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I did some math to approximate how many homers the new dimensions might create in 2026

You love to see King Félix get his well-earned respect!

He went to Driveline (Stats Edition)

2026 Pitcher Projections are here on my Substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/vorosmcc...

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

And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...

Avs continue to absolutely destroy teams in the 2nd

Try new stuff. Meet new people. Be present for your neighbors. Good things will happen.

This is going to be an awesome event in March. It rocks that I get to be a part of it with @thomasdrance.bsky.social. We're already cooking up some fun shows for that week with special guests. ("popular" and "sophisticated" are their words, not ours. But i'll take it!) www.nhl.com/avalanche/ne...

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

Pham struggled with contact lenses in 2025, and this report from late June says he felt like he was "heading in a right direction" after trying multiple different lenses. Timing lines up almost perfectly with his Contact/Power gains. sportsnetpittsburgh.com/2025/06/25/p...

Tommy Pham got better as the season went on, adding positive Contact and Power contributions to his consistently plus Swing Decisions. He faced a brutal slate of challenging pitches at the start of the year, then gradually crept up to a more league-average quality of competition.

Adjusting hitting stats for the quality of pitcher/pitches faced? Someone should show Pham Process+ pitcherlist.com/what-is-proc...

I’ve been doing a pod for my stream regulars for awhile now. A few of them want me to promote it more so I’ve decided to do a monthly publicly visible version (all other episodes get uploaded quietly to yt) I talk about my job, data science, baseball stuff, management stuff youtu.be/QUSi8KBY-U4

I don’t understand how the Avs are *so* dominant at even strength and **so** impotent on the power play.

I'm excited to announce that, at long last, my first article for Pitcher List will hit them there interwebs tomorrow! Watch this page for the link!

Hello and welcome new followers! Here are the awesome staff of @pitcherlist.com! Give them a follow for the upcoming season 👍

Extremely cool new app created by Kyle Bland of @pitcherlist.com that uses the Tracker for its source data: bbhof-ballot-metrics.streamlit.app

New year, new app! bbhof-ballot-metrics.streamlit.app

Hall of Fame voter metrics! "Stinginess" measures player slots not used. 1 is median, higher means voted for fewer players, and 0 means they used all 10. "Orthodoxy" is how common their votes were that year, given the number of players you voted for. 100 score means you had the most common players.

Re-running this for 2025 and... Yikes, Rockies! The Giants were the most stressful, alternating leading and trailing in the last few innings

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is your annual reminder that “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) has the same meter as — and therefore can be recited to the tune of — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

Got to play on pro ice tonight. All of our fans were there, just out of frame

New post: what predicts future future goal differential the best? What about offense? Defense? Revisiting an old research idea with data from the chip era open.substack.com/pub/puckover...

For a fraction of the price of training an LLM, I can also struggle with the word "the"

"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy. "And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.

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Relievers (!!) and Catchers are getting pricey. Looks like some of the fear about the shallowness of 2B is dissipating.

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Thought this was a useful perspective from Kyle

I'm happy to announce that I'll be writing for Pitcher List! Watch this page for links to articles as they're published. @pitcherlist.com

I am getting really annoyed by this Central division arms race

Avs continue to absolutely destroy teams in the 2nd

Stealworkers

Old fashioneds are a high variance drink masquerading as a high floor one. Great whiskey with quality sugar and bitters is so very good, but bottom shelf stuff makes a surprisingly terrible drink.

Numbers guy made some numbers! pitcherlist.com/pitcher-list...

Celebrating National Llama Day 🦙

Fun thought experiment! I went through and pulled the most and least equal distributions of fWAR for each team's "most-used" roster (by PA/IP). Diamondbacks are most reliant on stars (Perdomo/Carroll/Marte), while the Rockies/Twins are most equal in their talent distribution.

nasty business

Nathan MacKinnon has been on the ice for 41 5v5 goals for so far this season. He just passed the Seattle Kraken (39) and is only two behind the Los Angeles Kings (43) now

BP does such awesome work across so many facets of baseball. Simply put: if you want to know more about baseball, subscribing to BP is one of the best ways to do it.

This all checks out

The most important, practical takeaway from our story is that if you are single, you should take up curling.