Michael Schatz

I need some fuzzy string matching. Chevrolet is hard to spell 😂

There aren't many 80 grade humans in baseball. Will was one of them. Fortunate our paths crossed.

Doesn't this require a look at win probability instead of wOBA?

Two incredible storytellers lost in the same day in Uecker and Lynch. So many different ways to tell a great story.

My cousin, who is head brewer at a local spot in Montana had this to say:

Movie of the year

I refuse to accept that this guys name isn't Amelia Bearhart

It's true! More trades than expected for sure. Think the free agent signings are falling into that post-meeting period with still a high amount.

@baseball-reference.com FYI, been getting a lot of gateway timeouts on the site today.

I wouldn't count on it. I looked into it last week. Pretty steady decline into the new year.

Thoughts on just leaning into the region and putting it on a Portuguese roll?

A graph showing frequency of MLB trades and free agent signings in the days around the winter meetings. Shows a peak on and after the end of the meetings.

Let's take a look at trade and free agency activity around the Winter Meetings. That last day of meetings really ups the urgency on the trade front. Little more of a steady build and decline for FA signings.