GAGE WOOD THROWS A NO-HITTER WITH 19 STRIKEOUTS IN THE MCWS!

Mike Monaco: "SWING AND A MISS! GREATNESS FROM GAGE! NO-HITTER!... the third no-hitter in the history, over 78 years of this event, and the first in 65 years."

Ben McDonald: "I've never seen anything like that..."

Shohei muscled this one out for his 250th career home run! 💪

(MLB x @BudweiserUSA)

So with the new Statcast bat tracking metrics (www.mlb.com/news/new-sta...), we can go back to something I've been thinking about since 2022.

NLDS. LA pinch-hit Austin Barnes against Josh Hader, not C Taylor. Dave Roberts explained at the time it was about swing path. www.mlb.com/dodgers/news...

Jackson Merrill swing path at Baseball Savant

🚨Big news from the Statcast factory🚨

New release on Baseball Savant:

⚾Swing Path
⚾Attack Angle
⚾Ideal Attack Angle
⚾Attack Direction

It's all here: baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...

Let's 🧵 what all this is and means:

I’m going with buy a team (or league!) in Europe so I can do day baseball but in Italy or Spain

A good reminder that there's a fun, useful, metrics context page on Baseball Savant that lets you easily see the value in having a fast swing, hard hit, squared up ball, etc

(.. and more to come soon!)

baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast-met...

@samd.bsky.social Finally found some analysis, just on Jan/Feb. PM2.5 hasn't moved much but vehicle emissions down substantially. I wonder if we'll see the PM2.5 difference more in the summer months.

www.cody-cook.com/papers/nyc_c...

A colorful mosaic decorates the wall of a subway entrance area

A rounded hallway is covered with colorful tiles in different geometric shapes and patterns

Vibrant colored tiles decorate the wall of a subway entrance

Another view, showing vivid blues and yellows in various patterns

The New York City Subway remains one of the best art galleries in this city

Feels like that one Yankees game has messed with perceptions

Has there been any data on pollution yet? Haven’t seen anything from where I’ve looked

How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.

“The statistics from January into March, both all-in-one and otherwise, are rolling in, and they show a trend that is clear and unmistakable: It’s working.” www.curbed.com/article/100-...

7 pitches? 8? Explaining Skenes' expanding arsenal Less than a year into his Major League career, Paul Skenes might already be the best pitcher in baseball. That's not hyperbole. He’s one of 79 pitchers to throw at least 140 innings since his May 11, ...

Paul Skenes, who starts vs STL today, keeps tinkering and adding and expanding his repetoire and, hey, how do you even classify a "splinker" anyway?

A breakdown of exactly what the most dominant starter in the sport actually throws:

www.mlb.com/pirates/news...

Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point An elbow-injury epidemic has become an existential threat to the sport, prompting the M.L.B. to brainstorm new solutions, such as the use of a heavier ball.

How baseball broke pitching is so good @lindseythoughts.bsky.social, assigning it as homework to the TL -- www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

The secret to doing damage as a hitter? It lies in the point of contact “You make your money when you hit the ball out front,” Twins outfielder Walker Jenkins, the No. 3 overall prospect in baseball, told FanGraphs recently. “That’s where you’re going to produce more dama...

How far out in front do hitters find damage? What's yet *another* reason that Juan Soto is such a god? What does it look like when when Eloy Jiménez tries to catch a slider 70 inches out front.

Lots of takeaways from the new stance / intercept point Statcast data:

--> www.mlb.com/news/why-bat...

MLB's most interesting and extreme batting stances For generations, baseball fans have loved talking about batting stances, the stranger the better – even if, as the 2024 Brewers reminded us, most of the stances aren’t quite so strange anymore. We’ve ...

Soon... now... right, right now... enjoy:

www.mlb.com/news/most-ex...

For those that didn't see, there is a post-spring ZiPS update this year, for the first time ever, after several springs testing the data. For the record, I get a random spring PA being about 73% as predictive as a random regular season PA

Eloy Jimenez batting stance on Baseball Savant.

🚨New Statcast release day on Baseball Savant🚨

.. and it's a fun one.

Ever wonder how your favorite player stands in the box, or who is closest to the plate, or furthest from the pitcher?

Now you can, here: baseballsavant.mlb.com/visuals/batt...

Hey Phil do you care about NJT commuters at all or nah?

After the creation of New York City's congestion relief zone, average trip speeds increased significantly on trips within and to the central business district in Manhattan.

After the introduction of the congestion relief zone, vehicular emissions in New York City's central business district declined substantially.

New NBER paper shows dramatic effects of NYC's congestion pricing in contrast with a set of control cities: A large reduction in travel times on roadways—average speeds increased by 15%—combined with a substantial reduction in vehicular emissions. www.nber.org/system/files...

#Statcast

The new INTERNATIONAL BEAT newsletter is out.

What's it about? Why don't we let Google's AI tell us what you definitely COULDN'T have inferred from the headline

links.mlb.mlbemail.com/s/vb/bprtRzY...

A leaderboard of batted ball types. Isaac Paredes probably pulled three balls in the air while you're reading this.

Two new Statcast updates today at Baseball Savant .. medium ones, in advance of some large ones coming.

First! A new batted ball profile board.

All the batted ball types you're used to, but also breakdowns for PULL IN THE AIR, oppo grounders, etc.

baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...

London expanded its ultra low emissions zone to its outer boroughs in 2023—limiting what types of cars could enter—and the results have been spectacular in terms of pollution reduction. A huge benefit for public health.

Mariners' Michael Arroyo, a Top 100 prospect, leads Colombia to '26 World Baseball Classic TUCSON, Ariz. -- On a team filled with experienced ballplayers and Major Leaguers both past and present, it's not a veteran that Colombia manager Jose Mosquera penciled in at the top of his lineup. Wh...

As Colombia demolished its way to the 2026 WBC, it wasn’t any of the Major Leaguers on the team who held the leadoff spot. It was 20 year old Top 100 prospect Michael Arroyo topping the lineup.

“I always thought of Michael as a leadoff hitter” his manager said.

www.mlb.com/news/michael...

It's one of the biggest home runs in World Baseball Classic Qualifier history: Dilson Herrera's 2016 home run sending Colombia to its first Classic.

Before Colombia opens the 2025 Qualifiers tonight, I sat down with Herrera to relive the moment: www.mlb.com/news/dilson-...

Congestion Pricing Reduced Traffic. Now It’s Hitting Revenue Goals. (Gift Article) Revenue figures from the Manhattan tolling plan showed that the program is on track to raise billions for mass transit repairs.

EXCLUSIVE: New York’s congestion pricing plan raised $48.6M in tolls during its first month, a strong start that exceeded expectations. The revenue figures, expected to be released publicly on Monday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, are the latest sign that the tolling plan is working.

’NJ Transit Is Ruining My Life’: Commuters Reach Breaking Point With Aging System Riders air a range of grievances with New Jersey Transit as trains and buses are snarled by crumbling infrastructure

‘NJ Transit Is Ruining My Life’: Commuters Reach Breaking Point With Aging System

Bloomberg deep dive echos findings from my NY Mag deep dive —
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

I agree we need a new redesign for USA baseball

Nicaragua vs. Chinese Taipei | 2025 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers YouTube video by World Baseball Classic

Love the early morning WBC jersey discussion between @tylermaun.bsky.social and Hyphen. Fun game between Nicaragua and Taiwan

www.youtube.com/live/FMBtNVo...

Canada Vs USA in baseball please!