2026 Season Preview: New York Mets
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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I really enjoyed this piece. It's set to basic, so you can read it even without a sub if you're logged in
The Angels Invent the Anti-Extension
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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TA: Jordan Westburg and the Ghost of IL Trips Still To Come
by Craig Goldstein (@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com) and Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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The final two paragraphs from my essay for this year’s Baseball Prospectus annual.
PECTOA 2026: PECOTA Superlatives
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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this the fourth year i've done PECOTA superlatives since creating it, and every year i strive to make it stranger
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wrote about the tigers/mlb's big-brained decision to lowball a back-to-back cy young winner in arbitration, and foreseeable consequences
Morning, all. Since the offseason is winding down, @ginnysearle.bsky.social, @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com and I took a moment to look at which teams forgot to turn in their homework.
Also, I made up a woman named Marge who's going to die in the next eight months, and felt bad for her.
A Giant Shadow
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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Kyle Tucker, The Culmination of Dodgers Baseball
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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TA: A Change in the Weathers
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social) and Michael Donodeo (mdonodeo.bsky.social)
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as someone who's been waiting on the winds of winter for more than half my life that thr interview is really something
it'd be bold if the astros end up pushing into 2026 with (more or less) their current roster, or get worse like they did from 2024>25. dumb, but bold
![Listen to me. We don’t have much time. Rob Manfred is the reason this is all happening. He has compromising information on the most senior executives of the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers, and he’s not afraid to use it. I’m talking like, really heinous stuff, the sort of shit these guys would just never, ever come back from. No, not crimes, obviously, way worse (meaning, more damaging to future job prospects). He’s got pictures of all these guys in off-brand athleisure. I’m not even talking lulu, Manfred’s got these guys dead to rights in discount-color separates from Target, Kohl’s, and, even, in the case of one particularly embarrassed mid-40s white man, Old Navy.
I know, shocking. So, you wanna know who the Manfred Man is? Every single one of these gentlemen, and when the commissioner says we can’t have another year with four two-game sweeps in the Wild Card Series, well, they’re yours.
[A door bangs open]
HEL-lo commissioner, how are you? Us? Oh, we were just talking about the 2025 Postseason Picture, presented by Adobe, the best way to graphically represent and understand the road to the 2025 World Series, presented by Capital One and exclusively on FOX. What a dazzling bit of success for the Wild Card Series, almost as big as the STRAUSS logos featured prominently on every batting helmet!
[Editor’s Note: This introduction was written before the Dodgers game finished last night, obviously disproving the hypothesis in the introduction. Rest assured, BP does not claim that Rob Manfred pressured teams to lose to bring balance to the new playoff format, and the fact that a five-page spread was published this morning depicting various Los Angeles executives in ill-fitting Kirkland Signature windbreakers incorrectly monogrammed with the middle initial in the center is clearly coincidental. BP asks that you respect the families of those mortified executives at this time.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m2tdiw6yphtre6p6m6skgzo6/bafkreifgzvg4xt3wabpvhyl2a4eqx7zasll5uxbxegck3fmmemqkol63g4)
the wild card round rarely saw Game 3s, but this year there are three of them. @ginnysearle.bsky.social is on the case (and previews our ALWC G3 matchups:
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2025 Postseason Primer
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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Trade Deadline Winners/Losers
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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Transaction Analysis: Don’t Tell Jim Crane There Are No Second Acts In American Life
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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it was controversial, but i think the angels holding onto ohtani this trade deadline will prove to be the best move when they get back to october and re-sign him over the winter
sometimes a subhed is just for you
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you get it
in which i explain why i don't think the red sox will move devers away from 3b soon (john henry). thanks to craig for the extremely good/dumb headline
he had a wild career, i spent a long time on his b-ref page too lol
ha, big compliment, thank you:p
i always have fun doing the superlatives
if you haven't already, please take the time to read and vote for your preferred articles for the 2025 SABR awards. It's a big deal to the nominees, and the pieces are very much worth your time. I'm including the link on our site, but you can vote at FanGraphs, SABR, or the IBWAA, too:
the number of times i've had "i'm working late / 'cause i'm an editor" play in my head
I analyzed a bunch of transactions today for BP. First, I compared Gleyber Torres to a lightly salted cauliflower steak and broke down exactly how Teoscar Hernández's money is arriving and being spent. (Mad at myself at forgetting anti-deferred money in the form of silver certificates.)
