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2026 Prospects: Washington Nationals Top Prospects by Michael Donodeo (@mdonodeo.bsky.social) and BP Prospect Staff www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

as a reminder, our prices are going up on 1/1, which means you can lock in the current rate right now and get access to things like the Yankees top prospects list, from @mdonodeo.bsky.social, which we just published this morning:

Broad trade thoughts: - It’s fine - Both contracts bad - Nimmo contract has more pathways to being reallllyyyy bad even if presently better bat - Righty bat good - Semien should trade contact for pulled fly balls - Semien’s floor dependent on defensive regression - AJ Ewing stock up probably

depends on the night tbh

Trying to escape everything going on by watching the Mets fumble a playoff spot, presented by ChatGPT

Average Wonder Years concert

2 Pennsylvania Headline published an hour apart GOP has time to draft "Charlie Kirk Day" Legislation, but doesn't have time to pass our (now 3 month late) budget to fund our schools.

what if we buy back the guns, melt them down, then use the metal for building material for affordable housing and parks

Induced vertical break, spin efficiency, seam-shifted wake—what do these buzzwords mean for a pitch trajectory? Explore using my Statcast-based pitch visualizer (physics modeling based on work of @pobguy.bsky.social). Updated daily with new pitching data! gabes135.github.io/pitch-graphic/

Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.

Jonah Tong Jonah Tong Jonah Tong www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

David Peterson goes 8 scoreless anyway

The year is 2089. An ant the size of a curio cabinet who is hooked up to what scientists are calling "the world's most racist computer" is president. Water is unavailable but humans have adapted by purifying motor oil. Joe Flacco has been announced starting quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Call-Up: Nolan McLean by Michael Donodeo (@mdonodeo.bsky.social) and Timothy Jackson (@timjacksonsays.bsky.social) www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

I went to high school three blocks or so from here, walking past heavily armed guards at the government printing office most days, especially when there was some sort of national security threat. This is just ridiculous

Unsurprisingly, batter's swings get more accurate the more they see a pitcher. These are observed rather than modeled values, hence the occasional weird values the third time through likely due to sample sizes.

The SEPTA cuts aren’t the worst thing happening right now but man they’re a microcosm of everything sucking

A Braves/Reds game at a racetrack on Fox is truly for the worst people you know. Terrible vibes all around

@seidler.bsky.social and I talking/ranting about draft stuff open.spotify.com/episode/0HlJ...

I will be buying our editors a beer for this one. Go read it

The latest Heat Check podcast is live. In it @bspan2.bsky.social and I discuss recent top performers in MiLB plus a check in from @mdonodeo.bsky.social on the MLB draft. open.spotify.com/episode/4EeX...

Take your mind off everything going to shit and read some draft reports! www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

New York is so back (Mets exluded)

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Two horrible things happened in DC in the dead of night but if this big ugly bill passed by the House becomes law, I'm afraid it's going to kill a lot more than two people

working on stuff

Pope Francis never stopped being a Jesuit www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...

I'm tired nickzarariscontent.substack.com/p/the-ranger...

Fun news - I'm joining @baseballprospectus.com as a prospect writer for this draft cycle. I've learned a ton from reading their work, and getting to join the team is a dream come true. Excited to get to work!

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"

Way too early correlations! Looking at what happens when a batter changes their positioning, stance, or intercept point from '23 to '24

Wrote a lot about the Mets’ farm: over 50 reports on players, but also how these players are proxies for IDing philosophical changes over the recent years (both from the team and myself), and also musing about the plural of “Trackman.” Read it here: medium.com/@mdonodeo8/t...

Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

Every pitcher in 2022:

2024 is almost history and the global temperature forecast for the remaining few days is rock solid now. Time to wrap up. In most datasets, 2024 will be 0.1 degree C warmer than 2023. Also, 2024 will be the 1st individual year above the 1.5 degree Paris warming threshold in all datasets. (1/10)

Republicans spending the last year saying “who is actually making the decisions for Biden” just to let a South African billionaire determine everything they do is a great bit

It's been two days and I can't stop thinking about this

My band released an EP. I played drums and wrote a little. It’s horrible. Listen here: open.spotify.com/album/6wy6gu...

Posted a big thread on the Bad App, but the TLDR: - Willi Castro is solid and could be had in a trade - He's made legitimate PD improvements - There might be some in-gain power gains possible - It's probably a smart add for the Mets - Welcome back Tyrone Taylor x.com/mjd_analysis...

My episode with Secretary Pete is now up on the usual video sharing platform. So much good stuff in here, and I hope to get him back on in the future! youtu.be/F7oN6w6vEGI

Kikuchi has long been a plus stuff with average-ish location metrics guy, but needed to make some usage tweaks in Houston. After he did, he posted a 26 K-BB% with sub-3 peripherals and a 46% ground ball rate. There’s so much value there for 21 AAV without a QO

Makes sense that my first real post here is about what might be the best episode of my show, to date. We sat down, inside a Texas supermax prison, with a death-row inmate named Charles Flores. Who showed us his hidden world of fandom and fantasy football. And changed how we think: t.co/FvHQjUkG2U

Not mad at twitter oomfs who aren’t following me back on here but one day you will have to stand before god and account for how you lived your life on earth

Not sure what/when I'll be posting on here but wanted to give a little snippet of my work on Medium -this being the most recent. medium.com/@mdonodeo8/2...