i had a thread on twitter for this but let's just start over here. currently the angels has these former 1st-rounders from other teams: t walker g rodriguez t d'arnaud a rendon d pomeranz r stephenson j lowe n madrigal a manoah j dunn a faedo + former marquee intl signees in soler, moncada, peraza

fangraohs

love the broadcast showing tatís' career stats with the bases loaded, which includes four grand slams, effectively ignoring the fact he hasn't hit a home run since 1984

in modern analytics we've found for four-seam fastballs there is added value per inch of induced vertical break, i.e., "per vert"

The MLB Spaghetti Policy - Teams who will allow you to bring in a gallon ziplock bag of spaghetti 🍝 to a game. Want to add the Phillies here too. Their policy was unclear online but we found posts this morning showing they’d allow it too.

Andrés Muñoz is in the worst stretch of his career. He also has a new fastball. On changes, intentional or otherwise, for @lookoutlanding.bsky.social

now it's jj bleday's turn

well you know what happens when you legume

The main factor in return from elbow arthroscopy isn’t what was removed. It’s a combo of how quickly range of motion and strength returns, swelling resolves, how the elbow responds to a graduated throwing prog, how the tissues that were cut in order to get into the elbow heal, etc. 6 weeks is fast.

just had a vision

may the fifth be with you

"How good was that start?" With our game score app from around a month ago, we received over 4,500 responses, and @blandalytics.pitcherlist.com has put together an article showing how that came together to make the grade you see on our player cards! pitcherlist.com/explaining-p...

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...

rekt lowder

Thinking about baseball.

"we're not talking enough about taylor ward" but really what a weird season taylor ward is having. i thought that guy was on the precipice from a plate discipline standpoint and he went and gave me the middle finger. this is kinda what BAL did to ryan o'hearn a couple of years ago fwiw

i guess i will be grateful that it only took him a month to get going, rather than, like, five

would just like the record to show that when @pitcherlist.com asked me who my sleeper pitcher was this year at pitchcon, i said connelly early (shallow) and josé soriano (deep) 🫡

Spencer Strider's only had one AAA start, but StuffPro is as excited about him as its been since '23 www.baseballprospectus.com/player/13796...

my lowest-stakes conspiracy is that the killers' 2004 single "somebody told me" ripped off strong bad's "somebody told me (now i believe them)" from 2003 open.spotify.com/track/3Rlfp7...

Wake me when they make a city connect jersey that's just the windbreaker pitchers wore when running the bases in the early 1990s

am i allowed to wonder if sam antonacci is just a glorified nicky lopez. is that allowed

Something I've mentioned to some folks recently but wanted to highlight w/ some graphics: The Dynamic Dead Zone inspired "expected movement" clouds that I and others have added to our movement plots should not be interpreted as a way to tell if a pitch's movement is good or bad.

gonna comp some free lifetime subs for new + existing subscribers. if you are and remain subscribed, you're eligible. i'll email winners. monthly = 1 entry annual = 10 entries get password access to "proprietary" metrics, the pitcher card, fantasy values, more: buymeacoffee.com/pitchleaderb...

i am so. fucking. mad. at how microsoft has integrated copilot into everything. no i don't want you to recommend six things to clean up in my workbook! no you do not need to provide a two-paragraph summary of a 900-page word doc because now it is frozen and i can't even use it!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

michael wacha has a 3.36 ERA since the start of 2022, which is 16th best out of 100 pitchers who have thrown at least 500 innings during that time. which effectively makes him a hall of famer

would just like to stake a claim as a moderately early adopter on landen roupp, wish i got more of that guy on my teams

is this good

a complimentary thing i wrote about josé soriano, except: maybe the strikeouts will come after all not the same arsenal but really feels like a poor man's cristopher sánchez

ok, the pitch leaderboard is updated. • there is a FILTERS TAB. With FILTERS. you can FILTER things now. like, by actual metrics! and not just key parameters! • by moving filters into their own tab, i created more space for actual metrics. i should've done this so long ago. embarrassing

i don't ever post about the pitch leaderboard on here but anyway i apologize for minimal updates in the first week and a half but tomorrow will be a pretty big one, for the first time in a long time, so ok

tjmaxxing

back @baseballprospectus.com for the first time in a while, using prospect reports--the raw text--analyzed with deep learning models to predict who will get to the majors and how valuable they'll be. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

missed two trevor rogers starts and one drew rasmussen start because i forgot to set my lineups last night 😭 decidedly not BSOL

1) didn't know ethan was back doing public-side stuff 2) never not thinking about hitter swing decisions 3) michael

I've made a crowd-sourcing tool to understand how people perceive start quality! This app will give you a random start from 2022-2025, and you grade it from A-F. That's it. Use whatever grading criteria you'd like! mlb-start-grading.streamlit.app

I did some very important journalism, but more importantly I made the collages that accompany the piece and this hyper-niche form of graphic design is now my passion.

before trump killed the PV credits at the end of last year, the play was: • purchase a US-made EV, get $7,500+ off • install PV with batteries, get a 30% tax rebate • finance the PV with a green loan (designed by banks/FCUs specifically for PV projects), pay down the principal with the rebate

A pitcher's stuff impacts their balls in play more than their location, deception, sequencing, etc. this is part of why studying the latter is so difficult to make progress on

jon olerud got to wear a helmet on the field, so

logan webb 🤝 paul skenes worst pitchers alive

Can we get 10,000 RTs for this

juuuuuust now seeing logan webb as jesse plemons. just now. sorry it took me so long

has anyone read the universal baseball association, inc.? happened upon it at a bookstore and was floored by the premise; i'm gonna read it anyway whether you liked it or not but would still love to hear your thoughts

GoodReads Title: Let's Play Baseball Author: Ginger Swift Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ Review: Little to no coverage of modern advanced analytics/sabermetric concepts

the rays part of the brendan donovan trade pulls more clearly into focus when you reach the dave cameron-jeff sullivan juncture of the piece. fun read

stuff: C–