Finally ready to explain the fundies recession: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/time-to-ad...

Munetaka Murakami will be posted on Friday I will be posting on Friday We're not that different, really

Every year I say I am gonna spend less time mucking around with the order of guys outside of the top ten and then I never do. Doesn’t help when you have a glut of good but samey prospects like the Brewers. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

Jokes aside (and it is *extremely* difficult to put jokes aside), DePodesta's involvement with the DeShaun Watson trade is more gross than incompetent, and it's very incompetent. Sorry to the folks in Denver, you've already been through too much.

The Rockies have officially evolved into a new form of Rockies

Look, Rockies, I know you might have some doubts, but... do it. Do it. Do it for me

OK, look. Some folks think I write for a "salary." That I do it to "feed my children." But that's a lie. The real reason I write is for you. Why else would I look at pictures of knee surgery, or compare line items on the Cincinnati Reds' budget, or think about Leody Taveras at all? It's FOR YOU.

We have the "finalists" for MVP, CY, ROY, and MOY, will get the winners next week. Let's break the suspense with the best players during the who got short shrift, or not shrift at all, in the 2025 @baseballprospectus.com Annual: The Vogelsong Awards!

Really good look back at the offseason rumor mill circa 1985, from @stevengoldman.bsky.social today @baseballprospectus.com. Fun to dip into names and mechanisms of Way Back Then, but there are two other, more serious layers to the piece that make it great. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

OK, look. Some folks think I write for a "salary." That I do it to "feed my children." But that's a lie. The real reason I write is for you. Why else would I look at pictures of knee surgery, or compare line items on the Cincinnati Reds' budget, or think about Leody Taveras at all? It's FOR YOU.

Have a massive headache tonight, so I can't drink my usual 9:00 PM coffee while I edit. But I still need something to work with, so I made a drink I used to make when I was a kid. I called it a Coconut Cocktail. Which is really dumb, because it has no alcohol and often no coconut

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting that the US government take it to Mount Splashmore, take it to Mount Splashmore, take it to Mount Splashmore, take it to Mount Splashmore, take it to Mount Splashmore, take it to Mount Splashmore, take it to Mount Splashmore, per Bloomberg

Still need to find out if Brandon Lowe is going to get that $11.5 million from Tampa and you know they're going to wait until the last possible second to sign the paperwork

d e g e n e r a t i v e d i s c d i s e a s e

Today for BP I ran down the opt-ins and opt-outs, options exercised and declined, and analyzed some of the more interesting ones. Shane Bieber did the city of Toronto a huge favor, while Kim Ha-seong is betting that it's not so easy to find a shortstop that doesn't suck.

The Dodgers might be good at this. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

but if they have great numbers against brandon league, they're a major-league hitter who is a major League-hitter

I try not to get overly political here, but today feels like a day to make the world a better place. Reach out to your friends and loved ones, and tell them: When they use the words "major league" as a compound modifier, they should hyphenate it. "major-league hitter." There. I've done my part

Pretty duplicitous of X to keep calling itself the Everything App, given that I stopped posting on it

I'd also be remiss not to mention @depstein1983.bsky.social's Requiem for a Team for Toronto, which I thought had a terrific concept, well executed:

we do this all year and it's unfathomably cheap to subscribe ($3.83/month for an annual subscription) for now. I suggest you get in while the gettin is good:

also, we recorded a long podcast yesterday discussing the last two games of a crazy world series, what's next for the Dodgers and Blue Jays, whether the Dodgers are ruining the sport, and, as ever, played a game:

while @timjacksonsays.bsky.social dove into our arsenal score metrics, which recently became available on leaderboards and player cards, and discussed how numbers and language can both fail us at times, but they can work together beautifully:

@matrueblood.bsky.social on baseball and its wide-reaching ramifications, whether it intends them or not:

we also have @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social providing an intro to our 2026 Prospect Lists (Dodgers list tomorrow!), as well as a look back on his 10 years of lead prospect writing via 5 prospects that represent how the job has changed over the years. Free to read for basic (free) subscribers):

I think today is a great sampling of the varied, thoughtful work you'll find at @baseballprospectus.com all year long. I'm gonna link some article below, starting with @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com on the Dodgers MLB's bogeyman, and the long offseason discourse we're in for:

"You can’t salary cap a team into caring; it can only punish the teams that do." On the Dodgers, and the exhausting conversation ahead:

That doesn't even include the Titular Otter Chat

My season review for the champs turned into a wide-lens offseason preview for the league as a whole. On the Dodgers, who are exactly as evil as fans and MLB need them to be: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

This summer I closely watched three home games per team, noting everything from the broadcast team and the ballpark advertisements to the score bug. In this @baseballprospectus.com article I go over my ground rules. I'll start with the teams next week.

Snapshots of the Blue Jays from throughout the season show what a thrill ride it was from start to finish. @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

I know the urge is to look forward, leap straight into the offseason business of declined mutual options and such. But there's plenty of time for that. So for one more day, here's a reflection on the best game in the best World Series in recent memory. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Thought of a Joke But Have to Save It For the Article: a horror story for writers

On the meaning of one inch. (Excerpt.) www.joesheehan.com

I’m going to give myself exactly 27 hours before worrying about how the Dodgers aren’t ruining baseball, as a treat

If you’re just now getting up, and want to read about the game, here’s a piece I wrote about the game. It was a good one.

If you're still up, and want to read about the game, here's a piece I wrote about the game (free to read with basic sub)

It's a bit sad that the World Series overshadowed the Hanwha Eagles' incredible run, but what can you do

Baseball demands Kershaw blood

They’re fixing the mound, getting ready to bury Louis Varland in it after his heart gives out

Dodgers can’t even get it to the warning track at this point

Mike Marshall thinks Louis Varland might be a little overworked

Such symmetry in the hit by pitch and the hit by batted ball, back to back

Looked like Varsho yawned in the middle of that diving catch

Did we all give in on the shutdown inning? Am I the only one who still gets annoyed by it?

Where’s Tater Trot Tracker for this one

The worst part about playoff baseball is the fact that we have to care about warmup time

What if baseball just doesn’t deserve to go seven games