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Doing the baseball things at @MLB dot com. BBWAA. NYC. BU. NJ. Sometimes I play the bass. Go @njdevils.
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Tuning in to watch David Peterson finish off a CG shutout like I used to tune in to watch a guy take a no hitter into the 9th

Trivia time, best hard hit rate since APR 29 (min 100 PA). Who is #1? (That's an admittedly stupid cutoff date -- I was using it for "Max Muncy eyeglasses" purposes, but here we are. )

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Since the 2023 All-Star Game, Luis Arraez: 107 wRC+ 1.6 WAR I get that the 4% K rate is wild and everyone loves that but we're also now coming up on two calendar years of him not actually being a very useful baseball player?

Baseball is dying

I get that we're like a decade beyond "pitcher wins and losses don't matter much," but also, haaa. Chris Paddack 2024: 5-3, 4.99 ERA 2025: 2-5, 3.55 ERA

People are furious that Statcast isn't giving Clarke more credit for HR robs -- I agree a little, but not fully -- and even with that, he's *still* rated as one of the most elite defenders in the game, so, yeah, he's getting plenty of credit. baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...

On this moving day, I have made sure to bring the most important item a person over 35 can have: the trash bag of assorted power cords, forgotten adaptors, and audio cables that have been collected over the previous two decades

Damn you, time