to when I was younger, when I would feel like writing and so I would find a coffee shop or library, some suitable backdrop to sit and steep and enjoy the feeling of writing wash over me, the bliss of receptiveness to the world, all without having to actually write anything

Beyond thrilled that my first piece @baseballprospectus.com officially went live yesterday afternoon! You'll be able to read my work at BP all season long, focusing on SPs. But before my pitching journey begins, I wrote a requiem for Rockies bats. www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/arti...

Optioned my kid to Triple-A this morning. Was disappointed but he took it well. Good kid. Can’t imagine it’ll be long before he forces his way back into the household

For your edification and enjoyment: a consideration of the font choices of 1990s Topps cards.

For your edification and enjoyment: a consideration of the font choices of 1990s Topps cards.

Once you get to this point in March all the spring training walk-up songs should be JRPG town music

Every discussion about bluesky is like “I could hang out in this smaller room with my friends, but over there is a bigger room filled with thousands of the worst people in the world having a bad faith competition”

Today at @baseballprospectus.com: Elly's healthy again (.999 OPS this spring), but Hunter's hurt again, and they're not spending again

One of my least favorite feelings is when everyone else likes something and I don't. I'm a relativist, so my reaction is never "everyone else is wrong and should feel bad for feeling that way." but when I explore why I don't, people immediately take it that way. It's a recipe for failure

I struggled a lot with this one, and with the WBC in general, because a lot of people were able to enjoy it very much, and I don't want to take that away from them. Teams with country names on them are also inherently political creations. I tried to thread that needle; you can decide if I succeeded.

Venezuela has won the World Baseball Classic. I recapped the game, which was wonderful, and the oily sheen on top of the game, which was frustratingly inseparable.

Venezuela has won the World Baseball Classic. I recapped the game, which was wonderful, and the oily sheen on top of the game, which was frustratingly inseparable.

My son put out a leprechaun trap tonight (he's not very punctual) so now I have to figure out what to put in there. Think I'm going to go with a 1987 Topps Jeffrey Leonard

Programming note: It appears that tomorrow I will not be sticking to sports. As the kids say, "fairly warned be ye"

OK now bury a slider, for narrative cohesion

Roman Anthony looks like he should be an ensemble cast member in an early-80s TV dramedy

A word for the volume level where you can still hear the crowd react but the broadcasters become a low guttural rumbling

I don’t know if I can be more eloquent than this but after careful thought, I just kind of think nationalism sucks

In an incredible bit of attention to detail, each snack ferry comes woefully understaffed

a reminder if you're looking for some context on the history and nature of the relationship between the US, Venezuela, and baseball, I made this first piece of a series on the subject completely free to read

I know you all love the WBC and that’s fine, but for me it’s utterly exhausting. Give me an afternoon Tigers-Royals game where it’s 8-1 in the fourth and Jason Benetti is idly wondering which players have seen Incendies

ST PETER, LOOKING UP FROM HIS GIANT BOOK: so would you say you had a positive WPA or a negative WPA

A bit of a weird one from me today. Exploring why MLB can't just be more like the WBC -- beyond the fact that it would kill us -- and the struggle to save fandom from its natural tendency toward hindsight and oversimplification.

A fantastic and important read.

You can tell I was trying to shake the Brautigan out of my head as I wrote this, but overall I was pretty happy with it.

Last year I watched three home games for all 30 teams. I wrote up my observations at @baseballprospectus.com over the offseason. Here's what I learned.

(making a single dumb mistake in a 1900-word article, drawing all attention away from the thesis) at least... at least I made the commenters happy