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Editor-in-Chief, Baseball Prospectus | I make the negativity come alive. | @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com on bluesky
Joined June 2011
watching Mike Trout process that there are indeed runners at first, second, and third as this is happening is just incredible.
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the P A D R E S are doing this. They've acquired Soto, Machado, Hader, Darvish, extended Tatis. Don't buy the small market blues from other teams. Anyone with an owner interested in winning can do this.
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it's so cool how every sports league knew going in that fanatics was awful on basically every level but still let them monopolize the market so no one has any choice but to get their shit products.
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chanting USA USA USA as a man lies on the ground holding his nuts is as america as it can get.
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"Is it fair to be debating something that happened 36 years ago" asks the strict constitutionalist.
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[staring at a team winning baseball games and packing the house every night]. What da fuck kinda business model is this.
The Padres have blown through the luxury-tax threshold for the second straight year. Does it make financial — or baseball — sense?. @jaysonst asked MLB executives:
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[12 YEARS FROM NOW]. GUY 1: y'know I was at a perfect game once. GUY 2: no shit! Who was it? Felix?. GUY 1: Domingo German. GUY 2: oh. GUY 1: yeah. GUY 2: yeah.
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I can't remember the last time I heard anyone from another sport say something remotely like "everyone is talking about baseball.".
McDavid was asked about the WBC Final between Japan and USA:. "It's what we've been asking for in hockey for a long time. Best on best. Look, everyone's been talking about baseball and 'did you see Ohtani vs. Trout?' That's what hockey's been missing for about a decade now."
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Twins in 7 is an all time pick for the LDS round.
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Just use this kind of scorebug all the time???? Adapt it to the home park scoreboard or whatever. It's an awesome touch.
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why are there zeroes what is happening.
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[jesus loudly clears his throat from the back of heaven].
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we're gonna find out that Ohtani picked Toronto based on being as far away from ben verlander as possible.
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every single new york yankees fan when they traded for benintendi: eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 🤌🤌🤌🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹. every single new york yankees fan now: how🤌 'bout 🤌 you get a fuckin' hit 🤌 or we bury you in an eataly 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 parking lot. eyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
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Weirdest part about "he's new at this" defense is that it admits the intent *was* to obstruct, he just didn't know obstructing was bad.
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Considering starting a new career where I insert home run calls into famous, somber moments.
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me, the baseball knower during a perfect game: I wonder where in the order they are for the ninth.
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Sisyphus said he does not want to be traded to the Elysian Fields and that he is pushing Hades to acquire some help in pushing the boulder to the top of that hill.
Mike Trout just said he does not want to be traded now — he called it “the easy way out” — and that he’s been pushing Angels owner Arte Moreno and general manager Perry Minasian to sign one of the remaining big free agents.
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Shohei Ohtani had the most leverage ever and didn't use any of it to ban Ben Verlander from the internet. You have to question his character at this point.
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this has gotta be one of the more confusing graphics I've seen in a bit.
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I'm not sure anything did more to engage my interest as a baseball fan than ESPN's Baseball Tonight back in the day. I'm not sure anything disengages me more than ESPN's actual baseball broadcasts these days. It's an incredible fall from grace as a production.
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MLB, desperate to connect with a younger audience, has dedicated an extreme amount of time, money, and effort to a game celebrating a movie that came out in 1989 that is largely about nostalgia and players from the early 20th century. These guys just don't miss.
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tweaked it landing the plane.
Rockies Place Kyle Freeland On Injured List With Elbow Strain
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Correct. 2005 did not factor into our 2024 projections.
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[walking into a meeting completely underdressed and chewing on an apple]. hey you guys ever think about finding a billion dollars in cost savings? I was just sitting on the couch in the other room and it came to me.
BREAKING: Elon Musk has directed Twitter’s teams to find over $1 billion in annual infrastructure cost savings by cutting cloud services and extra server space, per Reuters.
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me, seeing Kyle Seager is retiring: well I guess he is *kinda* old. [looks up his age to make sure]. [remembers my own age]. fuck.
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Oh that one is easy: the projections are based on the players currently on the team and not on how the team did last year with different players.
I love to know the breakdown of giving a team less than a 25% chance to make the playoffs after making it the last 5 of 6 years.
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melting down over the new playoff format resulting in the 89-win Padres winning the World Series and demanding we go back to the "proper format" that resulted in the 88-win Braves winning the World Series last year.
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look everyone can celebrate however they want but what on earth is this math
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alec bohm immediately clapping after getting clipped by triple-digits is utter sicko energy and I really like it.
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MLB Playoff Broadcasts so far:. TBS: seemingly only two cameras for an important replay. FS1: commercials during gameplay. MLB Network: jim kaat racism. it's going great over here.
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Getting tired of these minor league team names.
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daniel radcliffe made a bunch of money doing an incredibly popular franchise at a very young age and has since just done whatever the fuck he wants, and that's the dream.
Official trailer: Discover the untold true story of the icon who changed music… literally. #WEIRDTheAlYankovicStory is streaming free November 4.
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shit product, bad service, and a completely captured market. the american dream.
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[Billy Beane does 19 things to get his team slightly cheaper but slightly worse]."mm yes, I see it".[Nats sign Scherzer]."makes no sense.".
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this fuckin' guy, man. all the shit he's been through in his career and he still has all the confidence in the world. legit pumped for him on a different level than others.
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if I were an NFL kicker who was asked to speak at commencement, I'd probably craft the entire speech around a "here's the kicker" ending instead of getting embroiled in controversy, but that's just me I'm built different.
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You, thinking about the last 3 years of Trea Turner's contract: nooo, he's a speed-based player and he's going to be old!!!!!. Me, thinking about the Phillies offense next year: haha, lineup go brrrr.
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said this last year when Philly fans were going nuts over Middleton tossing out baseballs but pandering as an owner is SO easy. It's really a commentary on how badly you have to suck to become loathed and how many owners have managed it.
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Phillies at the trade deadline.
i am selling six beautfiul, extremely ill, white horses. they no longer recognize me as their father, and are the Burden of my life.
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fitting that there's not a glove in sight.
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I think we overlook the fact that one of 30 MLB owners has the last name "nutting" and that his team keeps sucking.
Pirates Owner Bob Nutting Discusses Player Development, Payroll
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kudos to Cubs fans for accurately predicting that we'd see Jake Arrieta and Bryce Harper on the same team one day.
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Well you'll have to watch Brandon Drury for a few weeks in April, first.
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Stats you say as words: BABIP, ISO, wOBA, SLG, FIP, WHIP, WAR. Stats you say the letters of: OBP, OPS, ERA, DRA, wRC+, DRC+, RBI, any defensive metric (UZR, DRS, OAA, FRAA). This is all common sense.
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Check this shit out motherfucker [I sign Kris Bryant shortly after paying a team to take Nolan Arenado, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do].
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All of MLB: HOLY SHIT, THE ASTROS SUSPENSION CAME DOWN. IS IT ENOUGH? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?. Oakland: what do you want for tony kemp.
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how can you possibly complain about sportsmanship here rather than marvel at possibly the widest pitcher-batter home run combo ever seen? how does anything else cross one's mind?.
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it's very funny to me that the team that signed Mitch Haniger this offseason was like "hey wait a minute" on Carlos Correa's medicals.
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it's pretty wild that they told a 73-episode story of Jon Snow and then in the last episode they had someone say "who has a better story than. Bran Stark" like why we didn't we get his fucking story then.
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"to this point" is the funniest thing I've ever heard. I take back everything mean I've ever said about Costas.
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you ever feel happy for someone but a little sad at the same time?.
Mike Trout: “This was probably the funnest 10 days I’ve ever had.”.
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love those three-year slides that consist of [checks notes] a two-month season and also two months of a season that isn't over.
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Just a truly nightmare situation for me, the guy who likes normal 5s
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The toughest part about the season ending as a fan for me is that next year's club isn't going to be nearly as talented unless something crazy happens. Seager, Scherzer, Kershaw, Jansen, Taylor all free agents. Not that you can't bring some of them back but you won't get em all.
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mlb really needs to do something about the padres turning small-market teams like the rays and cubs into glorified farm systems for them.
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beyond livid that there are fucking hacks on MLB Network who's only recent media job was literally being employed by the team RSN or MLB itself with the gall to call someone who does national reporting and is in clubhouses regularly an idiot for doing the bare basics of the job.
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Judge is absolutely amazing but somehow every other home run is some trash middle-middle breaking ball, how do people keep doing this.
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blue jays showing up to the register for the third time this week, paul dejong in tow, embarrassed to be seen at the cardinals store so often . TOR: you're not gonna believe this but another player got hurt, so we're back, again. STL: sir I don't need a story, just send prospects.
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reverse service time manipulation you love to see it.
Mets starter Marcus Stroman has opted out of the 2020 season. He has accrued enough service time to reach free agency this winter. He'll do so not having thrown a big league pitch this year.
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Telling my friends this is a British rapper named like Manzy or something.
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bret stephens sending a "say it to my face" email while also copying in a guy's boss is the polar opposite of a power move.
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the superimposed strike zone on every broadcast has turned people who watch baseball into frothing psychos who scream about idiot umpires for a pitch a quarter of an eighth of an inch off the made up box on their screen. it needs to go.
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just a reminder that if the CBT had grown with revenues over recent CBAs, the CBT would be at $297m.
MLBPA’s most recent CBT proposal (MLB’s most recent in parenths for comparison):. 2022: $238m (220).2023: $244m (220).2024: $250m (220).2025: $256m (224).2026: $263m (230).
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Buehler just turning to the bench and giving the "what did you expect" look/shrug was fucking incredible.
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MLB: we need to grow the game and get access to younger demographics for our fanbase. Me: what if going to a game was less expensive and also the prices at the game didn't remind me of being at the airport. MLB: haha, but seriously, we're just gonna partner with a brand you hate.
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Heard from a small-market GM concerned by the big market Giants’ ability to give $44M over 2 years (plus the opt out) to Carlos Rodon, especially now that the luxury tax threshold is up $20M to $230M. It’ll be harder for the little guy to compete, the GM said.
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What idiot called it Orioles Park at Camden Yards instead of Bird Box.
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Also a big deal: an MLB team agreeing to a multi-million dollar deal with a player they believed to be 14.
This is a big, big deal. As Jorge and Alden report, age fraud among international amateurs remains an issue. And this case is particularly egregious. A player who said he was 14 years old was actually 19.
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between the dodgers and MLB, it's cowardice all the way down.
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[corey seager, fresh off signing his mega contract, just swaggering around the Seager house]: 😎. [kyle seager, sipping a seemingly endless supply of drinks with umbrellas in them]: 😎😎😎😎😎.
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lmao at Ravech being like "hey why are the Astros swinging at pitches outside the zone more this year".
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"Big log.".
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this is a really tremendous strategy if you play in the AL Central.
Jerry Dipoto says he operates with a 10-year plan to win 54% of the time. "We're actually doing the fanbase a favor in asking for their patience to win the World Series while we continue to build a sustainably good roster."
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@ESPNPublicEd when does opinion become fact? A lot of people think the earth is flat. Is that up for debate? Need we respect that opinion?.
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he's in his late 30s and it's almost 11 pm, this is just things work now.
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Alternatively, approving owners who can afford their teams is a good thing.
Giancarlo Stanton to the Yankees is why salary caps are a good thing.
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I'm glad folks are saying something against the asinine bullshit spewed on MLB Network, but it's probably appropriate for the BBWAA to say something, too. They shouldn't idly watch as someone one the league's broadcast channel hurls personal insults at members for doing their job.
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then sell the team for an enormous profit, this isn't that complicated
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bringing Vesia into a bases loaded, two out ninth inning in the world series is like dropping a caffeine coated mentos into a surge cola.
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The Mets new manager, who has never managed a major-league game, is already embroiled in an absolutely massive fiasco, and I just have to believe this is going to be the Mets' year.
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SHE WORE A CROWN AND CAME DOWN IN A BUBBLE, DOUG. GROW UP.
Max Scherzer was ejected between innings after a heated conversation with the umpiring crew
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Jim Bowden in November
"There were several front offices that believed there was a pre-cut deal between the Dodgers and Roki Sasaki.". @JimBowdenGM thinks multiple teams will ask MLB to investigate Roki Sasaki signing with the Dodgers.
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Dodgers and Mets staring at this post and deciding to go 7 of the absolute worst games possible.
Underrated baseball phenomenon: The best-of-seven series that only goes five games, but all five games are good.
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BET YOUR PRECIOUS STATISTICS DIDN'T ANTICIPATE THAT PROPOSAL NERD.
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