thread of responses from MLB clubs w/r/t Venezuelan players/staff

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NEW on Baseball Observer: search and publisher filtering. Baseball Observer now supports semantic text search. Three modes are available: (hybrid) relevance, date (chrono > relevance), combined (relevance + chrono). h/t @jenramose.online for nudging along search and other improvements

Over the weekend I posted a little gift guide of rad artists, Chicago folks, and other things I like a lot. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

These are all the slides and github repos from SaberSeminar that I've seen folks post so far. If anyone sees anything missing let me know and I'll add it to the doc! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Enormous thank you to @saberseminar.bsky.social for having @enosarris.bsky.social and myself to talk about imputing arm angles. Our slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Code: github.com/pitchingplus...

Fuck cancer.

Wrote up a couple of recipes on unstructured data extraction from MLB prospect ranking lists using LLMs. What used to be gory scraping work is now wonderfully simple.

missed this in the polars docs: you can load a polars dataframe from pydantic. github.com/pola-rs/pola....

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