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I want everyone to know how proud I am of the art I found for @baumann.bsky.social's piece. Because I am *so* proud.

if where a pitch is aimed changes how it moves, can stuff and location truly be separated? i wrote about it for @fangraphs.com

So this is what I spent all week working on. There are two former University of Minnesota baseball players on this season of Love Is Blind. I went through every one of their box scores that I could find and examined how they played and how they did against future major leaguers

For our Stat of the Week, we look at @fangraphsprospects.bsky.social Top 100 minor league prospect list and our minor league Defensive Runs Saved numbers and find agreement on several notable players READ: www.sportsinfosolutions.com/2025/02/20/s...

the best part of the challenge system is the challenge system. the second-best part of the challenge system is truth in listed heights. that's right, Bregman, I'm talking about you.

This year’s Top 100 Prospects list is headlined by Roki Sasaki, and is heavy on Guardians, Dodgers, Rays, White Sox, and Tigers — oh my! Here are our rankings, along with reports on every player courtesy of Eric Longenhagen:

The White Sox lost more games than any team in MLB history last season, but things are looking up in their farm system. Six of their prospects made our Top 100 list. @davidlaurila.bsky.social spoke with White Sox director of player development Paul Janish about their pipeline:

Prospect Week is still going strong over at FanGraphs! Today on the site, @dszymborski.fangraphs.com ran the projections to determine the 2025 ZiPS Top 100 prospects:

It's here, and it's beautiful, and it is just so, so many words.

Maybe he was better a bunch of years ago before I became aware of him but I generally view people who say they’re fans of this guy as a major red flag lol

Jeffries continuing to lean on this particular metaphor feels like a psyop targeted at me specifically?

With Spring Training starting, here's how everything stands in the @ewpod.bsky.social Minor League Free Agent Draft! - @benclemens.bsky.social still has 2 players unsigned, and none are on the 40-man - @megrowler.fangraphs.com and @benlindbergh.bsky.social have all 10 players in Spring Training

Excited to start providing prospect coverage at @fangraphs.com! Check out my first article on some 2026 prospects to watch this weekend.

It’s the Friday of Prospect Week at FanGraphs and we’ve got three fresh pieces up on the site. First, our resident college baseball sicko @baumann.bsky.social previews the 2025 season, which begins today. Here are the seven teams you absolutely need to watch this season:

I liked it better when Eric Adams was undeniably deranged, and obviously very bad for New York, but also deeply, *deeply* unintentionally funny - even this we can no longer have! Simply too serious!

anyway, editing college baseball preview content as part of Prospect Week, and boy is conference realignment still not intuitive to me. Stanford plays *where*? no! gtfo! no!

at home and abroad, their whole plan is for everyone to be poorer, sicker, or just plain dead

ok, so is there like, a *new* constitutional crisis within the last two hours, or is it the same, multi-pronged constitutional crisis we were dealing with before I started recording the pod?

Wrote about the AL West race, which @fangraphs.com currently has projected as a three-way tie between TEX/HOU/SEA, and how rare that is, but also about how tight and competitive all the non-NLW division races look this year. www.mlb.com/news/al-west...

If you're a prospect hound, or even if you're not, I think that my research into how prospect grades turn into future outcomes provides helpful context for interpreting the slew of prospect data about to come your way with @fangraphs.com Prospect Week:

just remembered the fleshy cowboy hat head commercial, felt unwell

Ohhhhhh babyyyyyy (Ok, it's more like Prospect Fortnight, but that might get confusing in search.)

I love that there are individual Eagles fans who none of us know but whose whereabouts we are all curious about.

lol why is FS1 showing a dog show right now?

lol sports rock

the new search display is so beautiful 😍

eh, that one wasn’t worth the doom responses - not a criticism of the folks replying, just a statement of my own capacity - so I deleted. gonna peace out for the day ✌🏼

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

government should do big stuff, and it should also make sure that your grandma doesn’t get ripped off and you have recourse if your bank sucks. uncontroversial imo!

So happy for Angie, but losing Blowers stinks.

Our playoff odds (with a bunch of neat projection modes and different display options) can be found here: www.fangraphs.com/standings/pl...

she's so beautiful!