Mike Petriello

I want this so bad. We all want this so bad.

Making sense of Arraez's complex free-agent case This winter features what just might be the most divisive case we’ve seen for a free agent in years. We’re talking about Luis Arraez, who is either “the best contact hitter alive” or “a below-average ...

The most fascinating free agent of the winter isn't Pete Alonso or Bo Bichette.

It's Luis Arraez. We finally get to see how teams really value batting average.

On what he brings, and the one very obvious team that should sign him ...

--> www.mlb.com/news/underst...

I'm leaning 10 also, which stunned me.

OK, it's done, it's not 9000 but

(I'll publish it eventually)

oh buddy, you have come to extremely the right place.

a man in a suit and tie with the words tommy want wingy written below him ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words tommy want wingy written below him

4 more hours of tender, then wing only

I get why you say it, but it does feel a little weird to be pro-Bonds and anti-Arod in the same tweet.

for sure. robbed.

yeah, scroll down to the Seaver one

and, as for the premise of it being a 'weak ballot,' and I grant the new-comers are not eye catching.

in 2013, the BBWAA elected no one. There's 10 names (and counting) who have since made it in. There's lots of ways to be great.

www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_2...

This was really good

What does future hold for starting pitchers and the HOF? On Tuesday, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) completed its fifth consecutive Hall of Fame ballot without electing a starting pitcher, dating back to when Roy Halladay and Mike Muss...

and, also, from last year, how we simply have to re-think how we decide if SP are HOF --> www.mlb.com/news/how-the...

An example:
- Scherzer has 71% as many wins as Tom Seaver ... who himself had 75% as many as Walter Johnson
- Scherzer has 62% as many IP as Seaver .. who had 81% as many as WJ

If there's a particular player in the Hall that you don't support being there, well, there's at least a decent chance that the player was put in by the Veterans Committees, not the writers.

These pitchers are 'missing' from the Hall of Fame A few weeks ago, we looked into Hall of Fame voting trends over the decades, and we came away with the following three takeaways, specifically regarding pitchers: • Of all pitchers who ever played, 1....

2) An entire decade of pitchers born in the 1970 are 'missing' from the Hall, as voters wrestled with the PED backlog and also the change in stats from 4-man rotation to 5-man

www.mlb.com/news/missing...

Is the Hall leaving out too many players? With the release of the 2021 Hall of Fame ballot earlier this month, our thoughts turned to the institution of the Hall itself, and particularly this question: Are enough players being inducted? Or to...

Just resurfacing some old work for when people argue the myth that the Baseball Hall of Fame is "too big and easy to get into" now, when the opposite is in fact true.

1) From 2020, proof that it's actually *harder* than ever to get in: www.mlb.com/news/hall-of...

36? what?

yet another data point that the entire ethos of this administration beyond grift is "make it 1954 again by prayer or force"

12 intriguing players who might join free-agent pool soon Friday at 5 p.m. ET marks the deadline for teams to tender a contract for 2026 to players under club control who haven't already signed contracts for the upcoming season. If the club opts not to do so...

Happy wing day, everyone

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Making sense of Arraez's complex free-agent case This winter features what just might be the most divisive case we’ve seen for a free agent in years. We’re talking about Luis Arraez, who is either “the best contact hitter alive” or “a below-average ...

The most fascinating free agent of the winter isn't Pete Alonso or Bo Bichette.

It's Luis Arraez. We finally get to see how teams really value batting average.

On what he brings, and the one very obvious team that should sign him ...

--> www.mlb.com/news/underst...

bsky's crappy video player froze this for me 3 seconds before the clip ended but you know what, i'm okay with that

"things I said watching Deion cover Jerry Rice in 1992" for $400, Alex

Thank you, Mr. Roddenberry

Look, No. 15 still is good advice.

No one can stop me from using smelly foot for Andruw Jones

wait, I have children

various colored markers it is

do I even own a pen

Oh cool, I guess they weren't messing with me

ah, I will reserve being furious for .. well, probably soon.

wait, maybe i'm confusing "this is what it looks like" with "this man is sending a blank ballot?"

this is a real facebook-ass ballot, anyway.