RotoValue player of the week Ronald Acuña Jr. .333, 5 HR, 5 R, 10 RBI, 5 SB Pitcher of the week Jacob Misiorowski 14 IP, 20 K, 0.429 WHIP, 0.64 ERA, 2 Wins www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... #MLB #FantasyBaseball

Great that baseball-reference is continuing to improve its data quality!

RotoValue Player of the Week: Ketel Marte .536, 3HR, 11 R, 12 RBI Pitcher of the Week: Max Meyer 13 IP, 14 K, 0.00 ERA, 0.692 WHIP, 2 Wins www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear... Fantasy #MLB

#MLB RotoValue Player of the Week Christopher Sánchez 15 IP, 17 K, 0.00 ERA, 0.667 WHIP 2 Wins Batter of the Week Andy Pages .417, 4 HR, 5 R, 8 RBI, 1 SB Honorable Mention Bobby Witt Jr. .407, 3 HR, 7 R, 4 RBI, 2 SB www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

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#MLB 5x5 RotoValue player of the week Byron Buxton .345, 5 HR, 7 RBI, 6 R, 2 SB Honorable Mention Jordan Walker .393, 2 HR, 11 RBI, 6 R, 2 SB Pitcher of the week Jesús Luzardo 13⅓ IP, 1.35 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 18 K, 2 Wins www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

@thebhp.bsky.social I first heard of the podcast from @joshtpm.bsky.social, who did an interview with you and @coproducerzee.bsky.social a few years ago. Josh uses the Norman motte and bailey castle as a metaphor for the administration's ballroom/bunker: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

#MLB RotoValue 5x5 Player of the week: Ildemaro Vargas .364, 4 HR, 7R 12 RBI $47.52 RotoValue Pitcher of the week: Landen Roup 12⅔ IP, 13K, 2 wins, 0.789 WHIP, 2.84 ERA $42.70 RotoValue www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Sear...

@thebhp.bsky.social Do you think the investiture controversy between Paschal II and Henry I should have made the list of top 5 Pope fueds in the last segment of this post? talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende... What might be your top 5, or 10?

#MLB NL Central still going strong - all five teams are at least 3 games over .500. The last time an entire division had been at least 3 games over was August 12, 2023, when all 5 AL East teams did it. Before that year, it had not been done since 2012!

@stathead.com Was wondering how unusual this is: all teams in a division at least 3 games over .500. Can stathead filter teams by division? Can it search based on a linear combination of two other stats (e.g. Wins - Losses >= 3)? I am trying to find some way to search if this happened before.

#MLB The NL Central is playing very well: all five teams are at least 3 games over .500! Imagine being 12-9 on the year and in last place. www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/ProS...

@kenwhite.bsky.social Looks like you're about to get some competition!

#MLB #OpeningDay One day in, and I'm deep in last place because of this: www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Auct... Small sample size, of course. And luckily¹ I didn't watch because I don't have Netflix. ¹ Also unluckily, as I was perfectly hedged, and the Yankees fan for 50 years was thrilled!

#MLB opening day is a good time to polish the RotoValue crystal ball! blog.rotovalue.com/index.php/20... Play ball!

without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work "Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do."

@immaculategrid.com pecision question: Is a .300 average ≥ .300, or ≥ .2995? Reggie Jackson finished 1980 at 154-514, or .2996 as his only .300 season. Same Q for any ratio stat: does it use the displayed precision or the underlying real value?

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@thebhp.bsky.social This is half a millennium ahead of where the pod is now, but I loved @erikloomis.bsky.social's description of Charles II: "Charles was also unusual among kings in that evidently, he was not an incurious violent moron." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/erik...

@talkingpointsmemo.com's membership model may not be easy to replicate, but it has worked well for it and its readers.

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When J.D. Vance sees a forecast like today's, does he sing "I'm dreaming of a white Kwanzaa?"

Horton sees a who? The cartoonist @billamend.bsky.social deserves credit! At least it gets even more attention this way.

At least Zillow Sleuth Ed Whelan took leave from leading the Ethics and Public Policy Institute for a few weeks after falsely accusing one of Brett Kavanaugh's HS classmates of attempting to rape Christine Blasey-Ford.

This is terrific! A Tom Lehrer song I hadn't heard before, too.

I suspect the core issue here is that the components of wOBA are more stable than runs allowed. So wOBA may well correlate as well or better with runs than runs itself!

I named my fists Sense and Sensibility because I'm suffering from Jane's Addiction.

This is wrong. Exit poll data showed more Perot voters had Clinton as their second choice than H.W. Bush. In this analysis, Clinton's popular vote margin would have risen from 5.5% to about 7%: split-ticket.org/2023/04/01/e...

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#MLB My idea to #KillTheIBB Change the walk¹ based on the count. A 3-2 walk is like now, but on 3-1, you go to second, forcing all runners. 3-0 puts you on third. Make the pitcher throw at least a strike, preferably 2. Thoughts? cc: @tangotiger.com @joeposnanski.com ¹ Also for HBP

Not humble brag: in my 20s I averaged 3 seconds faster than that 220 yard "sprint" time for a full marathon.

In this piece @davidkurtz.bsky.social describes Trump's address yesterday to the assembled military brass as "... a long, rambling speech that could be confused with incoherence." He subtly exposes executive dementia, which ceased being an issue in mainstream media after Biden dropped out.

They're the only two players named Muncy in MLB history, but not only do they share a first name, they also have the same birthday, August 25th!

Let the awards debates begin!

When Maris hit 61, he was the MVP despite Mantle having the better year. Judge was MVP when he hit 62. So if Raleigh hits 63, his odds of winning MVP go up. But maybe not as much as they would have 64 years ago...

Nacho Nacho man I want to be a Nacho man! Hey, I'm glad he's on my Rotisserie team this morning!

Finally Eugenio Suárez, traded to Seattle in July, no longer makes this post! He hit 36 for Arizona before the deal.

When you add in his pitching, Shohei Ohtani now has... 6.3 WAR on baseball-reference! www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oh...

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

Beatles song ½ off!

"What were you smoking?!?"

This is awesome! One man deserves the credit. One man deserves the blame.

I was first American in the 1995 Buffalo Marathon (a Canadian beat me). My now spouse grew up there and cheered me on!

Alas, Paul Skenes and Tariq Skubal are slated to start different games in tomorrow's double header. I don't get it if I'm Detroit: best chance to sweep is to match aces and win that matchup. This increases odds of a split, which is good when you're under .500, but not over!

I suspect you mean Bill in this thread, not Hillary. But perhaps not, or maybe both! Adults under 30 may have direct memory of her as a politician, but not him.

My wife, who is from Lima, wants me to point out Pope Leo XIV is a Peruvian citizen. 🇵🇪

Blog Post: Evolution of a stat: wOBA tangotiger.com/index.php/si...

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Star Was Tax Driver Silence of the Labs

I watched this game from the bleachers! Tough Cleveland lineup, with Jim Thome, Albert Belle, and Carlos Baerga.