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Senior writer at @FanGraphs.com, formerly SI.com and Baseball Prospectus, creator of JAWS, author of The Cooperstown Casebook (2017). Not sticking to sports or paying $8.
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This Cubs-Dodgers game is drunk

Today was my first day writing full-time for FanGraphs. I tried to make it count.

Tommy Tanks, power hitter

Max Scherzer Addresses His 2008 Baseball America Scouting Report blogs.fangraphs.com/max-scherzer...

You guys wanna see a dead body?

transcript now available, for those into that sort of thing

chat starts at 12 pm ET!

chatting at 12 pm ET!

New @fangraphs.com: a look at the controversies surrounding Max Fried and Aaron Judge in yesterday’s Yankees game

New @fangraphs.com: a look at the controversies surrounding Max Fried and Aaron Judge in yesterday’s Yankees game

i wrote a quick thing about juan soto for @fangraphs.com:

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

He’s all elbows and kneecaps, as Vin Scully would have said

This was excellent, an offbeat and entertaining movie about baseball and the passage of time

Despite the Mets’ strong start, their outfield has been one of the majors’ least productive even with the addition of Juan Soto. Jose Siri’s fractured tibia will test their depth, leading to some interesting experiments

We completely ran out of Long Island

I’d appreciate it if you stopped undermining my bluff

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Staten Island Erotic Inferno is the name of my new band

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

Max “Graig Nettles” Muncy

Emphasizing the walk in walk-off

Hell yeah

This catch

That warning track at Steinbrenner Field is so dark the outfielders should be wearing headlamps

Holy shit, that home run robbery by Jose Caballero

43 years ago today, Johnny Cash hosted SNL with Elton John as the musical guest. Prior to Elton’s performance, they switched outfits. 😂

If perpetual contention and star power doesn’t entertain you, it’s not hard to score tickets to eternal misery and pointlessness

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

New @fangraphs.com: despite the Mets’ strong start, their outfield has been one of the majors’ least productive even with the addition of Juan Soto. Jose Siri’s fractured tibia will test their depth, leading to some interesting experiments

A 275-pound sentient bag of rancid mayonnaise presiding over the demise of a 250-year-old democracy is the masculine ideal

New @fangraphs.com: despite the Mets’ strong start, their outfield has been one of the majors’ least productive even with the addition of Juan Soto. Jose Siri’s fractured tibia will test their depth, leading to some interesting experiments

new @fangraphs.com: despite a relatively quiet winter and some key injuries, the Padres own the majors' best record (15-4) and are off to their hottest start since 1998.

Finally, some good news abcnews.go.com/Politics/im-...

The food supply in the United States is about to get very, very dangerous. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

new @fangraphs.com: despite a relatively quiet winter and some key injuries, the Padres own the majors' best record (15-4) and are off to their hottest start since 1998.

Miller has an 18.00 ERA and a 39% strikeout rate right now