Been part of the fantasy baseball industry for over a decade and awesome things like this aren't lost on me. My latest at FanGraphs with a little help from The Robot and Stryker fantasy.fangraphs.com/the-declinin...

We've been working hard on developing our new Player Game Cards behind the scenes, and I love how they turned out! We have Traits (Velo, Movement, Etc), Outcomes (Str%, CSW%, xSLGcon), and Modelled Value (plvStuff, plvLocation, and PLV), for every pitch thrown, plus visualizations!

NEW: Trump's Department of Homeland Security bought an Atlanta-area warehouse it's converting into a migrant jail. I found the LLC selling the warehouse shares a DC address with The Carlyle Group, the Baltimore Orioles new owner's private equity firm. All the pieces matter. issa new [eyeblack]:

just got my 2026 baseball prospectus, which means one more plug. i wrote player comments for the angels, a team that has betrayed fond childhood memories and pisses me off badly. @rileybreck.bsky.social wrote the essay. buy it here: www.baseballprospectus.com/baseball-pro...

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would have said this before this happened three hours ago, but: okamoto > murakami in 2026, regardless of ADP

The Angels are losing 9-0 in the second inning of the their first Spring Training game. Time to pack it up and call it a season.

there was a small family-owned business in our town that, for ~30 years, imported kawaii japanese stationery, pens, notepads, origami, stickers, plushies, blind boxes, whatever. it was cute, always a fun little escape. they closed last year because of the imports. for many, the damage is done.

when the heck did fangraphs add this-

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haven't gotten my book yet but just seeing now that i share a byline with riley. this is not how my 13-year-old self would've drawn it up but we'll take it i wrote the LAA player comments. @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com did not know i am a disenfranchised angels fan. i barred no holds.

~2.5 fWAR player with a 111 wRC+ during the 2022–2024 seasons, only entering his age-29 season. low-hanging fruit as far as betting on bounce-backs goes. and very quintesentially breweresque

bassitt hounds rise up awoooooOOOOO

FanGraphs plans to stretch me out this spring. I'm to prepare to take the keyboard every fifth day

*new* from me: As pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, three front office staffers spoke to me about helping Latino baseball players and their families navigate an America ravaged by ICE raids. They say guidance from MLB has been “minimal” so their teams are getting creative.

Got to be on Vince Gennaro's show last night talking about my piece nominated for a SABR award, was a lot of fun and he was a great host! Be sure to check out @swingsandtakes.com at the beginning of the episode too! www.siriusxm.com/player/episo...

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good insight on the tarik skubal arbitration case; i wasn't aware of the clause that allows last-year arb guys to compare themselves to FAs rather than arb precedents. in reading between the lines it seems like detroit hoped the arbiters wouldn't go for it www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/02/tari...

in 2025, a player's regular season bat speed had a stronger relationship to their spring training bat speed than their 2024 bat speed (minimum 15 spring swings)

The Tampa Bay Rays, when they hear two teams need assistance to complete a major offseason trade:

quick reminder that i'll be on at 6 pm ET / 3 pm PT to discuss sleeper hitters. i am decidedly NOT in the BSOML for this so i will probably make a fool of myself, but at least you can listen to keen insight from ray and dave. thx

This is an important paper on social class barriers among faculty in academia. First-generation college grads earn less and are placed at lower prestige institutions despite being just as productive as other faculty. Faculty from upper class backgrounds are overplaced for their research records.

thank u nick for featuring me prominently in this, there is no possible way after years of mediocrity that i am a selling point for this, but at any rate, if you're seeing this, please tune in, please donate, i will be embarrassing myself on friday at 6 pm ET / 3 pm PT / 1 pm HT / 2 am GMT+3

i did not submit or nominate anything of my own, but in the spirit of "making something that's not about me about me," you can read maddie landis' great exploration of vertical approach angle (VAA), in which i was chuffed to bits to see mention of the pitch leaderboard: talksox.com/news-rumors/...

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​​"Win per dollar" isn't a perfect metric because it ignores the Win Curve. Adding wins for a 70-win team is a commodity. Adding wins for an 88-win team like the Red Sox is a multiplier. When you're on the bubble, money spent has a type of multiplying effect where it triggers postseason revenue.

The Dilbert Project. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...

the world is horrible and everything sucks, and we know the internet is fucking worthless now, but it doesn't make it any less shitty that there are songs i may never hear again because they're not on spotify and their youtube lyric videos vanished and all the old download links are dead and !!!!!!!

grateful that patrick invited me back. of the four descriptors below i think i may have fulfilled the group's "furious" quota by myself. preorder here and become infuriated yourself: www.baseballprospectus.com/baseball-pro...

Now @pitcherlist.com Staff are selectable on the Hall of Fame Ballot Metrics app! bbhof-ballot-metrics.streamlit.app

This is the piece that looked into how top prospects who are traded tend to fare worse than those who aren’t www.theringer.com/2018/12/10/m...

shinfo but just noticed that ian happ went exactly 138 for 569 in consecutive seasons. unfortunately in 2023 he had 141 hits on his 569th at-bat

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gotta say: streaming is weird. please don't explain to me why it's good or interesting, because it's not. to say nothing of how clearly socially corrosive it is: it's just fucking weird. i will not download tiktok or twitch or youtube or ????, i am going to preserve what's left of my stupid brain

and the cars remind us that the gas is real

Only 16 days left, including tonight, to scoop this. BP price increase goes into effect in the new year.

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Thought this was a useful perspective from Kyle

Baseball will now centralize all in-game data & tech at minor league level as they have with Statcast at the major league level. This will bring the bottom up, but critics say it's anti-spending, anti-innovation, and punitive to the teams that have invested in the future of the game. t.co/0UuQei8EtW

john lennon [explaining christmas to his friend]: so this is christmas

in their quintessentially embarrassing fashion, the angels managed to coax analysis out of @longenhagen.bsky.social on a *non-pick* in the rule 5 draft, something i don't think i've ever seen in however many years of reading these write-ups

wolverine-gently-touching-a-photograph meme where wolverine is the orioles signing pete alonso and the photograph is of chris davis. ok

the angels love nothing more than a busted 1st-rounder, but a close second would have to be nepo babies