congrats to my @baseballprospectus.com colleagues @srbrown70.bsky.social, @depstein1983.bsky.social, @stevengoldman.bsky.social and RJ McDaniel, and all the other finalists on their nominations!

Congrats to all the finalists for the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards! sabr.org/latest/annou... Voting for the winners begins next week. Thanks to @baseballprospectus.com, @fangraphs.com, @sportsinfosolutions.com, @ibwaa.bsky.social for their contributions to the selection process.

A follow up from @jrodrigues39.bsky.social on his batter aging curves, looking at what they tell us about free agent hitters. Schwarber forced us to redo all the scaling (on the right is the original plot) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Chicago people, looking for guidance: I have a couple very old newspaper pages from early 1900s I would like to preserve & get framed. Anyone know of a place in Chicago that can do that? I know a special coating has to be put on newsprint to avoid further degradation & am struggling to find a place

The Lod’ Star by Matthew Trueblood (@matrueblood.bsky.social) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

A streamlit app for generating a batter's typical bat path: barrelovertimeplots-3kgk2mj9g35ngrt9ypqqin.streamlit.app

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

That is som “The Pope is from Chicago” shit.

Hail Mary.

holy moly

thinking about the pope pacing back and forth in his apartment at 3:30 am yelling at the tv

METS: Here's a ton of money for three years BLUE JAYS: Here's a lot of money for seven years DODGERS: KYLE TUCKER: This is so hard DODGERS: KYLE TUCKER: But I'm gonna have to go with the Dodgers

The newest course in the SABR Analytics Certification on-demand program is now available, "Applied Statistics for Baseball", led by instructor @robarthur.bsky.social. SABR members get registration discounts and your work will be reviewed by @baseballprospectus.com staff: sabr.org/analytics/ce...

Driving up to Minneapolis on Friday with @bibliogrrl.bsky.social. We’d appreciate any help you can give so we can bring lots of supplies with us! Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

But also, if you’ve got spare winter gear around the house, get it to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Unhoused folks are going to need lots of help!

anybody here work in sports medicine research or study injury prevention? would love to chat

"[Surprise Factor] is another window to look through, and every room is different" The Arsenal Metrics are both analytical tools and storytelling tools, and Tim does both excellently here. @timjacksonsays.bsky.social www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

As my mother would often say, get a book and read. Here's one. Do it for Marion.

2026 Pitcher Projections are here on my Substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/vorosmcc...

sauvignon bloc

BPro's The Ax has Framber Valdez with 181.99999999999997 IP, and I also do not think he'll reach 182 innings this year.

IF SHOHEI OHTANI CAN PICK UP HIS DOGS POOP SO CAN YOU

An unfriendly reminder to block and report AI slop. We really don't need that garbage, especially from supposed journalists.

"the death of a woman is not SMIRKABLE"

this is so fun, omg.

"The result isn’t optimization, it’s about survival" Really enjoyed working on this piece with @jrodrigues39.bsky.social on how swings age, building off work from @justinochoi.bsky.social. Link to the code behind it below! www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Ah well. Can't disagree here really. Americans did vote for masked agents of the state to kill innocent people, whether they understood that at the time or not. Too bad they didn't listen to anyone who tried to explain it to them bsky.app/profile/atru...

Tapping my "They are generating fake videos with AI and telling him they're real" sign.

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Included within is Okamoto's 2026 DRC+ projection. You can get access to his entire projection, and everyone else's, right now with a super-premium BP subscription. PECOTA will release for all premium subscribers during PECOTA week in February.

It is fun but I would say it requires a bit more commitment than that. Or a really committed co-owner

also open to chatting with any transit-savvy Chicago or Chicagoland people about the infrastructural funding Arlington Heights and the Bears were discussing

I forgot about this in the midst of holiday things, but I'll choose a little later tonight for a gift subscription to @baseballprospectus.com

OPEN THE SCHOOLS

This week at @baseballprospectus.com we're publishing the best articles of the year. Everything is an absolute must read. This was one of the greatest regular season at bats you'll ever see, so I broke it down in detail, pitch by pitch. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

good tools are good tools, but they don't magically make you know what you're doing.

The photos here are lovely, but the alt text really makes it.

I've seen them live, at the Piggly Wiggly Stage at SummerFest. A lonnnnnnnnng time ago. It was ... something.

One of my favorite things about baseball is that anyone who contributes to a winning team, even a little, gets a ring. 15 players threw 6 IP or fewer for the Dodgers this year. The first two people to name at least five (without looking. no cheating) will get a gift sub to @baseballprospectus.com

Banger from the past. theonion.com/cat-clinging...

Would like to gift a membership to a young aspiring baseball analyst

last effort: I run a baseball site with some of my best, smartest, and most talented friends. we do fun and engaging work all year long, and it's about to get more expensive to read that work as of 1/1. I'd much rather you get in the door as cheap as possible. It also makes for a great gift:

NEW on Baseball Observer: search and publisher filtering. Baseball Observer now supports semantic text search. Three modes are available: (hybrid) relevance, date (chrono > relevance), combined (relevance + chrono). h/t @jenramose.online for nudging along search and other improvements

Just thought I'd mention that I've started a substack to vent my baseball related spleen onto the world. Feel free to stop by and read and comment: vorosmccracken.substack.com/p/i-bet-your...

Coming up with the worst possible lie to cover for getting my ass whooped; a lie that now opens myself, the promoters and betting companies up for investigation ino order to own the libs

St. James Food Pantry is the only pantry serving people in need in the neighborhoods closest to the ballpark - including Bronzeville, Bridgeport, South Loop and Chinatown. Murakami also will donate $10,000 to the Food Pantry to support its ongoing efforts to help Chicagoans.