The Ben Rice helium has deflated. It shouldn’t. Cags hits the ball as hard as Kurtz in the air—but not often enough—with better contact skills. Is he a Kurtz/Yandy mashup? With assists from @notthebobbyorr.bsky.social’s awesome new app: open.substack.com/pub/michaelc...

FIRST DAY OF BRAVES CAMP [Jeremy Hefner drags a thick burlap sack to the mound, tearing a hole in the bag. Bowling balls roll everywhere] STRIDER: what are those for HEFNER: warm-ups

now includes minor league pitcher equivalencies and folds those into the Pitcher Comps page the same way

fun new update: I added a page for MLB equivalencies that translates stats from the minor leagues to MLB, and those outputs can be used to look at your favorite minor leaguers on the Hitter Comps page:

Some news for those of you that use my app: I’m rolling out an improved version with a ton of new features, including splits, customizable hitter & pitcher comps, plots on each page, updated SEAGER/damage/pitch models, sample size adjustments, and more. py-players.streamlit.app

Realized it wasn’t accessing the MiLB data I had compiled and fixed that. Should have all the statcast from the minors available in the stats/auto-regressed/splits pages now too

the crashing issues should be better now. Was not prepared for the influx of traffic at first 😭

Some news for those of you that use my app: I’m rolling out an improved version with a ton of new features, including splits, customizable hitter & pitcher comps, plots on each page, updated SEAGER/damage/pitch models, sample size adjustments, and more. py-players.streamlit.app

When an athlete thanks God in an interview it always makes me wonder just how into X’s & O’s they think the big guy is. Would JC run a west coast offense or is he more of a triple option guy? Does he appreciate moving the runner over or does he dig the long ball?

there were two middle infielders in 2025 with 500+ PA and five HR or fewer: Chase Meidroth and Xavier Edwards 24 middle infielders did that in 1976.

the White Sox infield has a little bit of everything Chase Meidroth-Luisangel Acuña middle infield would be straight out of 1973 A Munetaka Murakami-Colson Montgomery left side would be straight from 2073

Cignetti just completed the greatest NCAA save anybody has ever played

Carson Beck kinda has Blake Snell Face

CRIS COLLINSWORTH: My gosh, can you believe it? I tell ya, this is just like The Battle of Tsushima MIKE TIRICO: and so that’ll be Rams ball at the 30

I think Vic Caratini is one of the most underrated players in the game.

gonna guess a 29 yo Bo will get more than 6/158 next winter if he has even a halfway decent season so can’t really blame him for taking that

there’s a saying in soccer: it’s a simple game where 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end, the Germans always win. can be applied to the MLB offseason now: it’s a simple time where 30 teams chase stars for 5 months and at the end, the Dodgers sign everybody.

felt like I haven’t had my best writing fastball for a minute. It’s back. On Pete Alonso for @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

AA isn’t for Alex Anthopoulos it’s for AARP

Kill your pookies. -David Stearns

My advice to Coby Mayo: download Zillow and start browsing in Miami

Gotta say I find it a bit odd the org that churns out Jack Dreyers and Anthony Bandas for fun every year has suddenly decided to invest heavily in what is famously the most volatile free agent demographic.

Ken Rosenthal with the groundbreaking news that the Reds like Schwarber but probably won’t offer him as much as the Phillies. What would we do without such insight

Teams just pay for Ks. It’s the most predictable, reliable way to prevent runs and being able to miss bats with spin is something that ages better than nearly anything else—velo can wane but wicked break can last forever.

Been thinking about this and the other words to describe his tenure/ethos that come to my mind are “dogmatic” & “rote”. The job demands a creative element to set it apart from just hitting “accept” on every +EV decision in a model. Has he run the O’s any differently than a naive BTV model would?

probably didn’t take much to convince Brandon Nimmo to move from NYC to Texas

His medicals must turn you to stone after looking at them there’s no other reason to do this

he looks like he’s about to tell Dave Dombrowski that time is a flat circle

The year is 2072. Darkness blots out the sun. It’s November and a crisp 92 degrees in NYC. José Ramirez just place 3rd in the AL MVP race, extending his record to 29 third place finishes.

You could argue Sánchez had a better season than Skenes straight up, so the unanimous vote is kinda puzzling to me.

teaching myself python for professional reasons (always used R) and thought the best way would be recreating my previous work and somehow I ended up accidentally making a version of SEAGER less biased by hitters’ intrinsic raw power? lmao

Can’t lie, I kinda love that Snell did that.

Just a 99th percentile dawg in him season from Taijuan Walker.

The twins have been placed in an incredibly strong position to grab a ton of talent by dealing one or both of their hi lev arms now.

One blank check is not enough. Give him the whole checkbook

Woke up thinking about Cris Sánchez’s changeup

Will Benson reminds me so much of what Jo Adell was ~2ish seasons ago.

McGreevy was so close to pure zero true outcome greatness

Pretty funny how the schedule lineup up to give Dave Dombrowski an up close look at all the available outfielders 2 weeks before the deadline. Adell/Ward/Duran already had their turn and Luis Robert will get his shot next week.

stating the obvious here but whew, the Phillies are such a different team when Bryce (and Schwarber) is hitting them out rather than hitting singles or gap doubles

Taylor Ward and Jo Adell destroying baseballs but it’s against my local 9. I’ve won but at what cost

I miss the all star break

The Marlins are going to be next season’s “I think they could make a surprise WC run” pick like the A’s were this year, aren’t they

Is this enough to put Cal Raleigh on the Mt Rushmore of donks? J-Lo, Big Dumper, Charles Barkley, Eden Hazard. The 4 Horsemen of the Asspocalypse

Mike Elias’ steadfast refusal to use any kind of resources on pitchers is a good bit at this point.

@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com how do I make a nomination over here

coming soon to a player card (and leaderboard) near you

[mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a bobblehead that looks exactly like Bryson Stott sheared off at the ankles neck and wrists] Me: is that good for the upcoming season

A heist movie where the staff of BP works furiously to plant @notthebobbyorr.bsky.social into the House of Representatives to teach Hakeem Jefferies the intricacies of SEAGER

I’m happy that they’re still trying to make the most of the Bo+Vlad era, but this Jays offseason is all just a little too Arte Moreno for me