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mike couillard @mcouill7.bsky.social · 1h

As if this S-tier intro wasn't good enough from @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com, his next line after is my favorite of the entire piece and perfectly encapsulates what every baseball writer has been trying to express about Red Sox/Yankees for the past 30 years.

It’s very funny to think that the Boston-New York series of the past were grotesqueries, bloated four-hour contests packed with bloated, muscular hitters, a combination of sweat, money, and patriotism boiled into a soup.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 2h

Did Jacob Misiorowski have a better fastball this year than anyone, ever? Today @baseballprospectus.com: what informs the case for and against, who else he needs to top to earn that distinction, and whether I think he did. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

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The Best Fastball Ever | Baseball Prospectus

There has rarely been so little suspense in the races for the major awards in one league. The 2026 National League MVP will be Pete Crow-Armstrong. The 2026 National League Cy Young Award winner will ...

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 1h

Patrick is a stone cold freak for dropping writing this good into the intro of what is a useful, but fairly formulaic Game 2 preview format: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

There’s an element to sports that sportswriters never weary of trying to capture, hacking through the kudzu of metrics and quotations to get at. It’s the paradox of a sense of overwhelming immortality, mixed with a sense of how fleeting that omnipotence is. Athletes hypnotize themselves into attaining it, fans slurp at it like a shallow oasis in the desert, writers build entire novels constructing a world to provide it. The Boston Red Sox lost a pair of games to the Washington Nationals by 15 runs around the end of June, and then seized that invincibility and held it for more than five full weeks, enjoying a run almost unparalleled in the history of baseball. It was like snorting cocaine while on a runner’s high after finding out you’d aced a college final and fallen in love, all at the same time.

Unfortunately, that time happened to be July, and by the end of September it was a happy memory. Baseball took that perfect month and chewed away at it with its sharp little teeth, as it always does, pulling at hamstrings and snapping bones. And on Tuesday, the capricious and hateful gods of baseball took it and provided it to one Ben Rice, handed him the thunderbolts to strike the heroes down. For one day it was the Yankees who were invincible, led by the league’s best pitcher and a hitter whose resting face might best be described as vague concern, even as their captain stood with his elbows on the dugout railing. The New York Yankees are now, today and only today, the greatest team in baseball. But maybe not tomorrow. The gods need fresh meat.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 1h

should of let him bring an iced coffee to the interview

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 13h

something I said when the "dodgers can't hit fastballs" discourse came up before was that old though they may be, there were enough youngish guys, and guys with fastball hitting track records that it would shock me if they couldn't rebound. lo and behold.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 14h

struggling with the pxp guy calling Ryan Rolison a young pitcher

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 16h

Baumann is on Ben's Original's payroll

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 16h

Jason Benetti should stop saying slobberknocker and should start calling Payton Tolle "The Mass Pike"

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 17h

if you're going to be Dave Roberts you have to fully commit. Walk out there and let Taylor talk you into leaving him out there. Build the lore.

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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 18h

G1: Bullpen game G2: Opener G3: Piggyback G4: Miguel Rojas

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 20h

a classic Sam Antonacci manufactured run right there

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 20h

a Luzardo/Sale matchup with a fun game full of interesting choices and plays leading right into Game 1 starters AJ Blubaugh and Hagen Smith is good stuff. They sucked us right in.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21h

Mattingly taking plays out of Dave Roberts' script without realizing it's Dave's movie and not his smh

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21h

Austin Riley adding in "I don't care what anybody says" after calling the Phillies a good ballclub is some solid, if inadvertent, shade

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Jeffrey Paternostro @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social · 21h

Riley/Duran is probably the worst plausible high leverage batter/pitcher matchup in this series for Atlanta, and well that’s baseball Suzyn.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21h

it's not particularly healthy but there's a broken part of my brain that, any time I see a picture of Dario Amodei, I just think "Matthew Rhys is gonna win an award for playing this guy"

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21h

not seeing enough riffing on this Harper/Lee matchup tbh

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 21h

not trying to yuck anyone's yum or whatever but the Albies ball being a triple when Hill jumbled it on the warning track after the missed catch is silly. Official scorers are out of control.

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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 22h

STORE MODE SOUNDS GOOD WHAT IS GOING ON

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 22h

Big rant from me off the top of this one about grocery stores making you clip electronic coupons despite already being signed up for their membership or whatever. There's also an end of season recap and a playoff preview if you care about that.

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Five & Dive Episode 584: Respection Systems | Baseball Prospectus

Craig, Jeffrey, and Patrick put the regular season to rest and preview the first round of the postseason.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 22h

@santelli.bsky.social hey, any chance you can shoot me a DM or email cgoldstein@baseballprospectus.com for email

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 29/09/2026

pinging every baseball-related chat I have with "Joe Musgrove" followed by varying numbers of question marks

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 29/09/2026

I'm just some nobody, but I think if this is how you set up your corporate governance for an IPO you just shouldn't be allowed access to public money

Under this arrangement, a majority vote of the seven co-founders will direct a single share of Class F stock that amounts to 50.1% of the total voting power over key corporate matters, including the election of some board directors and other matters submitted to investors.
Anthropic's four other classes of shares have various functions or limits, among them minimal voting rights for the company's strategic partners. And while the ⁠Class A common stock for average investors will come with one vote per share, Anthropic's novel capital structure could effectively diminish the influence of everyday investors.

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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LHP Matthew Boyd will start Game 1 against the Padres, Counsell said.

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L.D. (From Seaver to Seattle) @seatoseabaseball.com · 28/09/2026

it's been an honor and a privilege to be part of this staff! I think I did a particularly good job on this last BSB, but you all should read it and decide for yourself :)

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 28/09/2026

frankly tired of google docs trying to finish the word I'm typing for me. I'm a competent typer and you don't need to constantly guess where I'm going. It doesn't save me time to locate the right arrow mid-typing, it's just disruptive!

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 28/09/2026

I think the fact that two teams are going to bullpen game Game 1 of their playoff series, against each other, is a signal that there are too many teams in the playoffs.

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 28/09/2026

Fantastic writing by @seatoseabaseball.com in our last Box Score Banter of the year. Hard to believe the series has been going for five years now, but it's still going strong as ever. Proud to work with all these folks. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Meaning isn’t something you create on your own. We do nothing in isolation, least of all this. Meaning is a dialectic, both process and product, an invisible mass filling the space between us that we breathe and shape as easily as air. It’s a conversation between teammates, between pitcher and hitter, between a fielder and a fan with a particularly tasty-looking basket of nachos, between TV and radio, between writer and reader, between the audience behind home plate and the one tuning in from an ocean away. It’s a dialogue with the memories of playing catch and ripping open card packs, with the faded marks of your parent’s pencil in a scorebook, with the winners and losers of ages past, with the hopes and dreams of every soul who was shut out from the game and kept on playing anyway.

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 28/09/2026

cut to Duran warming up in the 6th, 7th, and 8th innings, before entering down 3

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 28/09/2026

this is very much the problem of someone who has to input lineups and rosters for projections but please for the love of god set roster deadlines for the day before the actual game. Teams just refuse to provide any insight whatsoever anymore until the morning of, and it frankly sucks!

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Daniel R. Epstein @depstein1983.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NL Wild Card previews at @baseballprospectus.com Some Immaculate Grid guys for each matchup: Braves/Phillies- Luis Avilan, Stan Lopata, Earl Torgeson Cubs/Padres- Luis Salazar, Rick Wilkins, Tim Worrell www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...