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Once again, the Rangers are signaling they won't do much spending this offseason. That would be a big mistake.
Here's @zcrizer.bsky.social on why Texas needs to operate like the big market team it is... because its roster isn't equipped to survive anything less:
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
Hey, SABR hasn't put both its feet into bluesky yet (I know, a lot of its people have) but this is a good time to remind you that the SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards are open for nominations.
When you have a few minutes, please nominate some of your favorite baseball research from 2025.
Today is my first day as a sports writer at @cnn.com. I'll be covering all sports, not just baseball (but also baseball, see you back at the ballpark come spring!) and I want to dig in especially on the weird, the niche, the nontraditional, and youth sports. So get at me with stories in that realm.
17.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 479 🔁 19 💬 45 📌 1
A January 2000 newspaper column with the following quote: “This union will agree to a salary cap about the same time Donald Trump gets elected president.”
Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
13.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 444 🔁 123 💬 9 📌 28Hannah is leaving The Bandwagon for a really great reason -- she's taking on a richly deserved full-time sports writing role.
It won't be the same, but I'm going to announce a new cadence for the newsletter soon.
For now, though, say congrats to @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social and look forward to what she's going to do next.
11.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hannah is leaving The Bandwagon for a really great reason -- she's taking on a richly deserved full-time sports writing role.
It won't be the same, but I'm going to announce a new cadence for the newsletter soon.
Direct response to the Emmanuel Clase and Luis L. Ortiz allegations from MLB.
Doesn’t totally close off these individual actor lanes but certainly makes them less lucrative.
I just absolutely cannot with the Rockies.
They had imminently qualified candidates in the interview process. Nothing is mind-boggling with them anymore, but how do you land on Paul DePodesta?
Here's my ranking of this year's top 50 MLB free agents: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ran...
06.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 4
Geese covering an FM radio classic, as a treat. youtu.be/wnlV03_iFcI?...
06.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Bandwagon wrap-up of an epic World Series is here, from me and @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social. bandwagon.substack.com/p/90-never-i...
03.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The World Series is over. @zcrizer.bsky.social and I wrote about it at The Bandwagon.
First, a little more on the Dodgers winning open.substack.com/pub/bandwago...
The Bandwagon wrap-up of an epic World Series is here, from me and @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social. bandwagon.substack.com/p/90-never-i...
03.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
For @theguardian.com: If this is what a broken sport feels like, don’t fix it.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Really hard to overstate how much Yoshinobu Yamamoto's standing in the game just changed.
He's the league's ace now.
Game 6: W, Yamamoto
Game 7: W, Yamamoto
Miguel Rojas 🤝 Rajai Davis
02.11.2025 03:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is his chance to cement himself as poor man’s Dansby, gotta let the flow show.
02.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dodgers look like a team full of 9 hitters (derogatory)
Blue Jays look like a team full of 9 hitters (complimentary)
Worth a pop as Gausman starts with four splitters:
blogs.fangraphs.com/the-month-of...
New Bandwagon! Thoughts on Trey Yesavage, Shohei Ohtani's potential outfield debut and more ahead of World Series Game 6. bandwagon.substack.com/p/89-how-wil...
31.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Over at @dmagazine.bsky.social, wrote about why pursuing a singular team hitting philosophy is a fool’s errand in this era of MLB. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
31.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Confident this is the hardest a cello has ever rocked. spotify.link/hESqIWTSUXb
31.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every team that isn't in the World Series could take a lesson from the ones that are. In the Rangers' case, it's paying close attention to how Toronto has approached hitting.
Smart stuff by the ultra smart @zcrizer.bsky.social:
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
I think I watched Remember the Titans alone at least a dozen times.
31.10.2025 01:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blue Jays up, Dodgers on the brink.
It’s Bandwagon live reaction time. Join us! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
We, as a society, have not solved much recently. But take heart: Blake Snell no longer gets pulled too early in World Series games.
30.10.2025 02:14 — 👍 50 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Choosing to believe my subscription money specifically funded this collision of interests. www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
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