Jeff Zimmerman

Steven Miller glitched

When this sentence is written to describe your team, the season did not go as planned:

"That’s how the club acquired its top bat of 2025, as Spencer Horwitz came to the Pirates in a trade..."

Peru, my cousin played volleyball there, small world

One of the top rodeo colleges in the country.

OK, I've seen teams sending some of their guys who missed time to the winter leagues instead of the AFL. I was wondering if they think the competition is tougher.

Dickhead In Sanchez Jersey Turns Out To Be Mark Sanchez

Dickhead In Sanchez Jersey Turns Out To Be Mark Sanchez

@jjcoop36.bsky.social Have you seen how the winter league pitching compares to the various MLB levels?

A made-up example: Dominican League pitching is the equivalent of AA pitching.

Of all the alcoholic USC QBs I thought Lienart would hit rock bottom first. Tip of the hat to you Matt

Untitled document Per pitch metrics Stuff+ from Fangraphs (all 3 values) BotStuff from Fangraphs (all 3 values) Velocity Spin Effective spin Extension Induced vertical break SwStr% GB% Ball% Zone% Overall stats ERA ...

My big study for The Process this year will be on individual pitch traits and how they matter to overall stats. The value I will look at are in this sheet (link) and second skeet.

What am I missing? Once I start diving in I'm not going back.

Thanks for your time.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Halftime viewing: Watch Cam Skattebo block on this 4th and 1

The internet failed me. I see it's 51% and will give it a try

It's barely rye, 13% rye. It's in the class as 4🌹(regular) and Jack Daniels Rye.

Different class of whiskeys.

Per pitch metrics:
Stuff+ from Fangraphs (all 3 values)
BotStuff from Fangraphs (all 3 values)
Velocity
Spin
Effective spin
Extension
Induced vertical break
SwStr%
GB%
Ball%
Zone%

Overall stats:
ERA
WHIP
xFIP
SIERA
K/9, K%
B/9, BB%

Untitled document Per pitch metrics Stuff+ from Fangraphs (all 3 values) BotStuff from Fangraphs (all 3 values) Velocity Spin Effective spin Extension Induced vertical break SwStr% GB% Ball% Zone% Overall stats ERA ...

My big study for The Process this year will be on individual pitch traits and how they matter to overall stats. The value I will look at are in this sheet (link) and second skeet.

What am I missing? Once I start diving in I'm not going back.

Thanks for your time.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Things just got real ...

#1 Bulliet 10 year. 91.2 proof. $50. This continues to beat all challengers. The nose and taste just blew away the competition. It's just more than the rest.

It's becoming tougher to find and I'll be on the lookout for a replacement.

#3 and #2 were close.I was splitting pubic hairs here and could swap based on my mood that day.

#3 Rittenhouse BiB, $24, 100 proof. At least 4 year. Sweet because of some corn added. But then it's less spicy.

#2 Templeton 6 year (bottle kill). 91.5 proof. $36, Great 95/5 spicy rye taste.

Easy #4 today, Green River Rye, 95 proof, $36 MSRP

Is not bad in any way, just didn't stack up. No nose, worst taste. I'll be bringing it for a bit.

A little rye blind this afternoon as I'm about to kill off a couple bottles.

I saw the most Kansas food order for lunch ever ... asked for both ranch and Dorothy Lynch dressing with his salad

a close up of a squirrel eating a peanut ALT: a close up of a squirrel eating a peanut

Found'em

Lessons I learned from the 2025 fantasy baseball season.

Which one?

A first for me, a contract clause for a mutual option. What a waste of ink and time:

"By pitching more than 140 innings for the Red Sox this season, Giolito activated a $19 million mutual option for 2026"

Two of my post-fantasy season reports are done. First, I looked at this year's closer landscape:

fantasy.fangraphs.com/2025-end-of-...

Also, I've collected all the batters who played through an injury this season.

fantasy.fangraphs.com/hitters-who-...

I’m dying here. The belly slide from the 8 yard line to the 2 yard line to get this.

Cal Raleigh's end-of-season ranks

2023: 42
2024: 25
2025: 2

Last season, his ADP was 80. Someone smarter than me should have been drafting him in every league.