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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

first at bat made me wonder, so: jackson chourio has swung at 55.1% of pitches in the postseason, second-highest among players not yet eliminated (angel martínez, who is 0-15; min. 50 pitches)

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't know how much approach/plan really matters when you have a 61% fastball whiff rate. The answer to that is just "do better"

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

andrew benintendi struck out in every plate appearance he he had in this series. all seven!!

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

bringing in a guy with a career 15% walk rate to face a very patient hitter with the bases loaded is very brave managing. of course, sabrowski is also one of the few pitchers with an even higher career strikeout rate than murakami (37% to 35%)

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

what could possibly make you use cade smith here? you just saw how tired this type of usage made grant taylor

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

anthony kay has now hit 27 batters this year. none of them are ever injured enough to leave the game, and that's as much pain as i've ever seen them show

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the blake snell virus is infecting left-handed playoff starting pitchers

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

hagen smith zone rate by game this series game 1: 51 pitches, 29% in-zone game 3: 21 pitches, 29% in-zone game 4: 27 pitches, 26% in-zone somehow only one run allowed if fedde gets out of this

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

imo they should go up to 190 games and cut the postseason entirely

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

teams should be limited to no more than two mid-inning pitching changes in a game. we're already at 3 runs per game in the playoffs; i can't take any more commercials

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Christie/Perry might be worse than Vitello/Posey

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was going to put it on after the playoff game ended until this made me check the score. How can you take six threes in a half in 2026?

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sasaki should throw his splitter like 70% of the time i think. it's basically his only good pitch and also the only one he can locate

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i can't think of any justification for roki sasaki to throw 0 splitters in his first 12 pitches under any circumstances

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If I remember in the morning, I will look for how many of those happened in a dome (so how many of those 13 were weather-induced)

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think you can remove the lower bound EV and upper bound LA though because those only make it tougher to hit it that far. With that larger sample, you get 13 non-Coors batted balls of at least 342 feet. So yes unlikely but possible

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ban all baseball roofs. Outdoor sport

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

tarik skubal has two outs in the 5th inning on under 60 pitches and even john smoltz couldn't dream further than saying he could go seven innings

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i feel like commercial breaks used to have different ads. now i’m just subjected to the same sydney sweeney gambling ad over and over again

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

hagen smith had a 29% zone rate in a playoff start and didn’t allow any runs. inspirational stuff

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

harper doing all that pandering just for his entire phillies career to be remembered as john kruk shouting "run" in their final postseason appearance

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

drake baldwin putting the nickname “baldy” on his chest protector is extremely confident stuff

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

postseason included, aaron nola is 262 home runs allowed away from the all-time mark. i think that's doable in the last four years of his contract

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

remembered that the aaron nola contract goes through 2030

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i strongly disagree with a commercial for the postseason including a pitcher striking out ke’bryan hayes. the skill level required is just not that high there

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if harper has a normal amount of blood he catches that

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they should keep the pitch clock going during pitchcom delays and stack the violations

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i find it very disturbing that ryan rolison is spelled with only one L; it clearly should be rollison

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

maybe the wrong day to say this since rutschman has their only hit but i'm still looking at the red sox lineup and seeing maybe four or five guys that i'd rather have getting those extra pa

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i'm always fascinated by teams watching a guy like adley rutschman play terribly for months, and no better than adequately for years, and still insisting on hitting them high in the order for some reason

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

their baseruns record was 79-83, so i think you can still claim success

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“come hell or high water” but not moving on from andrew knizner bsky.app/profile/gian...

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i don’t mean to be rude but there’s basically zero chance that morgan ever gets to the big leagues under any other circumstances; this is it

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

three days ago tony vitello said he would get morgan into a game and apparently he was just lying? or messing with the guy?

Alex Pavlovic on Twitter:

Zach Morgan won’t be activated, will end up getting two stints in big leagues and a taxi squad week without getting in a game. Pretty brutal. Giants used record-tying 71 players, but somehow didn’t get an at-bat for a homegrown guy from Stockton.

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

so the giants promised that they would get zach morgan into a game so that he wouldn’t be a phantom big leaguer and then just forgot about him?

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

one of the great innings in the history of diamondbacks hating

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tristan beck started throwing 95-98 a few weeks ago in triple-a; i kind of think he should survive the dfa wave now

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i realize that i didn't actually answer the question on koss in particular; the giants broadcast thought that it was bunting for a hit very poorly. krukow said it was koss's hardest hit ball of the year, spurring a momentary awkward silence because teammate logan webb was also in the booth

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the giants are bunting on almost 4% of their balls in play this september. idk why. i guess it makes sense in that all of the real players are on the il now but it's hard to explain bsky.app/profile/alex...

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it's a better product than christian koss

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tarik skubal just picked up seven whiffs in a ten-pitch inning

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i really enjoyed kyle tucker going on a two-week hot streak at the end of the year to avoid getting conforto'd off the playoff roster and keep de paula out of october

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

giants bunting has shot way up during the season. 3.8% of batted balls in september is the most of any team in any month this year, first team month since 2018 to cross even 3.5%

table from baseball savant of sf giants's bunts (as pitches) per batted ball (as total) by month

Rk. Team Month Year Pitches Total Pitch %
1 SF Sep/Oct 2026 19 495 3.8
2 SF Aug 2026 15 693 2.2
4 SF Jul 2026 9 652 1.4
3 SF Jun 2026 13 696 1.9
5 SF May 2026 6 786 0.8
6 SF Mar/Apr 2026 4 811 0.5

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alexandra whitley @alexandraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

that was +3.6 win probability and a free out to a pitcher having obvious trouble throwing strikes. to set up osleivis basabe in place of christian koss, plus two more righties behind that

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