2026 Season Preview: San Francisco Giants by Alexandra Whitley (@alexandraw.bsky.social) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

not able to watch but it would be so funny if chinese taipei got to #2 in the wbsc rankings and then got shutout by australia

murakami has a 56.3% chase rate and 56.5% contact rate through four spring training games lol

i love spring training

the savant gameday redesign is pretty rough

finally got around to watching the womens free skate :)

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karolina muchova title i could cry

homophobe grifter choking >>>>

Not sure if anyone else has said this but Sawchik was clearly hired by MLB to write anti labor talking points ahead of the CBA He wrote an article two weeks ago on payroll differences which ended “Removing that cloud, discarding that talking point, would take interest in the game to another level”

idk what i’ll say if dasha, rapidly falling out of the top 100, still beats iga

I think this is the single worst player-team fit I can imagine. He sits 90 with like 15 ivb from a high release and throws lots of fastballs, almost exclusively down the middle. He is going to give up 4 home runs per 9 innings in Coors

It is February 1. The Giants have announced zero coaches for the manager they hired before the World Series started

i’d rather they gave donovan walton another chance tbh

the americans who were harassing foki in the opelka match are back for the men’s doubles final and one is clearly wearing a confederate flag. odd that the broadcast was so willing to show it

tbh i kind of love that zverev js getting put in a situation which encourages his typical passivity to come back, esp. in the first slam where he had actually been showing consistent aggression. this loss could be in his head for years

zverev cursing out alcaraz for getting injured right before he was about to beat him, lmao. unbelievable whiner, world class complainer

satan does some very impressive work it would seem

lmao at the world feed commentators saying “no one has ever died on a tennis court” like thats a compelling argument against the heat rule. are we supposed to wait for the first?

FOKI

The Opelka fans in flag overalls being mean to Foki should be put to death I think

world feed commentators talking up vukov like crazy. kind of surreal

I miss watching Marketa but Baptiste and Townsend has been very good after a slow start from Taylor

why did the world feed commentator just say that haddad maia doesnt have doubles experience lol. she has made the tour finals before and is usually seeded

this is all-time levels of coach speak. a complete lack of information or commitment to even just complimenting a player

Florentino Pérez really does run the Dodgers

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wta tournaments play pink pony club on like every changeover. i guess its a happy pink girl-type song in auckland idk

the cubs love 5’9 infielders with a 105 max ev

karolina muchova btw :)

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I could think for a month and never come up with the phrase “conquer freedom”

the a’s love giving big money extensions to players who have been just kind of alright for 12-18 months

Seeing the creature comforts crypto ads makes me sad

lmao the ringer’s end of year sports moments list used a photo of the wrong carlos alcaraz (and it’s been up for over a day now)

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have to say that i’m not really a fan of the annual 60 mph wind storms

doug christie’s inability to run even a three-guard rotation is really strange. lavine goes out with injury and all of a sudden keon and malik combine for 10 minutes played. how. injury is supposed to open up opportunities

unbelievable how much portland wants to lose this game. why did they even put clingan on the floor there

I was hoping that Keller got a chance to start somewhere

this got my hopes up for a moment but why would star trek academy have a villain. they’re just a bunch of cadets, the stakes can’t reasonably be that high

There’s just no way the kings are giving keon ellis dnp’s again

sadly because zerpa's entire gameplan is ground balls (5th best, min. 60 ip) and called strikes (3rd best), i have to say he's a future all-star

i wrote part of a 2023 bsb about how angel zerpa at the time had the worst k/9 since 2014. it was like 3.4 for in 30 innings. i guess he'd good now or whatever

Josiah Gray has one of my favorite player pages in that he is absolutely terrible every year but within a very small range of badness, such that they keep him around

Good player. Strange to me that no one above them claimed him, much better than Justin Dean, for example

Someone has to make them stop doing this stuff

Caraballo is kind of a crazy get for a Rule 5 draft favor