Cecilia M. Tan WILBB

Migrating over to Bluesky at @whyilikebaseball.bsky.social ! Publications director SABR since 2011. Typical polymath baseball nerd/comma jockey.

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

Here’s what it’s like here when the Yankees win. Loudest rendition of “New York, New York” I’ve heard in a long time

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

Another thing I get to enjoy now that I’m not the editor: writing for the journal! This issue includes my article on women playing Banana Ball. Thanks @TheSavBananas for making some opportunities for women in professional ball! Eagerly awaiting @wpbl_official in August!

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

Oooohlook what I just got in the mail! Latest issue of the Baseball Research Journal is here! Now that I’m not the editor I get to enjoy a leisurely read of the contents. 😎

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

Volpe is magic.

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

@NamethatYank I was at Dave Righetti’s no hitter on July 4 1983! I was in high school and it was the most nervous I’d ever been in my life. So intense. It was wild being there.

[Charlie Meyer @wrldbaseballdev]

Just came back from an amazing 10 day trip from Kenya with the Angels At Bat group. Over this trip I learned that there are over 30+ school baseball programs in Kenya! Many of which started with the last 5 years. Every single day we visited a 1-2 programs.

[J.P. Hoornstra @jphoornstra]

It's been three years since this happened. Urshela remains the only professional athlete I've personally encountered in 20+ years to do this. Happy retirement to a real one. https://t.co/K4yyEv9Stb

[Women's Pro Baseball League @wpbl_official]

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[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

@PitchingNinja @tangotiger This was what the Atlantic League umps who first experimented with ABS said they want automated next: checked swing calls. The thing to do is measure a few thousand calls and see what umpires call each way, then base the rule on the most common outcomes, no?

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

@BananaBall_ @JoshTalevski @bleroy28 Legend!

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

corwin is at the game and I’m at home and we’re texting each other what we think John’s home run calls would be for players. On Goldschmidt, “Goldschmidt hammered that one!” “It’s Golden Hour!”

[Bryan Hoch ⚾️ @BryanHoch]

Tonight marks the first game for the John Sterling memorial patches, which will be worn on the Yankees' uniform sleeves for the remainder of the 2026 season.

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

The Hall of Fame remembers René Cárdenas, who passed away Sunday at the age of 96.

Beginning in 1958 when the Dodgers arrived on the West Coast, Cárdenas pioneered Spanish language baseball as a broadcast director and announcer for Los Angeles, Houston and Texas.

[Aaron Gleeman @AaronGleeman]

My big news: I've left The Athletic because they wanted me to stop covering the Twins.

I refused to give up my dream, so I'm betting on myself and returning to my independent roots.

I need your support to make it work. Join me and let's do this together: https://t.co/osUsyR3GwG

[Bob Nightengale @BNightengale]

RIP broadcaster René Cardenas, the first MLB Spanish broadcaster for the Dodgers in 1958, who was inducted into the Houston Astros Hall of Fame in 2024.

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

@vinceguerrieri Yeah Scully was also on his own scale, can’t even be measured with the others!

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

That is an absolutely wild stat. John goes up there with Eddie Layton and Bob Sheppard as an absolute Yankees institution.

[Ryan M. Spaeder @theaceofspaeder]

John Sterling called 28.7% of all games in #Yankees franchise history—including 47.5% of all postseason games.

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

(And then we took dad up to the party suite where 20 friends and relatives were hiding, waiting to surprise him. A great day in Tan family lore all around.)

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

Okay I have a bunch of John Sterling stories, he was a flirtatious gentleman at times but always a gentleman, and he made time for my Dad on my dad’s 70th birthday. The Yankees were playing at Tropicana Field. To surprise him my mom rented a party suite. While she got everyone..

[Cecilia M. Tan WILBB @whyilikebb]

Proceeds to first of all say a bunch of nice things about me to my father who was absolutely beaming and then wished him a very happy birthday and autographed his ticket (this was back when tickets were made of paper 😅). What a class act.