zaria refusing to acknowledge that (1) tatum has changed and grown in ways zaria can’t fathom and (2) assuming and insisting that tatum will be stuck in this pain and loss forever, just like zaria is
statcast released some cool batted ball metrics today. 4 of the 6 pitchers I identified in 2025 as having ideal sinkers were top 12 in forcing hitters to swing over the ball.
They recover well after putting runners on base, they allow fly balls and as a result home runs at lower rate, and they typically run lower than league average BABIPs
most cucked sports fan base in history. not a single owner could “spend themselves into bankruptcy” in any of our lifetimes. if you are not actually a bot paid for by MLB, you might as well be
I am going to say this many times on the podcast over the next year, but I may as well put it here for posterity:
If an MLB team has debt, it is because the owner has intentionally amassed it to lessen the tax burden on their other business interests
I swear every single time I do some kind of search for batters with both good discipline/contact and a high Swing+, I see Kevin McGonigle and ESPECIALLY Miguel Vargas at the top of the list.
Those two are going to dominate the AL Central for the next couple years
A week from today I’ll be starting part time with the Pirates as a Data Scientist! Happy with all my time at BPro, incredibly grateful to them for the opportunity, and excited to see things from a team point of view