A good read about Cristopher Sánchez's origin story, a nice cautionary tale about prospect hugging, and an explanation why people still keep trading with the Rays even if that normally doesn't work out for 'em. bsky.app/profile/seid...

just leaving this one here again, feels like it’s gonna be relevant for, uh, several decades now www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

Hoy en @enespanol.baseballprospectus.com: Los Gigantes deberían dinamitar el draft 2026, por @seidler.bsky.social, traducción de @jhernandezlagunes.bsky.social. ¡Para leer todo nuestro contenido en español, ve a baseballprospectus.com/espanol!

The Giants Should Blow Up The 2026 Draft by Jarrett Seidler (@seidler.bsky.social) www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

The 2026 Mets

Good thing all the infielders are playing their “natural” positions while they make all these horrific errors

every time Gelbs does this bit I think of the completely bonkers Let Me Be Frank Kevin Spacey videos

Vingegaard put less than a minute and a half into Gall on a flat time trial over 40km? Good god

as someone who greatly enjoyed Macca concerts as recently as 2022, boy I wish I had never flipped on that SNL video

Oh no, the Yankees

is Cecil Peoples still around

Big drop today: - The Pitch Comps page is live, with every field from the Shapes and Outcomes page available to form comparisons - There’s splits for both Team Hitting and Team Pitching now, the same as appear for Individual Hitters and Pitchers (1/2)

I wrote some stuff about the Mets and the best path forward organizationally as the master plan appears to be failing @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

they’re pretty obviously prioritizing east/west spin and arm strength mixes for pitchers thinking they can optimize them and contact/damage/athleticism profiles for hitters thinking they can optimize directionality/decisions/defense off the traits. I don’t know that Stearns *saying* that matters

I wrote some stuff about the Mets and the best path forward organizationally as the master plan appears to be failing @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

How did Mendoza not get himself tossed and go back while his player was still arguing

The rise of left wing slopulism where people who claim to be left are celebrating stuff like intentionally underfunding pensions and eliminating the income tax baffles me

I am enjoying the Labour Party speedrunning the entire summer 2024 Democrats experience in a week

Guess all the people screaming at the owner that Stearns is [insert loaded pejorative] got what they wanted

The Mets have more information than I do, but yes, it looks like a panic rush job. Is he the regular CF now without platooning or manager wanting to play Taylor disruption? Is he going to remain when Robert comes back? If the answer to either is no, you didn’t have runway to do this

PANIC CITY

That’s the fucking Judas Effect

My favorite part about the Mets natural position and posting discourse is that it often comes attached to “should of” with Willson Contreras, who changed positions in 2025 and who has a grand total of two 500 PA seasons

The draft lottery should be immediately before the draft. The 1.1 team should have ten minutes to decide who they’re taking, that’s it.

I am in fact a big Tugboat fan, although not enough so that I understand what SF is doing outside of Tony V clearly not wanting to play Bailey

I don't know that there's a lot there at this point. You'd have to have a really good concept for both a swing and plate decisions overhaul and figure out how to do it without optioning him and dedicate a lot of ABs to give him runway. Or he's just a generic defensive 5th OF

I see an actual top outfield prospect got called up today

Oh.

here's @seidler.bsky.social on Murakami (and four other intriguing young(ish) players:

I’ve had a lot of pretty cool concert experiences but being first row a few feet off the back of the stage for the Bruce and Tom version of Ghost of Tom Joad is pretty far up there

A bit I started seven years ago because I thought one of my underrated writer friends was funny has led here

There’s a particularly pernicious type of antisocial behavior where a lot of folks, mostly but not entirely on the left, reflexively decide that life-changing societal advancement X is Actually Bad for [insert bullshit reason you’re not allowed to argue] and can’t be helping folks

The greatest performance in wrestling history is Pee Wee Anderson at the end of the Luger/Hogan title change

I see “the best backup catcher in baseball” is going to be the new “best closer in baseball” messaging

"how are Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz doing this year" is the new "who was president in 2020"

so uh who is managing this team tomorrow night

I am way too old to hate a baseball team this much for poor play

if you can somehow set aside every other thing here, the loud previously right-wing coded yelling about nonspecific “they”s who ruined your life…man, I don’t know.

Kodai Senga has a girlfriend in Canada

a presser with like four "no new structural damage"s makes me feel like Wilponism never died

my best guess is that it's a bit of that, a bit of trying to get better access, and a lot of not trying to get yelled at by stans because it's an unpleasant experience

It sometimes feels like the baseball analysis community has shifted from healthy skepticism and questioning authority to a default assumption that everyone is great at their jobs and you don’t want to say something that might cause a job loss

I have discussed Eric Wagaman approximately once every other month with @notthebobbyorr.bsky.social for several years, big day for me personally

Has a manager ever been fired in between games of a doubleheader

I am *shocked* that American Cars wasn’t one of the first singles off the new Noah

I don’t think it’s possible to come across looking more guilty than Russini and Vrabel already have been but by god they’re gonna keep trying

This should be one of the least controversial things I’ve ever written and will probably be one of the most controversial: live scouting is dead. @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

these pictures being from literally TOM HANKS AND RUDY GOBERT DAY of all days just caused me to lose it pagesix.com/2026/04/23/c...

Munetaka Murakami, in the supposedly dispositive 104 PA sample where everyone has drawn conclusions about how wrong/biased/evil baseball analysts and teams must be, has a 71% zcon, a 46% whiff rate vs. secondaries, and a 32% whiff rate vs. 95+ FBs