ZM

Humans are born resilient

[ZM @Shadowxc]

Next year 🩵

#LADodgers

[ZM @Shadowxc]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[#GALLEG🌎sFAM @gallegos_fam]

If I send you this, it means I expect better from you

[ZM @Shadowxc]

❤️

[Hina @nagekinohina]

NMB's Chutte Gyutte Gyutto went a bit viral for a tweet bullying a couple of male fans performing it. But the NMB girls came out to defend them.

Mikana:Ours is just as cute as theirs!
Shin:Here's the original, nice to meet you 🩷
Momoka:I'm really am a genius (for writing this)

[ZM @Shadowxc]

WTF IS WILL DOING TODAY

[ZM @Shadowxc]

He is still our MVP no matter what

[cindy @Djodgers]

I’m just sad about Yama. A team finally got to him. It was bound to happen. He couldn’t do everything on his own. I’m still so eternally proud of him.

[ZM @Shadowxc]

Damn this game makes me so anxious 😣😵‍💫

[ZM @Shadowxc]

Go Dodgers!
#ITFDB

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The best pitcher in baseball refuses to lift weights, warms up by throwing a javelin, and scouts hitters with a paper notebook. The Dodgers paid him $325 million and then hired his sensei too.

The notebook makes sense once you see the rest of his system.

Yamamoto trains under Osamu Yada, who has never told him to touch a barbell. Javelin throws instead of long toss. Handstands, back bridges, breathing work. The Dodgers studied the routine, decided they couldn't improve it, and hired Yada rather than change Yamamoto. During free agency, one team's recruiting gift to him was a team-logoed javelin, just to prove how deep their research went.

The results broke baseball's assumptions. Last November he threw 96 pitches in World Series Game 6, then came out of the bullpen and closed Game 7 the very next day.

Now look at the dugout. Every MLB club runs Hawk-Eye, a dozen cameras per stadium tracking spin, tilt, and swing path on every single pitch. Yamamoto has all of it on an iPad ten feet away.

He writes by hand anyway.

Japanese player development bakes this in. Kids keep baseball journals from little league on, charting every at-bat in their own words. The logic survives contact with analytics. League data tells you what a hitter does on average. A pitcher's own notes capture what that hitter did against him tonight, pitch by pitch, while the at-bat is still fresh. By the third time through the order, he's working from a document no analytics department can generate.

Mookie Betts watched this for two seasons. This spring he started throwing javelins too.

Baseball built the most surveilled playing field in sports. Its best October pitcher still trusts the notebook in his back pocket more.

[jplashkes.eth @JackiePlashkes]

Nothing exposes how little people know about baseball faster than saying the Dodgers only win because of money

Let’s check who came up clutch in the NLDS

Max Muncy was on the verge of quitting baseball to sell insurance 9 years ago

The Dodgers signed Andy Pages as a 16 year old international free agent

Mr. October Kiki Hernandez. The guy who disappears during the regular season but turns into a postseason legend makes $5.5M a year

MLB payroll rankings of the remaining playoff teams

Guardians: 29th
Rays: 28th
White Sox: 27th
Brewers: 19th
Dodgers: 1st

You’re a moron if you think the Dodgers are only successful because of their payroll. Go ask the Yankees and Mets how spending money guarantees championships

The Dodgers spend a ton of money, nobody is denying that. They’re the best organizations in baseball at scouting (top farm system), developing talent, and finding players other teams overlooked

Back to the NLCS💙 The haters are sick

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

EIGHT MORE WINS.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT BUT IT IS

[ZM @Shadowxc]

How can we have such a cool VI system this year but every single T-shirt is so ugly, I'm so confused

[ZM @Shadowxc]

GOOOOOO DODGERS!!!!!

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE NLCS BOUND!

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

Dodgers win Game 4! #NLDS

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

Dodgers win Game 3! #NLDS

[ZM @Shadowxc]

My MVP

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

10 Ks from Yoshinobu! #NLDS

[ZM @Shadowxc]

Yoshi!! My ACE!!!😭😭😭

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

Yoshinobu masterclass in Game 3. #NLDS

[ZM @Shadowxc]

😌

[jm @jeaneri]

this is where we are folks. sad. to say the least