Nate Handy

Doing homework on unpopular dynasty baseball prospects. Join me at Chopping it up with my guy The Rookie on the pod.

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Read @BenBadler's write-ups. See what glimpses of video you can find. Put them in a video 20th to most preferred. My 2026 J15 top 20:

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@TJStats How come no one ever says a site whereupon baseball can be watched when they answer these kinds of questions?

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@nelson7742 @LibertyCappy Preach

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@ZachyChan @jayhaykid Coors isn't a home run park. It's a BABIP park, and fly balls have a lower BABIP than ground balls. Flyballs are great there, as long as that aren't getting hit too hard and you have rangy OFers to cover the second largest OF in baseball.

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@DNVR_Rockies Who is the 13th hitter?

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@lorenzomedidg @AramLeighton8 Not hating. Just curious :)

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@AramLeighton8 Can't say I imagine much game planning going on in ST, but this would be another sequence I'd try vs him. Get those eyes big on a two strike offspeed the one time in the AB he thinks he can let those levers go.

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@AramLeighton8 Don't get me wrong, as a Rockies fan I'll take all the good possible. Definitely pulling for the guy.

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@AramLeighton8 Don't hate the theory, but is it feasible? Seemed to get peppered there, justifiably so. Kinda been a forever problem with him and, at least the old Veen, wasn't too keen on trying to improve that element/the inputs from others. 🤷

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@Upper_Beck @DGinTB Infinity

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@DGinTB @Upper_Beck My team is 1000% times better

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first-year analytics intern. You just got finished reading some Sabermetric historian—Bill James, probably. You’re gonna be convinced of that ’til next month when you get to the latest Pitching+ update, and then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how SIERA is the only "true" measure of skill because it accounts for the complexity of the batted ball profile to CSW rates.

You have no thoughts of your own. You’re just looking at a movement plot and trying to sound smart. You’re gonna realize in a couple of years that you spent all that time calculating "Expected FIP" based on a "Skill-Interactive" ghost, when you could’ve just looked at the K/BB ratio and seen the whole picture.

The sad thing is, in about five years, you’re gonna realize you’re not that bright. You’re gonna be talkin’ about Skenes’ "Expected ERA" while the real experts are just looking at a box score and realizing that if a guy doesn't walk people and he misses bats, he's gonna be fine.

You dropped $100,000 on a Data Science degree to learn how to run a regression on a pitcher's "luck," when you could’ve gotten the same predictive value for five cents in late charges by looking at a K/BB leader board at the public library.

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@ElijahEv8 @Swiftsdatdude @The_CallUpPod @JustBB_Media You just saw what pitching at elevation and then not did to Dollander. But these rookies are all gonna magically beat being a Rockies pitcher? Share your drugs

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@Dukeswasmyguy He is not 5'8. 6' is more believable. I just don't think his player page has been updated since he signed.

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@DNVR_Rockies Ben Shields 🤫

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Edward Florentino hit 10 A-ball HRs in 2025. Here they are:

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@nut_history You got a list of all the immaculate innings?

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@S_U_Network Mitch Hedberg