"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"

Today at @baseballprospectus.com: The Braves are the only publicly-traded baseball team, required to file financial results every quarter. Here's a look into how they did financially in the third quarter. (It was better than how they did on the field.)

OK, finally getting around to this, one more call for questions.

My Dale Murphy opinion is that the Veterans Committee(s), once necessary, have long outlived their usefulness and should be permanently disbanded. Create a committee to cover non-players and call it a day.

Are you ready for the ultimate Let's Remember Some Guys? Every No. 1 Prospect For Every Organization In @baseballamerica.com History BA began ranking Top 10 Prospects in 1983, so that's more than 40 names for all franchises except the ’90s expansion teams www.baseballamerica.com/stories/ever...

Sent out my ballots and writeups today. Four pretty easy calls, two tough ones. AL MVP: Aaron Judge, Yankees AL Cy Young: Tarik Skubal, Tigers AL Rookie of the Year: Nick Kurtz, Athletics NL MVP: Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers NL Cy Young: Paul Skenes, Pirates NL Rookie of the Year: Drake Baldwin, Braves

Today's newsletter is out! And it's Free Thursday! Inside: Transactions, Trump's endangered tariffs, signs, signs, everywhere signs, a dumb government shutdown gambit, how the AI crash might happen, London 101, and a lesson in pub etiquette. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

On this week's @padreshottub.bsky.social: * World Series reactions * Is Don Mattingly the secret managerial candidate? * Should the Padres offer Michael King a QO? And more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSma...

Duke's up six in the second half.

Are they playing with the lights off at Rupp Arena?

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:

My annual coda to the postseason coverage. What a ride that was. www.joesheehan.com

my ranking of the top 50 free agents this winter is now up for subscribers to @theathletic.com: www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...

Wrote about how Game 7 not only had two of the five most impactful plays in history, it also had.. - the most impactful out ever - 3 of the top dozen plays ever - the most plays that swung championship WPA by at least 15% of any game ever (9) www.mlb.com/news/most-wi...

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

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Not to be a dick, but my newsletter is six years older than Substack. Baseball Prospectus, as a paid product, is 13 years older. Also, "audience-backed media" covers radical concepts like "books," "magazines," and "newspapers." The idea that people shouldn't pay for words is a recent invention.

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.

Left this morning with one thought: We were an inch away from having the World Series end on a replay review.

This Series has been amazing, I'm so ready for Game 8 tonight.

Game 6: W, Yamamoto Game 7: W, Yamamoto

Hey, how about putting the ball in play!

We’re 13 months removed from ”the Dodgers can’t win in the postseason.”

Had ‘em all th[anvil falls]

Nightmare on Yonge Street

I think I’d rather have Klein here.

Stop sliding into home on force plays.

Gotta be pass interference on Pages.

They were playing Ernie Clement like Matt Clement.

Addison Barger is a completely different hitter than he was a month ago.

Great to have no idea where the outside corner is in the ninth inning of Game Seven of the World Series.

Hoffman protecting a one-run lead is about as good as it was going to get for the Dodgers. Dinger machine.

Ernie Clement has more postseason hits than Mike Trout has postseason innings.

The trick to winning the World Series is having your scrubs hit like stars and the other guys’ stars hit like scrubs. Where’s my consultant deal?

Lincoln Riley has actually gone out and won a huge game on the road. Huge for him, huge for USC. I bet this will be a big story in LA tomorrow too

Hoffman protecting a one-run lead is about as good as it was going to get for the Dodgers. Dinger machine.

The Dodgers were second in MLB in wRC+ this year. I swear.

Kyle Tucker is watching the Dodgers this week and pricing private islands.

How many #9 hitters are in this lineup?

Commercials between pitches are yet another example of MLB’s continued enshittification.

It’s quite possible the Jays could close this with Luis Leal, Jim Acker, and Jackson Todd and the Dodgers still wouldn’t score.

Very surprised this isn’t a lefty. Don’t like.

Cold Places 17, Los Angeles Teams 7

Sometimes it’s things like “a double play ball hits the pitcher.”

Sometimes it’s just your year.

Mookie takes the 1-0 hanger only to go Javy Baez on the next pitch. Come on, man.

also, the intentional walk scored

Nine outs on 28 pitches.

Becoming increasingly clear that “how do you feel about the ground rule double call in game 6” is one of the most basic “do you know ball” questions around right now, and a lot of people are failing that question

Ten pitches, four batted balls, aggregate xBA of .870. And that was the good part of the lineup.