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Headlines from Spring Training are dropping early this year

my wife seems upset about kiké hernandez being handsome but specifically that he's not *always* handsome. i'm showing her pics of him being a doofus trying to explain to her it's by design

can't always be sure if i used a word correctly (news flash: i did) but i CAN always be sure that the AI summary is going to be unhinged

where is your dog tonight? i hope he is a doberman

THE ARSENAL METRICS ARE LIVE ON LEADERBOARDS AND PLAYER PAGES! plus, we've made some accompanying updates to StuffPro and PitchPro. Thread with details -->

Chris Bassitt on change in routines with the bullpen move: Can't have a rally beer anymore

figured out why the dodgers lost yesterday

I've updated my pitch visualizer! You can now query specific pitchers on the Pitcher Search page. gabes135.github.io/pitch-search/

no one gives a shit except for maybe @timjacksonsays.bsky.social but i'm devastated i'll be missing this hometown show (my hometown, not TWY's). chain is the best, seriously unfathomably to me they're playing it again after all these years

i read roth and wonder why i even bother writing anything about anything ever

how a sabermetrician sees the world

i don't think that shohei ohtani is a good baseball player

proud to say i was ahead of the curve on today's nonsense

Earlier today Andrés Muñoz told the media that when they leave their apartment, he and his wife leave the TV on so that Matilda (their cat) can watch the game.

I wrote about David Festa's Botox treatment for thoracic outlet syndrome and have provided even more insights in the comments:

the grim reaper implies the existence of the grim sower

The Mets and Magic Start of 2024 season through 6/11/2024: 38-37 (.430) The next day, Grimace threw out the first pitch. Their record for the next calender year (including 6/12/2025): 106-66 (.638) 6/13/2025 onward: 38-55 (.403) The power of Grimace lasts 1 year. No more, no less.

shinfo but i played little league with dennis lamp's son. he was not very good and did not like playing

unpopular opinion but i still think aaron judge will win the AL home run crown

i'd like you to take a look at my abs

Here's some code to estimate ball's x/y/z position at intercept point. Note b/c we don't have actual batter x/z location for that swing- just average for that month & number of strikes- there's gonna be discrepancies. gist.github.com/sbrown70/654...

What is induced vertical break, and why has it become the most important pitching metric besides velocity? An explainer, with Chad Jennings and Dennis Lin, featuring the legendary Josh Kalk on the record www.nytimes.com/athletic/663... ⁩

trey yesavage? more like trey, ya savage 😂😂😂😂😂😂 wow

“Going by this description, Bananas Foster—the official non-profit of Banana Ball, the corporate parent of the Savannah Bananas—uses donor funds to purchase tickets and merchandise from the Savannah Bananas, in order to invite guests to Savannah Bananas baseball games” defector.com/the-official...

jonah tong actually sucks. you may want to drop him in all your leagues, especially the ones i'm in with you

18 HR, 24 SB, .289/.356/.445 through 141 games

just remembered i wrote trevor rogers' comment for the baseball prospectus annual. enjoy:

next step is to program bots to listen to the AI podcasts, pad the stats, make a buck, entirely devoid of human interaction

Induced vertical break, spin efficiency, seam-shifted wake—what do these buzzwords mean for a pitch trajectory? Explore using my Statcast-based pitch visualizer (physics modeling based on work of @pobguy.bsky.social). Updated daily with new pitching data! gabes135.github.io/pitch-graphic/

people dunking on n*te s*lver makes me wonder, again, why anyone in the baseball world still follows him. you are not obligated to. there are so many better uses of your time than spending even one second reading words that he writes

We're hiring a full-time prospect writer. Come work with Eric and the rest of the FanGraphs crew!

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RotoGraphs: Hot Hand or Hard Data: Is Recent Performance Weighted Enough in Pitching Projections? fantasy.fangraphs.com/hot-hand-or-...

DEBATE MODERATOR: Our next segment is called Remember Some Guys. Former Governor Cuomo, please begin. CUOMO: Alex Rodriguez? (crowd grumbling and booing; hot mic picks up someone saying "not a Guy") MAMDANI: Lucas Duda (crowd going nuts)

very fitting that CHC traded javier báez for pete crow-armstrong. he just handed the baton directly off to him. electric tools (on both sides of the ball) with prohibitively bad plate discipline, and sometimes those tools supersede all else, but boy is it difficult to thread the needle in perpetuity

an unusual flex: i have all three of this year's 4-homer guys on one roster

a) set your goals / comeback kid / title fight / the story so far, 2010 b) every time i die paul frank dodgeball tournament, 2008

Something that tons of folks have talked about- and that I found evidence for in my SaberSem stuff- is batters have a hard time detecting movement toward their eyes vs movement perpendicular to their eyes. Thought it would be useful to try to illustrate this:

Free to read at Baseball Prospectus: Adversarial Pitch Location The repeatable skill of targeting a pitch where specific batters most dislike seeing it. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

adjusted bat swing on the pitch leaderboard controls for velo, location, and count. edgar quero's adjusted bat speed by month: mar/apr: -4.0 (4 mph below average) may: -4.2 jun: -4.3 jul: -2.7 aug: -2.8 in other words, quero's bat speed is up roughly 1.5 mph controlling for context

chandler simpson's ratio of stolen base opportunities per plate appearance is down to 0.43 on the season a month later

thank u gork

my toxic trait is i pronounce patio like ratio