“Antisocial behavior is bad and should be societally discouraged” is a fundamentally leftist position and I’m concerned it doesn’t seem to be in the current American political landscape

leaking an informed ballot internal from a month ago with weird demographics that still shows you down on the topline is, out of context, typically the type of thing a campaign does when they know there's bad news coming (often a neutral poll in the field they expect to show much worse)

I pulled such low numbers for two of the Bruce shows that I got in before dynamic pricing kicked in (not that the base values weren't nuts)

Has anyone, preferably with meaningful credentials, modeled what would happen if more teams tried to spend more money in current baseball free agency? To wit: Would bottom-half markets actually get really good players? Or would really good players go to the same places, and just be paid even more?

Remco blaming completely blowing up on a climb on bad hotel air conditioning might be the new funniest Remco excuse which does cover lots of ground

1.) owners have had to put the projected value of the annuity in an interest bearing account within 18 months for several CBA cycles, this is not how "deferred salary" works in MLB at all 2.) even if that wasn't true, secured debts against team would just come out of the franchise's purchase price

just my two cents as a neutral, but I think the people who see parity in baseball as an issue worth sacrificing labor solidarity or a season for are *probably* not going to be convinced of anything when the same team has won 3 of 6 World Series and is on a 13 season streak of playoffs/90 wins

I’m using the past tense because Friday will also mark my final day as an active writer. I’ll always love and hold the craft dear, and I’ve been lucky to have this career. But it’s time for me to take on a new challenge. That’s why I’ve accepted a position in the Washington Nationals front office.

I owe you all for reading and sharing over the years. One of the toughest tasks for a writer, and goodness knows there are many these days, is finding an audience. I’ve been fortunate to have a great one across several stops in my career. I’ve never taken you for granted. Thank you so much.

Programming note: Friday is my final day at CBS Sports (though you may see my byline pop up on prewritten items.) My decision, no one else's. I’ve loved my time and my team there. Mike Axisa, Dayn Perry, and Matt Snyder were doing great work before me, and they’ll continue to do so after me.

it’s Buddy Holly. When they do their greatest hits tours outside album cycles they always close with Buddy Holly

NARRATOR: another shoe has fallen, look at this dumbass

I think it's notable that college baseball teams used to frequently recruit 9th graders and even 8th graders but right around the same time of colleges being able to pay their athletes, the NCAA banned players from being able to commit until their junior years of HS

I've got bad news on who the side trying to maintain the status quo in the last CBA negotiations was

I am arguing for pushing back the age of international agreements to line up with roughly the age of the youngest Rule 4 draftees *as the rules are supposed to already* because I do not believe the adults surrounding 11-year-olds should be entering into shady side deals, yes

I love that Bluesky just has the most undeservingly confident burner accounts in the world screaming at actual experts about things they know nothing about because they aren't talking about the exact thing the burner account wants at all times. What a great website

the players not having any real protection and being subject to being dropped in the intervening 3-5 years is a huge part of the problem!

this is enough of a pancakes/waffles post that I maybe shouldn't even respond, but 1.) half of baseball journalists are huge soccer fans and 2.) intl soccer has an organized academy system with some guardrails, which is distinctly not what is happening with MLB teams' illegal pre-deals in the DR/VZ

To make one last point , This is actually a low offer for a prospect this far out .. to put it in context Elian Pena signed with the Mets for $5M 3+ yrs out ..

of course not, but ~30 teams are doing it and if you don't dance you end up with an empty class in 3-5 years

By the way this offer comes with no guarantees.. One or two things will happen , he will almost guaranteed to get more or less then this amount .. If he develops in to a better player he will ask for more . If he doesn’t develop the team will walk away from the deal ..

This is the worst thing happening in baseball. It is happening all the time and nearly every team is doing it. And a lot of prospect media is complicit.

This, but it's in the same level as the skimming: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

he is known to be under federal investigation for allegedly skimming licensing money, I don’t think there is a shoe past that

I do not think anyone could possibly have any clue what fallout will come from the Clark resignation until we know things like “who is replacing him” and “how far reaching is the scandal taking him out”

how did Google not pull the Ilia Malinin AI commercial from airing nonstop during the rest of the Games

Every dunk contest makes me feel like a back in my day crank but also not a single one of these guys could lace Vince Carter’s Nikes

Seeing a lot of “this guy is throwing these shapes” here on college opening weekend and to me the real question is “what shapes do you project him to be throwing in the majors”

~~~well-meaning progressives and liberals are not your enemy, and are in fact are going to be a huge part of any political coalition you will ever try to form~~~

back in the Ticketmaster mines for the Noah Kahan on sale, hoping this goes better than the Harry Styles on sale

line from Rob Cerfolio's interview at FanGraphs is gonna stick with me for awhile bc so much of public player evaluation has turned the other way: "We’re not solving for Double-A performance. We’re solving for major league impact." blogs.fangraphs.com/cardinals-fa...

it is fascinating how quickly purportedly anti-machine, purportedly left politics devolved into factional fighting over who gets to be the new Tammany Hall in a king of the ashes scenario. Just unbridled desire and entitlement for undemocratic power because you hit a canvassing number.

the secondary parade of athletes in Cortina looks like pro wrestlers at a medium sized indy show doing their ring entrance

some enterprising reliever (or team production staffer) is eventually going to create a Welcome to the Black Parade closer entrance and it’s going to be the best entrance in baseball when it happens

interesting acting choice for Domhnall Gleeson there

Filled in on the @viewsfrom314ft.com pod with @pamsson.bsky.social again today. We were treated to a seminar on the #Yankees' farm system from @seidler.bsky.social. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

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I mentioned the date for a particular reason and it is happening a bit so time to address: no, Jeffrey and I did not have any clue what any other outlet’s rankings would look like when we assembled. This list was put together for a book that went to print a full month ago.

Not really, he didn’t miss by much

We talk about it every year or two but people really like ordinal lists. And the 101 part is branding that predates even me, one of the longest continually tenured writers in BP history

staggeringly few teenagers hit the ball that hard and that often, but swing plane is a real issue

around the 70s. A scout friend of mine suggested to me a few months back that we are much better at finding prospect weaknesses than we were a decade ago. But I also think there have been a lot of graduations and that there are downstream effects from lost COVID development/org sizing contraction

Introducing the BP Top 101!

Eldridge has had the highest average EVs for his age cohort for like a half a decade straight, I would not overindex 60 swings of Savant's calculation of bat speed (highly controversial in the industry!) to ding his power potential

I'll have a much better answer on this in a couple months but "pretty high"

ymmv but it is generally not that hard for me to source batted ball and pitch level data for all pro levels, NCAA D1, and showcases. Time consuming to and annoying to do so, sure, but I expect much will likely just be public soon athletic testing/bat tracking/biomechanical data is much more guarded

I don’t recall him being that contentious for us. We did make a pretty concerted effort to back off marginal receiving catching prospects who don’t athletically project to non-1B/DH positions and he might’ve gotten hit hardest by that of anyone

I think in both cases there’s a realistic chance to be at an acceptable contact shelf, and you’re talking about two of the loudest power/athleticism profiles in the entire minors, maybe the two single loudest. It is not a super strong class and we’ve faded Hope a decent chunk due to bat-to-ball

No, him I was arguing for during the 101 process itself