Since Craig's on vacation this week, we got @zcrizer.bsky.social to join @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social and myself for the latest episode of Five & Dive. We took stock of the award frontrunners as we near the halfway point, and talked a lot of Cubs news. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

It doesn't include this morning's news, but last night I wrote up the David Peterson trade, and the safest way to experience the New York Mets: vicariously, through the misery of others

Still love this song. I keep coming back to the line "And he pitches the ball in the same way to the same place, everytime, like an asshole" Blaseball was good.

probably a good time to repost this/bookmark it for reposting over the next nine months www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

JULY 15 OWNERS PROPOSAL: If you ever want to see your families again,

Many people assume that before currency, everyone used the barter system, but this is false. What actually happened is that people simply enacted an unwritten code of giving gifts and returning favors, backed by social pressure. People still do this today, in the form of hosting playdates

Many people assume that before currency, everyone used the barter system, but this is false. What actually happened is that people simply enacted an unwritten code of giving gifts and returning favors, backed by social pressure. People still do this today, in the form of hosting playdates

This year we're seeing one of the best rookie hitting classes in recent memory, and one of the worst pitching classes. I dug into the numbers a bit to look at why.

Today at @baseballprospectus.com: Last year I introduced the Heim Line, a new measure of batting ineptitude. Here are the leaders (trailers?) so far. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Some are calling this the best episode of Five & Dive yet.

Buster Posey is just going to take it one crisis at a time, both sides played hard, just have to move forward and give every debacle 110%,

this was an interesting line on a thought I've had most of this season. The Rockies don't have the fan trust to do a Full Blow Up rebuild right now despite the fact its the smartest thing to do for sustainable success. In the past, it wouldn't be a question what the Rockies would do, but now?

New episode of Five & Dive for your edutainment purposes. With Craig sunning himself on some Mediterranean beach, @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social and I were joined by old friend @cowhitchurch.bsky.social to talk about our favorite mediocre divisions.

My latest for @baseballprospectus.com is on quite a bit of what's wrong with MLB's proposal to shut high school players out of the draft, institute an international draft, lean on college for player development, and how there is no way they don't eventually try to cut more MiLB teams

The first thing I ever wrote for BP was an 2015 Annual comment about Blake Beavan. But today marks the 10th anniversary of my first article, about how the structure of the game incentivized teams to forfeit, before position-player pitchers were really a thing.

Mavis Beacon's Backrooms

This is what's actually making my kid interested in practicing his math and I don't know whether to laugh or cry

Five terms you'll find in this article @baseballprospectus.com: -a swashbuckler’s sword -launching nukes -summer camp softball tank -the speed of sound -Matsuo Bashō www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

A piece about Max Scherzer, Roger Angell, growing old, and forgetting both the concept of retirement and the fear of death.

A piece about Max Scherzer, Roger Angell, growing old, and forgetting both the concept of retirement and the fear of death.

Sometimes I wonder where the next Roger Angell is. Not like, why isn't there another Roger Angell yet, more like which investment firm are they quietly miserable at

Sometimes I wonder where the next Roger Angell is. Not like, why isn't there another Roger Angell yet, more like which investment firm are they quietly miserable at

For Father's Day I got some nice felt tip pens. It's going to be nice to write stuff down for a while

Whenever I see a business start with AAA I always wish there were a Quad-A version. Where’s the Jeff Manto of portable toilet maintenance

I was born into the wrong era. I think I could have made a killing back in the 70s, when people were writing bestsellers full of lines like “as we chew, we’re already thinking about the next bite”

OK now make Tyler Chatwood pitch to everybody

OK sorry one more. Do you think Tim Raines would like a do-over on this one

One of my favorite tidbits from those Studio card backs is in the 1993 set, where Bagwell, Biggio, and Caminiti all have the line “pet peeve is Casey Candaele.”

Does Terry Mulholland think the prize for winning the Cy Young award is to meet Cy Young

OK, so because we spent the last week getting to know our baseball players far more than we would have liked to, let's cleanse the pallette by getting to know how ballplayers felt back in 1992. First up: Ron Gant's favorite book is Eat to Win: The Sports Nutrition Bible (3.5 stars on goodreads

tfw you get to mention your dads skateboard injury that scarred his cousins so bad they wouldn’t let their kids ride skateboards…and also Jacob Wilson

Can you score more runs just by working longer at bats? In theory, yes! In reality... It's complicated. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

One last evening bump for this one, which is about how epics are oversold, Steinbeck is underrated, and how sometimes you need a baseball team to just be a chill hang.

Kid just texted me from school asking to come home, says he has a "piggyback student" who comes in after lunch and sits in for him for the afternoon classes. What the hell is going on

The game was particularly funny this time, because not only did it kill Craig, it also exposed my cinematic tastes as painfully middlebrow. Just a big ol' haymaker to the pair of us

Bit of a weird one from me today. I suppose I should try to sell it more, but honestly, if "bit of a weird one from me" isn't a selling point to you, I'm probably not coming up with a better one

Today at @baseballprospectus.com I wrote about 1200 words on how teams are expanding the pool of players they can add to their active roster. About half the words were simply a recitation of the Braves' Carlos Carrasco transactions so far this year.

Wrote about how the playoffs are shaping up to be weirder than we've seen in 30 years, framed by a critical scene in @kentremendous.bsky.social's The Good Place: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Started reading Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, and thirty pages in I'm getting the same fatigue I got trying to read The Good Soldier. Unreliable first-person narratives are fine artistically but man it's 2026, I get lied to plenty in my life already

Bit of a weird one from me today. I suppose I should try to sell it more, but honestly, if "bit of a weird one from me" isn't a selling point to you, I'm probably not coming up with a better one

this article is about my favorite baseball team, the New York Knicks

Can't recommend this piece highly enough. A summary of how to analyze pitching using both your eyes and the numbers, written clearly and readably.

The Washington Nationals are ahead of schedule, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

Birds are my favorite animal with ten frames of animation

The Washington Nationals are ahead of schedule, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

I'm glad you're all going to enjoy the soccer, and I apologize that I will not be joining you. I feel like as repayment for my timeline I should spend the next month getting into something truly esoteric and post rabidly about it. Maybe I should start playing old text adventure games

I expected to write this @baseballprospectus.com article about how single game results don't mean anything. I was surprised to discover... That's not actually true. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

It's no longer morning but everything contained within remains true

Been a rough day. Just discovered my phone is too old to download the Subway app. Not sure how I'm coming back from this