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Congratulations to all winners of the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards!

@michaelrosen.bsky.social of @fangraphs.com
@richstaff.bsky.social of @defector.com
@rjandersonwrites.com of CBS Sports
@depstein1983.bsky.social of @baseballprospectus.com

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yeaaaaaaaaaaa

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Introducing the BP Top 101!

COMMENT: Can we just stick to baseball in this space? I'm paying for scouting reports and entertainment, not politics. Craig Goldstein: No.

just a reminder of the official Baseball Prospectus position on this stuff

marketing email from Greyhound with subject line "Want a weekend adventure to brag about?"

NO

2026 Prospects: Washington Nationals Top Prospects | Baseball Prospectus They're starting from a ways back, but the new front office has a chance to make some quick gains.

2026 Prospects: Washington Nationals Top Prospects
by Michael Donodeo (@mdonodeo.bsky.social) and BP Prospect Staff
www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...

2026 Prospects: New York Yankees Top Prospects | Baseball Prospectus Even without the depth that has lately become common, the Yankees' system offers plenty of intrigue.

as a reminder, our prices are going up on 1/1, which means you can lock in the current rate right now and get access to things like the Yankees top prospects list, from @mdonodeo.bsky.social, which we just published this morning:

- my mom told me to post this here

Broad trade thoughts:

- It’s fine
- Both contracts bad
- Nimmo contract has more pathways to being reallllyyyy bad even if presently better bat
- Righty bat good
- Semien should trade contact for pulled fly balls
- Semien’s floor dependent on defensive regression
- AJ Ewing stock up probably

Score bug reading "Hoffman / Canzone"

depends on the night tbh

Trying to escape everything going on by watching the Mets fumble a playoff spot, presented by ChatGPT

Average Wonder Years concert

2 Pennsylvania Headline published an hour apart

GOP has time to draft "Charlie Kirk Day" Legislation, but doesn't have time to pass our (now 3 month late) budget to fund our schools.

what if we buy back the guns, melt them down, then use the metal for building material for affordable housing and parks

Induced vertical break, spin efficiency, seam-shifted wake—what do these buzzwords mean for a pitch trajectory? Explore using my Statcast-based pitch visualizer (physics modeling based on work of @pobguy.bsky.social). Updated daily with new pitching data!

gabes135.github.io/pitch-graphic/

Melodic Hardcore

Lmk if you have any melodic hardcore recommendations, I love this stuff but this is the extent of my knowledge lol open.spotify.com/playlist/5Zy...

Carillo and Pintaro?

Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.

The Call-Up: Jonah Tong | Baseball Prospectus The Mets are looking for a(nother) spark in their rotation.

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Statcast Search Baseball Savant

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David Peterson goes 8 scoreless anyway

The year is 2089. An ant the size of a curio cabinet who is hooked up to what scientists are calling "the world's most racist computer" is president. Water is unavailable but humans have adapted by purifying motor oil. Joe Flacco has been announced starting quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Call-Up: Nolan McLean | Baseball Prospectus The former two-way player from Oklahoma State dropped the bat, and picked up plenty of bad swings against.

The Call-Up: Nolan McLean
by Michael Donodeo (@mdonodeo.bsky.social) and Timothy Jackson (@timjacksonsays.bsky.social)
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I went to high school three blocks or so from here, walking past heavily armed guards at the government printing office most days, especially when there was some sort of national security threat.

This is just ridiculous

Unsurprisingly, batter's swings get more accurate the more they see a pitcher. These are observed rather than modeled values, hence the occasional weird values the third time through likely due to sample sizes.

The SEPTA cuts aren’t the worst thing happening right now but man they’re a microcosm of everything sucking

Taking a guy who had a midseason velo bump and hoping it sticks was more or less the (successful) strategy they employed signing Manaea pre-mechanics change

I think NASCAR’s EVs are only in the prototype stage rn