Mike Petriello

Obama, defensive coordinator

hm, no plans to, but they also won the World Series 7 years ago, so it's not *quite* so grim

but maybe they'll change my mind in a few months

Today's my 10-year anniversary at @mlb.com, apparently. Wild! Fortunate! Thank you for reading.

Fastball velo (4sm/sinker) in the 2026 WBC so far

baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast-sea...

must be

clearly didn't get the joke when that company offered a job

How can a 119-loss team find its way? Here are 6 quick fixes The 2025 Rockies lost 119 games and were outscored by a Modern Era-record 424 runs. It was legitimately one of the weakest seasons in baseball history, and they're universally projected for another la...

The Rockies lost 119 games. They'll probably be in last place again.

But for the first time since 1999, they've hired from outside to run baseball ops. What can you look for right now to see some evidence of long-overdue modernization?

Some ideas:

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

I am not sure the world would survive a 7 game Tampa Bay / Buffalo series after watching that debacle tonight

but I want it

trust me, you are not acrruing interest

This is something like the best moment in BU basketball history

(do not fact check me, all I remember is when we'd go to the tourney as the 16 and get outscored by 1's point guard)

Noted always competitive 1v16 round of March madness

This is the funniest possible start to this game, love to see it

you can do it now. go look in search under "flags."

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

still can't believe that with 600 increasingly awful Super Bowl AI commercials, no one went and called Allen Iverson for the obvious bit

trying to be optimistic there, because he went through a Vesia situation that didn't get nearly as much attention because it was in the WS.

30 teams, 9 tiers: Where does your club fit in '26? Our annual tradition is back. Each spring, we look forward to the upcoming season by breaking down the 30 teams into eight or nine somewhat-subjectively defined tiers, grouping together those in simil...

The 9 tiers of baseball for 2026, the annual tradition continues

get mad!

--> www.mlb.com/news/tiers-o...

I keep seeing shock that guys like Giolito aren't signed and I guess with how thin some rotations are, i get it, but also I think this is a pretty simple "what stats do you value" thing

old-school: 10-4, 3.41

more advanced:
5.06 xERA
5.14 DRA
K% drop from 26 to 19.7
missed end of season w/ elbow

"is that Nick Allen's music?!"

ooh

and to think, just an hour ago, i would have thought no force on earth could get me to tune into this particular event

On @pablo.show I talked about the limits of generative AI, and why the brainstorming process—which LLMs mostly eliminate, imo—is fundamental to doing *good* work.

30 teams, 9 tiers: Where does your club fit in '26? Our annual tradition is back. Each spring, we look forward to the upcoming season by breaking down the 30 teams into eight or nine somewhat-subjectively defined tiers, grouping together those in simil...

The 9 tiers of baseball for 2026, the annual tradition continues

get mad!

--> www.mlb.com/news/tiers-o...

not quite true about hitters. It's a good HR park, not an elite one. But it is an elite hitting park because they had to make the outfield so big to prevent excess homers

(Published 2020)

Yes! This is "the Coors field hangover."

www.nytimes.com/athletic/164...

yes! very well studied and is a huge factor.

Also how I felt on my trip of Europe two summers ago

Writing about the Rockies

Bees are legally fish in California, court rules. Here’s why and what led to it A 1970 act explicitly protected “fish.” Now, it includes bees.

did a bee write th—SHIT

www.sacbee.com/news/califor...

NBC hires Jason Benetti as lead MLB play-by-play announcer Benetti has been the TV voice of the Detroit Tigers since 2024.

Love to see it

sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.