First time to see some Bananaball!!!

For no particular reason at all, Heinie Groh's bat from a century ago. sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

It's Bold Prediction season! Here are my 10 hot takes for the season ahead: fantasy.fangraphs.com/paul-sporers...

A few premium teams with major expectations this season sit in the bottom half of our Starting Pitching Positional Power Rankings. @sporer.bsky.social digs into the no. 16-30 rotations:

We’ve Got College Data!

Cade warming up for Pistons / Spurs at the Moody Center in Austin!!

I did a massive overhaul of my SP rankings, available now!

The lineup is set for the #LABR Mixed #fantasybaseball draft on Tues. Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. ET. 1. @pianow.bsky.social 2. @fantasyfix.bsky.social 3. @mikegianella.bsky.social 4. Mike Podhorzer, @fangraphs.com 5. @dvr.bsky.social 6. @sporer.bsky.social 7. @jeff-erickson.bsky.social 1/2

My annual re-draft prospect piece is now live over at FG along w/my dynasty top 150 prospects on The BOARD: www.fangraphs.com/prospects/th...

FYI: Moving my @fangraphs.com chat to tomorrow at 1pm CT/2pm ET to coincide with my Prospect Week article going up!

Rhode Island's 5th inning yesterday 1B Sac Bunt HR IBB 1B 1B 1B HR 1B 1B HR HR HBP 2B BB K 1B BB 1B 2B BB 2-1 FC

RotoGraphs: Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat

IT'S BASEBALL SEASON!!!! ⚾⚾⚾

omggg Darius Garland is a baaaaad man... what an insane finish to the Pistons-Cavs game. gotta respect that amazing bucket, though

Starting now! The Latest Innovations In Pitching Development with Paul Sporer, Max Greenfield, and Rob Friedman aka Pitching Ninja! www.playback.tv/pitcherlist

I'm really excited for Josh Bell's return to Washington! Check that out... plus some other C, 1B, and 2B going after pick-300 who I'm eyeing for 2025

Savant getting the hype machine going, I love it!!

The one where @justinmasonfwfb.bsky.social and I made @sporer.bsky.social relive the nightmare that was his Lions losing to our Commanders and where we discuss the Evil Empire 2.0 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Using the Steamer600 projections to find some potential hitting gems! fantasy.fangraphs.com/identifying-...

Well that was brutal. I knew I shouldn't have gotten my hopes, but it was still kind fun to do so w/the Lions. Onto baseball...

Kevin Burkhardt embracing the meme language "this game is drunk!" loooool

A must read every year - @sporer.bsky.social & his starting pitcher rankings fantasy.fangraphs.com/starting-pit...

Well crap, this is the first time I've felt panic in the last 2 seasons. I'm not delusional enough to expect them to win every single, but I never really panic when things go sideways... until now. These last few mins have been quite a kick in the teeth, especially now w/Goff out injured

I thought Ohio St. - Oregon was supposed to be the Game of the Year?!

Never a doubt!!!! Suck it, dweebs!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Why does our kicker’s name sound like a bootleg version of our school’s color?? “I wanted Burnt Orange, this Bert Auburn!!”

I wish I’d have gone to a different school 🥸🥸 #hookem

How is this one targeting but the one on the Texas WR wasn’t?! So fucking stupid

Happy New Year!!! #HookEm

Another price hike without adding anything to what we get? Awesome, YouTube TV, I just love these emails that feel like a monthly occurrence at this rate

New SP Ranks for 2025 are now live!!!

Updated Cleveland Guardians roster/payroll projection: •INF/OF Spencer Horwitz and OF Nick Mitchell acquired from Blue Jays for 2B Andres Gimenez and RP Nick Sandlin. Roster/Depth Chart: fangraphs.com/roster-resou... Payroll: fangraphs.com/roster-resou...

@jeffpasan.bsky.social did you end up getting the Parisian Flan? (I’m the sneaky line cutter from the cafe)

Wanna know how @rosterresource.fangraphs.com has RosterResource updated so fast alllll the time? Bc even at dinner, he grabbed his laptop as soon as the Soto news broke!

Me tomorrow night:

Who was the first absolute genius to start chest passing the Dr. Pepper throws? It's not THAT long ago, IIRC. I remember people got so mad for some dumb ass reason (I mean, it's the internet so...), but they were a pioneer bc now everyone does it!!!

new @fangraphs.com: the Hall of Fame ballot's top pitching newcomer, CC Sabathia, has a case that combines old-school milestones and a workload that won't be replicated with solid advanced stats for a HOF starter. Not a slam dunk, but I do think he'll get to Cooperstown eventually

Finally done tweaking my hitter projections, thank goodness

I'd not mind the Dodgers using deferrals like it's going out of style if they let you do it in OOTP.

A fall/winter tradition unlike any other: Baseball doc while writing about starting pitchers!!

I've drawn 831 baseball cards in my sketchbook series. Card #1 was done 8 years ago today - on what was Vin Scully's 89th birthday.

I'm not saying KC isn't good, they have the greatest QB goin' so that always gives ya a shot, but holy shit they have 9 horseshoes lodged in their butts this season, too! lol

"Wow, brutal way to lose there by the Raiders!! Can't imagine losing like that!" - Matt Eberflus, probably 😂

While I was finishing up an 👀 exam, Tigers reached a one-year, $1.65 million deal with Zach McKinstry to avoid arbitration ahead of tonight's non-tender deadline, per source. The former CMU great and versatile LH hitter remains a Tiger.

I find the "scored too early" discourse in football to be so silly. It's not like you can score at will, especially in this snowstorm game in Cleveland. Feels like such a downer from an announcer when it's the first thing said after a team scores to take the lead, too!

2024 PitchingNinja Award for Grossest Single Pitch. 🤮 🏆 Winner: Kade Johnson

Players who led their team in batting average, home runs and RBIs in 2024, min. 502 PA Yordan Alvarez HOU Riley Greene DET Vladimir Guerrero Jr. TOR Aaron Judge NYY Shohei Ohtani LAD Marcell Ozuna ATL Bryan Reynolds PIT Brent Rooker OAK Ezequiel Tovar COL Bobby Witt Jr. KC Lower-case triple crowns

@sporer.bsky.social good to see you here friend!

Two MLB teams will have to play in AAA ballparks as a result of two natural disasters. Rays: Hurricane Milton Athletics: John Fisher

Sarah deserves a standing ovation for all she does, and who she is, every day for the rest of time. And she’d still deserve a few more on top of that. www.mlb.com/news/sarah-l...