Ian Malinowski

NYC based TB fan, fiddler, and editor at

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A longform explainer that doubles both as a playoff preview and a next-five-years preview. https://t.co/21Ce4Nbkva

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Some dumb editor added the combined part probably... https://t.co/wkok8awC2Q

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@SRQman89 @MLB @RaysBaseball I really like that camera angle.

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The Trop used to have the best straight back camera angle in baseball. Seems like it's gone and we're offset now that the broadcast is being run by @mlb. Deeply disappointing, @RaysBaseball.

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Oh haha this game is in STL, ignore me please.

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@mike_petriello This is super cool and/but also a thing I learned this year is that frame rates are pretty context-dependent. Any chance we can get baserunner and count filters on this leaderboard?

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@Solomonr_31 @draysbay Stuff metrics LOVE his slider. He's not a one pitch wonder. Whatever the problem is it's more interesting than that.

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It's not just the Yankees with the "torpedo bats."

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Junior Caminero normally swings his own model with Cooperstown Bat Co., the JC13M, but stepped to the plate today with a new B45 model. Game photo - @RaysMetrics

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@RaysMetrics Now tell me how many times he dotted that corner...

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@CodifyBaseball The pitch clock makes baseball less exciting.

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@draysbay Manfred for City Council.

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@Steve_Kinsella1 @Homein22 I remember that game for @darby_robinson grumbling about how the Rays couldn't hit this chump and me feeling gaslit by the stats because he didn't look like a chump.

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@RobNoverraz @draysbay American theater industry too.

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Honestly I can't tell if that was a bang or a whimper. #RaysUp

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@TriciaWhitaker It's been really great to have you here. You're the best. Mean that.

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You don't have to like someone to give them hundreds of millions of dollars.

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@RBunikiewicz @rekrabmb Basic criteria is "is he good" and "does he have the tools to attack batters in multiple ways" but noodling on how to define those. First pass slam dunk is Griffin Jax, though he's already failed at it once. Most interesting name is Dedniel Núñez but he's hurt now.

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@RBunikiewicz Injury criteria is too hard to query but I can totally "cheat" a bit and include MiLB starting experience. Good call.

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@RBunikiewicz I'm writing a thing on this now and first pass at a criteria has Morejon at the top of my list. No way the both of us are wrong.

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@RyanX860 @RaysMetrics I love Birdsong and think he'd be really expensive to trade for. I wonder if BLowe gets the conversation going.

Not that the Rays need to be trading good hitters for young pitchers right now...