I was so excited to watch the Patriots on the tiny airplane TV for my flight home today. I have now seen them turn the ball over five times. Maybe I could have waited until I got home

Grady Emerson, the potential first overall pick next year, looked the part of a superstar as the 17-year-old led the Dodgers to the HRDX championship. www.mlb.com/news/grady-e...

Grady Emerson, the potential first overall pick next year, looked the part of a superstar as the 17-year-old led the Dodgers to the HRDX championship. www.mlb.com/news/grady-e...

I’m a food influencer now.

H/T to Justin/WPBLFan's Substack, but the Women's World Cup group stage is coming to Rockford, Ill., next year! www.wbsc.org/en/news/inte...

We've got a good one here! Netherlands just took a lead against Great Britain in the 7th

European Baseball Championship starts tomorrow am! Spain wants to win a second straight title, while NED and Italy want to reassert dominance. Czechs want a first gold, GER coming off Prague Baseball Week win, and GB wants to turn silvers into gold. Stream here: baseballeurope.tv/home/events/...

You likely know Baseball Bhutan from this incredible photo. Well, now the organization is trying to raise funds to continue spreading baseball to children throughout the country. Take a look at their GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-bh...

Larry MacPhail sounds like a wild hang

Active ballpark number 21

New game idea. Who said it: Warner Herzog or Whitey Herzog? "I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder."

Tums Cam showing people eating across the ballpark is diabolical

Sean Casey jersey sighting tonight!

SNF? Must mean Sunday Night Fieldgoals am I right

Drove from KC to STL today and I made some CHOICE stops. - Bank robbed by James Gang in Liberty - Jim the Wonder Dog’s garden in Marshall - Shakespeare’s Pizza in Columbia

Michael Cuddyer will be swinging a bat again today for Home Run Derby X. Had a chance to talk to him about being Drafted during a math class and his penchant for magic tricks. Full video: www.mlb.com/video/michae...

Sunday morning at 3:00 am, the United States plays Japan for the @WBSC U-18 title. Of course it's come down to these two nations. Potential first overall Draft pick Grady Emerson is hitting .409/.588/.500, while Japan's Hyuma Okabe has a 1.072 OPS and tourney-best 7 SBs.

They have ornaments for your favorite Team Italy star at the Kauffman Stadium team store. Dress the tree with dingers

Kauffman Stadium is a really beautiful facility. Plus I got to shag flies on the outfield — the closest I’ll ever come to being a big league outfielder. That grass FEELS like better grass

Ashton Lansdell -- a star for the US Women's National Baseball Team, Ole Miss Softball, and the Party Animals -- discusses the recent Women's Pro Baseball League tryouts. She'll join the Royals for Home Run Derby X tomorrow.

If you don't mind me piggybacking off your fine work...

It all started with a voice, one much like James Earl Jones' from Field of Dreams. It told Kemp Gouldin to bring baseball to Egypt. Now, thanks to help from plenty of MLBers, a few thousand Egyptian kids are playing the sport. Story: www.mlb.com/news/feature...

The countdown continues: Five months from today, "Moses and the Doctor" will be published. No time like the present to preorder. bookshop.org/p/books/mose...

Could this be a pre-WBC tuneup for Sebastian Walcott?? This is entirely speculation, but as he's Great Britain-eligible ...

The Arizona Fall League rosters come out today, and we already have 13 Top 100 prospects heading to the desert. Full rosters to come later, but here's an early taste:

It all started with a voice, one much like James Earl Jones' from Field of Dreams. It told Kemp Gouldin to bring baseball to Egypt. Now, thanks to help from plenty of MLBers, a few thousand Egyptian kids are playing the sport. Story: www.mlb.com/news/feature...

Romy González just looks incredible hitting to the opposite field. It is like a ballet set to TV analysts from time immemorial talking about taking what the pitcher gives you and sending it the other way.

Today for @baseballprospectus.com I wrote about one of my hobby horses: the long, drawn-out death of catcher framing. MLB’s buffer zone adjustment this spring was supposed to take another bite out of catcher value, and it did — except for one dude.

in honor of Ray Hudson’s retirement I decided to re-enact what it must have been like to be his co-commentator

Sweeny flexing his skills by getting the great Sandy Koufax on the phone!

From Joe Trezza: A look at Australian pitcher and Pirates prospect Brandan Bidois who has gone 57 straight batters without allowing a hit. www.mlb.com/milb/news/pi...

This is cool - Someday there could be a Native American WBC Squad. www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...

Grady Emerson is certainly looking the part of the first overall pick at the U-18 World Cup for Team USA right now. Hitting .500/.571/.652 through 5 games. Has 7 hits, 5 walks, just 2 Ks.

Frederich Cepeda Jr -- the son of Cuban international superstar Frederich Cepeda (leader in many WBC career categories) -- is in the U-18 World Cup right now for Cuba. Cool story with him from the WBSC: www.wbsc.org/en/events/20...

Steve Sarkisian says Arch Manning isn't dealing with any arm pain and dismisses the idea he was grimacing. "I've never filmed any of you guys when you're using the bathroom, so I don't know what kind of faces you're making."

Picked up this note thanks to Eric Balnar's Australia newsletter: Pirates pitching prospect Brandon Bidois hasn't allowed a hit since July 29th, a streak spanning 51 batters. From Queensland, Australia, he would be 39th Aussie big leaguer if called up.

I promise I didn't edit any of this in OOTP. Jim Cockman is a real baseball player.

Stumbled upon Scotland's Caledonia Classic Game 1 between the Glasgow Comets and Tayport Breakers. Believe a few GB nationals are on the rosters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KLh...

After one quarter against Syracuse I feel comfortable saying it: PUT UCONN IN THE PLAYOFF

It was nearly perfect: Jabari Henry broke up a no-hitter with an 11th inning, game-winning HR to set the Partner League HR mark. Only problem: The Atlantic League's Keon Barnum had caught up and passed him in the last month. This is the HR race you've been missing: www.mlb.com/news/jabari-...

It was nearly perfect: Jabari Henry broke up a no-hitter with an 11th inning, game-winning HR to set the Partner League HR mark. Only problem: The Atlantic League's Keon Barnum had caught up and passed him in the last month. This is the HR race you've been missing: www.mlb.com/news/jabari-...

What is even the point of the single knot? The single knot unravels in about a sitcom’s length while the double knot will survive the heat death of the universe. Why don’t we just call the double knot the completed knot?

WBC update from Fernando Rayo on X: Jeter Downs turned down the request from Nicaragua to play with them as he is expecting to line up for Colombia. Downs has a .733 OPS in 50 games for the Softbank Hawks in the NPB this year. x.com/Rayo2Fer/sta...

I need someone to keep a running liveblog on Roman Anthony's current injury status the way the NY Times keeps a daily liveblog on the fresh hell we live in.

An update on how your favorite former MLB players turned college football stars are doing so far this year. Turns out, this not an exciting update, but I did a quick peek so now you have to, too: Monte Harrison (Arkansas): 1 catch, 29 yards Bubba Thompson (South Alabama): DNP

My god, this is all I've ever wanted to do. Three cheers for @davidjroth.bsky.social, @adarowski.bsky.social and the B-Ref crew for this. I assume this is what my doctors will use as a memory test when they're checking me for dementia one day.