Kyle Jennison

It looks like Andres Munoz has lost 2-3 ticks on the fastball avg. velo since ~June. I doubt it's cause for alarm at this point (the stuff and the outcomes are still outstanding) - but I do wonder about fatigue down the stretch and into October.

RAYS PROSPECT BOB SEYMOUR REPORTEDLY CALLED UP THIS IS A BIG DEAL

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This would make more sense as a rate stat than a raw count. E.g., there was a related metric posted recently that showed COL and CLE left the fewest and second fewest RISP (by raw count), which you might think is good; but further investigation shows they had the fewest PAs with RISP to begin with.

Great point - the BABIP definitely isn't sustainable, nor is the 3.4% HR/FB. Savant has his xwOBA over 100 points higher than his wOBA, so definitely getting some lucky batted-ball results. But he's still doing things well above and beyond the luck - like that career-low BB/9. Everything clicking!

One of my niche interests 😝:

Jose Ramirez has now tied his 7th best season in WAR, meaning from this point forward this season he’ll be adding to both his WAR7 and total WAR in Jay Jaffe’s JAWS Hall of Fame framework 🔥

🧵 When the government announces that it will fire people for producing numbers that the government doesn't like, here is how our institutions should respond. (Whether they do is another story.)

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The way ICE agents are dressing and conducting themselves nationwide is a moral outrage and I sincerely hope those involved at all levels of the agency are broadly identified and face social and legal accountability, individually and collectively, in the years to come.

Jose Ramirez continues to climb the Cleveland franchise's career leaderboards - now top 5 in most major categories.

We are in new territory with Trump’s latest trade letter, threatening a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1
—The US runs a rare trade surplus with Brazil, so there’s no deficit to fix
—Trump says these duties are explicitly over political concerns, not economic ones

DEI all-star

The AL Central briefly holding four playoff spots in mid-May did... not age well. 😂😭

Since May 15th:
Detroit 29-19 (.604)
Minnesota 19-27 (.413)
Kansas City 19-28 (.404)
Cleveland 16-30 (.348)

It's like a half-season repeat of their 2024:

Up through April 21st: 7-13 (.350)
April 22nd - August 17th: 63-40 (.612)
August 18th onward: 12-27 (.308)

Is there a consensus theory for why Julio Rodriguez' power continues to regress?

Over his four years in MLB, I see no major changes in his swing decisions, contact rates, BB%/K%, etc. - but his ISO/SLG have fallen off a cliff, and his exit velocity stats have as well.

Playing with injury or what?

Another way that Zohran shows the way forward is he has spent zero time lingering on smears. Part of what killed Corbyn, for example, is that he has to publicly address every fake scandal and it drove long media cycles. The left needs to move past apologizing and constantly justifying itself.

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

Amazing how good Altuve has been for so long.

And between him and Biggio the Astros have had nearly continuous HOF-level 2B play for like 85-90% of the last 35 years. 😆

Phillies made a hype video for their ball boy Adam, who is on the ballot for the ball crew at the MLB All-Star Game. Hell yeah!

Not nearly as important as the concrete real-world cruelties this administration renders daily - but amateurish correspondence like this (random capitalization, exclamation marks, childlike writing) reminds us how cartoonishly stupid and incapable these people are.

Over the last 30 days, the Cleveland Guardians are the worst offense in MLB by a considerable margin.

.198/.269/.321, 66 wRC+, -0.6 fWAR, 69 runs scored in 26 games (2.7 per game)

Brandon Woodruff returns to MLB regular season play for the first time since September 2023 today.

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

Pack the Court. If we are serious about the defense of these rights, we pack the Court. Simple as that. They pack it back, we pack it again. We do it until we reach consensus on long-term reforms to the judiciary. I don't know what it's going to take for people to get it.

The line "20,000 years of this, seven more to go" from Burnham's "That Funny Feeling" still hits my existential dread neural pathways like a freight train.

Ben Rice is now only 3 games played away from Catcher position eligibility in Yahoo leagues.

Detained immigrant's pregnancy fails while in ICE custody - Nashville Banner ICE's treatment of undocumented immigrants raises concerns as a woman's experience highlights what she described as inadequate medical care while in detention.

A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care.

She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor.

This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged. nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

Good god