I think punk rock taught me this plus: (1) If you can’t do it, do it anyway (2) No one else will care about it as much as you do, so do as much of it yourself as you can (3) Support other people who are doing it the way you are and don’t cut people down

Spring training. What do people train for when they work in analytics? Testing the stuff we use in season: Pre game reports, in game systems, post game reports. Onboard new staff to internal tools. Onboard all staff to the new tools And improve communications! strengthen old ones, forge new ones

Some quick thoughts on the discussion of how stuff models correlate to results generally and maybe some uncertainty for Andrew Painter's four-seam shape specifically

Tune in on Friday! Gonna be a fun show, joining Erik and @carsonpicard.bsky.social on their extremely fun show: The Shallows!

Just silly

Can’t believe the WBC allows McLean to use whiffle balls

If you cry into your espresso because Team Italy lost, good news! You now have a Depressed Americano

Nominative determinism ftw

Which hitters are currently being undervalued in fantasy baseball drafts? I used Process+ to uncover 30 possible names @rotoworld-bb.bsky.social www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/base...

If Juan Soto didn't swing it wasn't a strike

of course you do

Feels a lot like saying a pitcher is special because he leads the league in hit batters every year.

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Lol

it’s wild that Paul Skenes was the no. 1 pick less than three years ago and is now the best RHP on the planet and the no. 1 pick Skenes and the current Skenes bear almost no resemblance to each other as pitchers

An editor from a great academic press reached out — could I turn the website into a book? Our plan from day 1: a beautiful print copy, with full free version online forever. Today, marginaleffects.com hosts the exact same book that Prof Betancourt reviewed for JASA: doi.org/10.1080/0162... 3/9

I'm pretty worried about Shane McClanahan's movement. It's down from the raw 2023 values, which is even worse when you adjust for the drop in velo (shaded regions on his Movement chart are past movement adjusted to current velo).

Tons of FanGraphs Lab upgrades are out today: I made some UI improvements to PitchingBot Visualizer and Squared Up Explorer, and Sean Dolinar upgraded the Hot Streak tool extensively. More to come soon, too! www.fangraphs.com/lab/changelog

This is the single best inning I've seen on these charts, so far

“Does that car need to go to the doctor?”

Evie, watching F1: “Oh no! They’re going too fast! The popo are gonna get them!”

About 20 minutes out to start time, if you still need that nudge. Just added the great @blandalytics.pitcherlist.com to the slate for a Sunday noon ET walk-through of the new player cards at PitcherList! Reg link; details here: www.baseballhq.com/pricing/2026...

Our new Pitcher Game Cards are live! Follow @pitcherlistplv.pitcherlist.com, which will be posting these cards each day throughout the season!

This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.

When the Taco Bell cantina gives you extra food >>>

In this house, we stan @robertstock6.bsky.social. Dude looked *good* today

The greatest thing on the internet today

Our new player cards! Overall Start Grade, location models, plvStuff models, it’s all here. Here’s Shōta Imanaga’s outing from yesterday. Look at that fastball stuff bump! @blandalytics.pitcherlist.com is taking requests on who you want to see! 2025 starts are available as well!

We've been working hard on developing our new Player Game Cards behind the scenes, and I love how they turned out! We have Traits (Velo, Movement, Etc), Outcomes (Str%, CSW%, xSLGcon), and Modelled Value (plvStuff, plvLocation, and PLV), for every pitch thrown, plus visualizations!

Well hey that’s neat, I can add “Award winning writer” to my bio

Every single time I see someone complain about ABS, I want you to know that this is what I see

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

What a SICK goal to win gold!!! 🇺🇸 🥇

Big things happening today. Go win your drafts.

It’s here!!! Episode 1 of The Shallows has landed! Hosted by myself & @carsonpicard.bsky.social you can find it on the @pitcherlist.com site, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, really wherever you get your pods! #fantasybaseball #podcast

Hamates are a thing of the past. The future… is hamNINEs

@carsonpicard.bsky.social & I are launching a brand new pod for @pitcherlist.com THIS WEEK called “The Shallows”! It’ll bridge the gap between casual play and expert strategy for the average fantasy baseball player to navigate talent-rich pools and dominate their matchups. #fantasybaseball #podcast

The Yankees were the best offense, by per-pitch Results, and by Performance (adjusted for pitch quality). Values >100 (in red) mean more runs scored/were expected to score, with a St Dev at 15. So the Yankees faced pitches that were expected to allow ~1 St Dev more runs than league average.

The reviews are in! People are saying: - "These look exactly like the hosts I'd imagine if you said two guys were starting a baseball stats podcast." - "Definitely a podcast." - "Where's Nick?" youtu.be/wAODt5Nxq98?...

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

Posted about Baseball Savant's Sprint Speed metric on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/vorosmcc...

Guess these didn’t work!

Episode 1 of the Approach Angle is up! @blandalytics.pitcherlist.com and I will be talking all things baseball analytics (and hopefully, teach you a thing or two). While the intro is still in spring training form, give it a listen! open.spotify.com/show/1H2ApRf...

Oh hey. That’s cool open.spotify.com/show/1H2ApRf...

What playing against the Hurricanes feels like:

Oh yeah right I wrote a new article you should read it its soooo good pitcherlist.com/understandin...

Hey, here's a small but hopefully pretty useful update to the Baseball Savant / Statcast dot com factory: all the zone charts on player pages now have year-to-year comparison views. So for example: Yandy Díaz was so much better low and away in 2025, run-value baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-playe...