When Burnes was shipped out, Milwaukee went from 92 wins… to 93, to 97. The outlook for 2027-2030 is exceptionally bright. This is how the Brewers have operated since Doug Melvin vacated the GM role!

Congratulations to Brian Cashman on outbidding Brian Cashman

On J-15 eve, we did a First-Year Player Mock Draft on the @rotowire.bsky.social Prospect Pod! Draft order 1 @zacbeck.bsky.social 2 @sonny108.bsky.social 3 Me 4 Ross Jensen 5 @jessesevere.bsky.social 6 @dynastypickups.bsky.social 🎧 www.pod.link/838315493/ep... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yYD...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is a bad motherfucker

As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night

As we’re force-fed commercials for insurance and financial services it feels like a good time to remind everyone they could use those dollars to pass value back to their consumers but actively decide marketing is a better use

Daylight savings tonight I could do a couple dozen innings

IF MY WIFE SCOLDS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE TV I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL

One of the beautiful things about baseball is you cannot simply run out the clock

I struggle to recall an in-game interview I found particularly insightful, and the managers clearly don't want to be interviewed while trying to navigate an extremely important game, which leaves me to be believe the only beneficiaries are the broadcast companies

Wrobleski getting hit by a comebacker immediately after that exchange is irrefutable proof we're living in a simulation

Me, indignantly after hitting someone with my car: what the fuck are you talking about I'm not trying to hit you

Asking Dave Roberts about that home run just moments after Bo finished rounding the bases is diabolical work

It's a good thing they walked Vladdy. He might have homered in that situation, which would have been backbreaking

The Blue Jays vs. the basepaths is a battle of titans

Padres are gonna trade for Will Klein and make him a starter

My performance in the office tomorrow

JOE DAVIS: here’s Ernie Clement to open the top of the 33rd JOHN SMOLTZ: that Alejandro Kirk sure is portly ain’t he JOE DAVIS: Ben Rortvedt’s 116th pitch misses low JOHN SMOLTZ: it’s the little legs that slow him down

Enrique Bradfield Jr. has done it again, this time robbing Kevin McGonigle of extra bases with a leaping grab at the wall in right-center. I’m not sure I’ve seen a better defensive week in center field.

Josh Naylor leading with his dome feels on-brand

Posting here before the bad place, the most impressive performances I’ve seen in the AFL so far: Enrique Bradfield Jr — posted a season-high max exit this week Luis De León — best start of the week, easy clean delivery Walker Janek — 7 RBI on Fri, two tanks this week Esmerlyn Valdez — duh

"Are the Dodgers good at player development" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

From @chrisclegg.bsky.social and @zacbeck.bsky.social AFL newsletter. Bradfield showed all the tools yesterday while continuing to post career-best exit velocities in the AFL.

I have to imagine asking an umpire what a check swing is would sound a lot like the Supreme Court on pornography: it’s hard to define but I know it when I see it

Next year’s annual top 100 book is going to be fun to look at Progress coming along slowly but pleased with the look thus far

An hour before first pitch of like the second most important game of my adult life for a team I’ve loved since I was four feels like a liminal space between the Hell Yeah Zone and the Weekend of Despair

Roki Sasaki coming back as a dominant reliever and total panacea for LA’s bullpen woes feels deeply unfair in some way, which is somehow balanced out by how genuinely sick it is to watch him in full form

Aaron Judge this, Aaron Judge that -- somebody check on Addison Barger. That's an extremely tough inning of baseball for the young man

Working on player graphics for my offseason top 100 prospect book, I think it’s going well

Wild that Gerrit Cole got hurt and the Yankees just made another one in a lab

What they’re calling me after two cups of coffee

🚨 Episode 415 is Live! 🚨 @ericcrossmlb.bsky.social is joined by @zacbeck.bsky.social to pick and discuss prospects of the year for each National League organization, including: - Cam Caminiti, ATL - Ryan Waldschmidt, ARI - Aidan Miller, PHI #FantasyBaseball podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Landmark episode of the PPI pod this week. It’s our first three hour show and our first guest from a major baseball publication, @seidler.bsky.social of Baseball Prospectus. Awesome opportunity to pick his brain on player evaluation. I hope you enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/3H4h...

I haven’t seen it in the wild yet, but the moment a prospect analyst gets caught “writing” reports with generative AI they need to be relentlessly shamed, we cannot let it be normalized

PPI Ep. 13: Chili Dogs and Avocados In this episode, Beck and Scully discuss trade deadline action, an historic night from Nick Kurtz, the draft signing deadline, and all of the minor league promotions from the last week. open.spotify.com/episode/77VA...

Are the Twins going to be able to field a team tomorrow?

At the very least I'm going to try to simulcast the slop I post on the other site here. I'm working on a ranking update, something I do very sparingly, and I'm excited to put it out sometime in the next two weeks. Here's a preview:

I've been mostly lurking here for a little while (I plan to post more regularly) and I've gotta say, what a stark difference from the bad place. Deadline discourse over there goes like: FLEECE WOAH *the most racist thing you've ever seen* L Mets *something more racist than the first, somehow* COOK

About a month ago I talked my best friend into starting a baseball podcast. We’re both approaching 30 so it didn’t take much convincing, but if you follow me here you’d probably enjoy it! It’s called the Prospect Promotion Incentive, in part a play on the reward for calling up players early.

On this week's @rotowire.bsky.social Prospect Podcast, @zacbeck.bsky.social of @dynastydugout.bsky.social joined me to talk best pickups, fastest risers, buy-low targets + he humored me with a little relief pitching prospect talk! 🎧 pod.link/838315493/ep... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7WV...

Haven’t posted this on the other site but for my Bsky friends: I think it’s time to treat Aroon Escobar as a back-end top 100 prospect. His data in the FSL so far: 105.9 EV90, 89.7% zcon, 24.0% chase Even if it’s small sample, the industry buzz and eye test corroborate the data.

My top 100 prospect book is officially live! I spent five months (over 400 hours) studying film, creating player graphics, and filing full reports on 100 players. It culminated in this book, totally free for all to access. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! www.thedynastydugout.com/p/beck-s-202...

Just wanted to show you all the sick ass graphic I had made for the Threecap series (next installment publishing Monday)

Only just skimming this now but this is one impressive achievement, thank you for making this available.

My top 100 prospect book is officially live! I spent five months (over 400 hours) studying film, creating player graphics, and filing full reports on 100 players. It culminated in this book, totally free for all to access. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! www.thedynastydugout.com/p/beck-s-202...

10 hours until the Top 100 Prospects book I’ve been working on for 5 months goes live on the Dynasty Dugout site. Transparently, I’m super nervous (and excited, undoubtedly). It’s the biggest personal project I’ve ever done and I really hope readers feel it was worth the wait.

Top 100 book out Monday

The other site is down so Bsky gets the scoop first — My top 100 book is set to publish on Monday, March 17th or Monday, March 24th! All depends on how much I can burn through over the next week in terms of writing and editing. 83 of 100 full reports are finished and it’s at 49K words, 157 pages.

The top 100 book has a cover and it fucking rules (I’ve been staring at it instead of editing for like two days now)