since when is otañez on waivers

oh yeaaaaaah

great post, tennis deserves the same public data revolution as baseball, it's infuriating how much good shit ATP/WTA just keeps locked up

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hell of a year. go m's

Los Angeles is a spiritually better city more favored by god.

give us the exit velo cowards

so when did addison barger become fernando tatis jr

hey dan remembered it's the playoffs

just give naylor $100 million right now

would love for smoltz to say, just once, "wow i really hate this mound visit"

did the game story last night

another interesting adjustment — yamamoto hasn't thrown a first-pitch four seamer since the leadoff HR

as @sammillerbb.bsky.social wrote recently, it's gotta be a matter of time before pitchers stop defaulting to fastball on the first pitch of the game

frankly, i love baseball

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bro

catchers are amazing

that kirb slider is dialed in

lefty cal only went oppo five times this year, fortune was smiling on dump 61 here guy

i'd like to think of myself as a kind person but every time the broadcast shows a sad tigers fan i get yet another dopamine hit

honestly respect, baseball/chess analogies do not usually work or make sense

even by snell's usual standard this is some strong commitment to not throwing anything over the heart of the plate

long shot here but does anyone know of mariners watch parties/mariners bars/mariners playoff gatherings in LA

i'll say it... it's stolen fastball valor to group schlittler's cutter in with his four-seam and sinker, a pitch with seven inches of gloveside break is not a fastball

didn't realize i could enjoy a post about cars this much

la chimera

this lodolo guy seems pretty good, too bad it was illegal for him to come in until they were losing

wouldn't be surprised if morejon vs PCA has the lowest expected wOBA of any batter-pitcher matchup in that series, i think it makes sense to tee that up in a huge leverage spot

wrote the dodgers reds gamer ln

love boog using the blowout to get into some real nerd shit

crazy aim on the changeup for snell so far

well that was fucking awesome. go mariners

can't wait to see aaron judge's family in the stands when cal hits 63

go bears

win win

evidently there is no relationship between fastball command and arm angle variance. i wrote about it for @fangraphs.com:

as far as null hypothesis blogs go i think this one turned out pretty fun

does luzardo get cy young votes at this point lol

leo rivas wow that's maybe the moment of the season

Thought Michael did a really nice job with this!

This is great, and a nice retort to the idea that "analytics" folks don't care about doing the little things

for @fangraphs.com, i wrote about trail runners. how often do trail runners advance? which teams do it best? and how much of an impact do they make?

savant minor league search if it also had video

so funny that the tigers got kyle finnegan and were like dude what if you didn't throw your dead zone fastball 70% of the time and now he's unhittable

so it looks like tong/tolle have two of the best fastballs in the sport

last year someone came into the aux box and tried to fight me for sitting during the anthem, apparently this is happening all over our great country

not optimal

who even cares if the mariners lose close winnable games due to preventable strategic mishaps, it's fine