Munetaka Murakami wants every piece of information the White Sox are offering him. So for his interpreter Kenzo Yagi, a lifelong baseball fan has had to suddenly become a baseball expert, learning complex terminology and concepts to translate them accurately. soxmachine.com/2026/05/mune...

14Ks is the most for any pitcher so far in 2026

got a rocket, in your pocket... stay cooly cool boyyyy

Apologies to all of @ewpod.bsky.social's patreon supporters, our monthly bonus episode is being delayed by my spring cold, the most annoying sort of cold - should be recording tomorrow!

personally I think we missed an opportunity to call this RosterResource: Sickos Mode, but...

they're playing @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social's music

I don't think it will happen, or should, but it would be so funny if Mason Miller won the Cy the year after the BBWAA* voted to create a new Reliever of the Year award. (*not me, it was a "no" for me)

And the official write-up of the Roster Grid, with suggestions more than welcome:

Is the Padres system good? Well, it has some 80-grade names at least. Courtesy of @bgawlowski.bsky.social.

We bantered on espresso machines and managerial firings, but the main event is our conversation with Jason Benetti. We chatted about his new gig as the lead broadcaster for Sunday Night Baseball on NBC and also entertained an extended digression on Mr. Peanut. This is Effectively Wild, after all.

I think there probably IS something both provocative and smart to say about the current bout of self-destructive nihilism a lot of people are struggling with right now and uhhhh I will post that link when it gets written

The RosterResource Roster Grid is now live at @fangraphs.com! • Excel export (members only!) • Choose to have all 30 teams in a row or stacked by division • Division filtering • Flip between go-to lineups vsR and vsL These update instantaneously when the main RR pages update. More TK!

Roberts has been engaged in a racist project since he was a baby lawyer and I hope we all lead with that when discussing his legacy

new @fangraphs.com: my look at how the Braves have weathered several injuries to their rotation, another Jurickson Profar PED suspension, and slow starts by Ronald Acuña Jr. and Austin Riley to put up the best record in baseball.

I watched Gazz Bazz's kid take a bunch of pitches and wrote about it. Rough month to debut if you're a middle infield prospect who's merely been promising instead of paradigm-destroying, but I liked what I saw on Day 1

Some people seek greatness, others just want to make Mariners jokes but have greatness thrust upon them anyway

I measured the changing size of the strike zone in the ABS era

Ben and I talked to Brad Lidge about his post-playing career life as an archeologist (with a little baseball mixed in too). Really fun and illuminating conversation!

everyone's making fun of this guy, but posting about Skenes in a way normally reserved for dudes encountering the idea of like, peak Serena? that's actually feminism, baby.

Unbelievable. Take a bow @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social @jasonkirk.fyi

I don’t know, guys, I think my preseason Red Sox World Series pick is looking pretty solid.

Funniest possible Mariners lineup to have scored 11 runs, no notes.

Ben and I talked to Brad Lidge about his post-playing career life as an archeologist (with a little baseball mixed in too). Really fun and illuminating conversation!

Mostly I feel bad for a guy who made $72 million playing for (until two weeks ago) a good team. Tells you a lot about how Taijuan Walker's Phillies tenure went

Look, I could be upset about Seahawks taking a running back in the first round, but did you know that they just won the Super Bowl?

Sort of a good news-bad news situation going on here

new @fangraphs.com: Things aren't going great in Boston, from staff ace Garrett Crochet on down

Upgrades to the baseball sim: now it has home field advantage integrated

I’m always saying

sometimes you just want a chance to hang with your boys

Ball gets to second base. Batter awarded a single.

It's April 22 so let's not shit ourselves, but right now it looks to me like Brice Turang has made a career-altering advance in his swing and/or approach for the third season in a row

My wife had to ask me why I kept giggling from the next room over. It's because I made all these gifs of Nolan McLean making batters look silly:

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

I think we have to entertain the idea that most of the baseball teams are bad this year, even some of the good ones

hmmmmmmmmmm

Murakami homered again. @benclemens.bsky.social broke down the slugger's first few weeks in MLB today - check it out!

this was so fun, and I think we reverse-jinxed the Mariners, at least temporarily

this awakened in me a primal desire to bully the hell out of Shayne C*plan, because my god

oh, we're doing airport discourse again?

FanGraphs Lab: A Baseball Simulator blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-la...

this isn't funny, kruks only dress like this when they're very distressed

Mariners have an organist for every home game challenge

And now it’s a nine-game losing streak…

The Griffin and McGonigle extensions got me in a navel-gazey mood. Come investigate the economic belly button of free agency with me

new @fangraphs.com: The Tigers believe they've found a cornerstone of their future and have paid handsomely to secure him. Looking at his ZiPS projections (courtesty of @dszymborski.fangraphs.com), you can see why.

I can guarantee you've never seen Seth Lugo analyzed quite this way.

new @fangraphs.com: wrote a tribute to my first favorite ballplayer, Davey Lopes, who passed away last week.

me learning about clavicular and sneako