Reposting this after their hitting coach hire was the Dodgers' 41-yr-old MiLB hitting coordinator. What is happening here

I'll do some very unholy things if the Rockies sign Murakami somehow.

5/155 for Pete Alonso's age 31-35 seasons is insane no matter how you wanna interpret it.

The Rockies are behaving suspiciously like a normal baseball organization as of late. I'm puzzled. Maybe Dick really has taken a forced backseat.

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But the catholic church never is

Sly Cooper done fell off hard

Had some time to gather my confused thoughts on the hire of Paul DePodesta and ultimately arrived at a simple conclusion. Even when they try to be like everyone else, the Rockies can't stop doing weird shit. (But also, maybe it works? Maybe? Idk.) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Márquez at his best was a breaking ball artist and master supinator who had the supination coached out of him. (Right before he started getting hurt.) His velo is a little down. I still think he's a gem as a reclamation project, but the upside is no longer an elite #2 like it was 3 years ago.

I have so much to say about the Rockies. Getting it all out there is going to be like the swan song for my fandom if I do it, though*, and that's giving me some level of pause. *unless something unforeseen happens

Watch the Rockies not be at the GM Meetings at all because they still don't have a PBO nor a GM (and manager) in place by then.

Game 7 of the World Series and you think he's throwing at you on purpose? Cálmate un poquito co

All I'll say regarding the ending is that if the Rockies blew a chance to tie or outright walk off the World Series and avoid a Game 7 in that fashion I'd probably commit seppuku

This made me so fucking mad because why did I stay up until 4 AM to watch horrific baseball end a World Series game.

What a bunch of dumbasses

Are you kidding me Clement lol

That ball was super playable

Fucking knew it lol

Kirby is so stubborn with his fastball sometimes

There are times when Kirby pitches almost like he's trying to prove a point rather than getting batters out. He also always empties the tank early during important starts and clearly loses steam by the 4th-5th inning.

Punting a playoff game is always entertaining so kudos to Seattle for that

Leaving Kirby out to die

He's aggressively okay imo. His best calls happen when he's taken by surprise and during the mundane. A better partner would really help him tho

We all love George Kirby but we gotta stop lying about the level of pitcher he is at the moment. (Not that he's anything less than very good and/or can't improve.) In other words, no, he probably shouldn't face the order three times in the playoffs unless the circumstances are favorable.

Wooo SHIT that's a quick bat

this game is an encapsulation of my “shit happens” approach to baseball analysis

(Relatedly I would probably not be pulling him here)

The problem is there are only 0-3 of these guys pitching at any given time but 27 managers who think they have one of them

a corollary to the third time through the order stuff is that when you have an actual true Ace of Aces like Skubal, his reduced effectiveness due to familiarity and fatigue is still going to be better than anyone in your own

Good morning. Today for @baseballprospectus.com I wrote about the Google Cloud baseball ads. They suck and I hate them.

Real life videogame grunt

Why in the world is Treinen warming up lmao

The Ultimate Nick Castellanos Experience:

I'd say Craig has the gift of future sight but let's be honest, we all saw this one coming lol

going to the bullpen with Glasnow at 83 pitches

The Dodgers willingly diving into their bullpen is a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

Many things about baseball fandom are funny. At the very top of the list, though, is how every single fanbase is convinced that national broadcasts and umpires are biased against their team — and their team only.

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We're not talking enough about how the Dodgers deadass just punted a playoff game down by three runs with multiple innings left.

The Phillies made three outs in the top of the 8th: 1) sac bunt 2) ludicrous TOOTBLAN, even for Harper 3) 396-foot flyout

A fitting tribute to Kershaw to let him die at in the postseason at home

HEARTWARMING: Clayton Kershaw playing the October hits in his going-away concert

Ranron Norez today for the Phillies: 7 IP 6 H 1 R 1 BB 7 K 103 pitches - 72 strikes Masterclass.

putting him in in the seventh is darkly funny

The Dodgers bullpen has 15 outs to get lol this will be something

This is an Ubaldo Jiménez post. What an arm that guy had

This applies so well to how the media as a whole (especially the Denver media) treated Bud Black's last four years or so in Colorado.

Speier with an all-time disasterclass after being nails all season long. Relievers will break your heart.

If the "how can you post about SPORTSBALL when we're LIVING under FASCISM" scolds paid attention to sportsball, they'd know what happens when a manager tries to get through a series using only his high-leverage relievers. There's no better example of why you can't go through life in panic mode 24/7

Something tells me these Mariners are going to experience the most brutal playoff loss we've seen in a while no matter how far they make it. The fact that they're actually good only makes it worse.