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Creator: Northeast Draft Guide https://northeastdraft.substack.com/ Formerly: Prospects Live: MLB Draft Senior Evaluator -SF Giants fan. NJ born + raised. Lover of bat flips. ABA Instructor. 'Different, Not Less'
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Ernie Johnson with an emotional sign-off from 'Inside the NBA' on TNT. 🏀📺🎙️❤️ #NBA

Per the club’s PR, Cole Young is the first player in Mariners history to deliver a walkoff in his MLB debut.

Delon Wright playing in the 4th quarter of an elimination game down 10. Takes 2 3s and misses both. Not a guy who should be playing late in games but Thibs does it anyway.

The only player who can stop Karl-Anthony Towns is Karl-Anthony Towns

🚨Velo Leaderboard Update🚨 Two new additions from Yale + Landon Mack moves up after reaching 96 MPH vs Penn State!

Big issue I have with LLMs and AI assistants right now is the incentive structure for these tech companies. Growing/building the product requires increased human interaction. Tech companies will be motivated financially and from an R&D perspective to maximize engagement.

The Nuggets have solid role players. Peyton Watson and Julian Strawther are good players. David Adelman is much better at deploying them than Mike Malone.

Christian Braun is having the time of his life right now.

With @bannedmacmahon.bsky.social: How Nikola Jokic quietly became the NBA’s *defensive* analytics darling www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

I haven't worked in a financial job in about 10 years, so what do I know? But it will take years, maybe decades, to build enough infrastructure and empower the domestic workforce for these tariffs to make sense.

Velo Leaderboard Update! -Caleb Leys moves up from 4th place and is now tied for 2nd -4 new additions this week. 2 prep + 2 D1 -6 way tie for 5th place!

Another week, another velo leaderboard. New Additions: Truman Pauley + Callan Fang, Harvard Alistair Morin, Siena Ben Alekson, Fairfield

NEW: First edition of the Northeast Draft Guide Spring Velo Leaderboard for 2025! Only including velo readings I personally witnessed. Should be fun to track this all spring long.

“Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.” Influencers make content to appeal to audiences and to algorithms. Views on clickbait topics are higher. Feedback from both audience and analytics encourages them to make more. Audience capture is real. The money and clout are, too.

I have no problem with SGA winning MVP. But I'd like folks to be honest about it. If it's about team W-L and/or Jokic 'fatigue,' I can accept that. SGA is having an all-time great season and plays every night. He's worthy. But don't tell me he is the better, more impactful player.

Bluesky has 3 minute videos now?!?! Time to get some fresh content on here

If you watch one thing today, let it be this. youtu.be/FkPLcaKIyl0?...

Tough time to be an empath. Great time to be a white-collar criminal

We’ve Got College Data!

the russians started the war in ukraine. in 2014. the americans and europeans are complicit in not taking that seriously. for nearly a decade they continued business with russia as usual, acting as if the territorial integrity of a european nation didn’t need to be defended.

Loved what I saw from Michael Oliveto at the dish today. Big time bat that will be on pro teams' radar this spring. Yale commit. Thank you, PrepBaseballReport for an awesome day of baseball!

This Friday is the 25th anniversary of Baseball Reference! The website went online in April 2000, after first being launched that February. To commemorate this anniversary, Baseball Reference founder & president Sean Forman is hosting an AMA on r/baseball on February 7th at 11:30am ET.

Most triple-doubles this season: Nikola Jokic - 22 Nikola Jokic through 3 quarters - 15 LeBron James - 9 Domantas Sabonis - 8 Jokic has more triple-doubles through three quarters than any other player has in an entire game.

It never gets old watching Jokic drop dimes, that second one is just nuts.

Wyatt Nadeau '25 6'6-250 Gorham (ME) | Vanderbilt commit From Baseball Performance Center pro day. Big uptick in velo from the big man from Maine. Power arsenal w/ starter's frame. Great get for Vanderbilt. FB: 95-97 SL: 84-86 CU: 82-83 CH: 88 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6jm...

Half Man! Half Amazing!

Vince getting his jersey retired again tonight

Jokic on pace to become the first NBA player ever to average 30-10-10 on 50-40-80 shooting splits 😲

Is there a new meta on the horizon? Sinkers + cutters have seen usage rates jump in MLB the past few years. And four-seamers are trending down. Here are five college pitchers with some of the most interesting sinker metrics for the 2025 Draft. FREE: futurestarsseries.com/best-sinkers...

The amount of outright scams and AI generated content at the other place is outrageous right now.

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

Lewis Rodriguez, CF Marist Soph. | '25 elig. Same old L-Rod showing off his wiry strength at the dish. Toolsy athlete coming off a solid freshman year that included an .818 OPS, 7 HR, and as many BB as K (36)

Ryan Strnad, C Kennedy Catholic (NY) Seton Hall commit '25 eligible Great size w/raw pop to match. Swings w/ intent from a wide setup. Looks to damage to the pull side. Could be an instant contributor at Seton Hall.