Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026Maybe it's a different story with a lefty up, because yikes this shouldn't have been called a ball. Easy challenge by Hedges 000
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026This is a pitcher's strike zone so far, with both teams getting room up and off the plate away to righties. No hitter has challenged a strike call yet. Perhaps the hitters are choosing to save them for their pitchers, or don't want to risk them early. Worth keeping an eye on the strategy 221
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 10/09/2026Who is somehow doing this while looking at the first base dugout as he pitches... 010
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 19/08/2026Baumann just accused me of being a fetus in 2004 in the company slack. Someone report him to Appelman. Plz and thx 130
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 14/08/2026Baumann just slacked this exact thing to me when I notified him about it 030
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/08/2026How the sausage gets made... also, shoutout MANHUNTER (1986) 020
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 22/07/2026Interesting response from Crew Chief Adrian Johnson to the pool reporter on the José Caballero pitch timer violation today: "He's been warned all season. We were instructed not to warn him. We were instructed to violate him. That's what it is. It's a violation." 070
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 29/03/2026Not the ideal location for that pitch. Brandon Lowe now has 3 HR on the season. 000
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 27/03/2026Everybody wish Old Man @baumann.bsky.social a happy birthday! 020
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 15/03/2026With 90 minutes to go until the Oscars, here are my 2025 Feature Film rankings: open.substack.com/pub/mattmart... 010
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 20/12/2025Rob Reiner’s chameleonic nature as a director empowered others to shine, but it also made it so he would never get his proper due for his skill as a filmmaker. I wrote about Reiner in the latest edition of The Martell 100 and updated my top 100 rankings: mattmartell.substack.com/p/the-direct... 030
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 19/12/2025Text from my dad after Darnold’s 3rd down pass was knocked down 010
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 05/12/2025It's quite amusing that I read only 26 of the 28 articles I wrote in 2025 240
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 05/12/2025Bill Bergen!!! It's @fangraphs.com Walk-Off Day! 021
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 11/11/2025In what world is EIGHT MEN OUT “more like” CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA??? 240
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 11/10/2025Shoutout to the dude in baseball pants on top of the Mariners dugout 040
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 11/10/2025I’m cat-sitting for my neighbors and Yuzu wants this game to end so she can have the empty crib 030
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/10/2025Meet Armando, the Section 409 trumpeter, who flew in from Panama today with 8 of his friends. This is their first time at Yankee Stadium. They landed at Newark at 5 pm today and came directly to the game. Somehow, Armando got his trumpet through security. And everyone up here is glad he did. 1373
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 08/10/2025Same, but from the aux box in Narnia (ft. Some dude in a Paul O’Neill jersey) 161
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2025Brian Snitker’s stepping down is a sad day for those of us on the Sports Illustrated baseball staff when this happened. 511923
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2025In this story, I also go into Aaron Boone's decision to take out Max Fried in the 7th inning: 000
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 18/09/2025On the latest episode of We Live in Hell, it’s ChatGPT Night at Citi Field. 292
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/09/2025It’s one thing for me to see someone I covered for the Daily Collegian succeed in the NFL; it’s quite another to see a Penn State baseball player I covered in college reach the majors at all. That Justin Hagenman is also pitching well is pretty dang cool 020
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2025Yes, I took a vacation from @fangraphs.com to watch more baseball. I’m that sicko 030
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 31/07/2025Interesting nugget in Ken Rosenthal and Dennis Lin's piece last night about the Padres targeting Miller. They might stretch him out to make him a starter, as they've done successfully with guys like Seth Lugo, Michael King and Stephen Kolek. www.nytimes.com/athletic/652... 121
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 13/07/2025The local sports bar has the MLB Draft and THE FUGITIVE on the main TVs. Hell yeah 240
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 13/07/2025No. 40-42 on Eric Longenhagen's MLB draft section of The Board has to be the best three-name run on any list in the 20-year history of @fangraphs.com. Link: www.fangraphs.com/prospects/th... 150
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/07/2025My Yankee fan friend chimes in on the DJ LeMahieu DFA: 020
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/07/2025Yankees hitters since June 1: DJ LeMahieu had the fourth-best wRC+ on the team. www.fangraphs.com/leaders/majo... 010
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 08/05/2025They really should’ve let this drag out for longer than 1 day and 28 minutes. 010
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 05/05/2025This has to be one of the strangest Best Actor Oscar nominations of all time, right? In 1975, James Whitmore was nominated for playing Harry Truman in a one-man biopic, which has been logged by 611 IMDb users. Over Ryan O’Neal in BARRY LYNDON, Warren Beatty in SHAMPOO and Roy Scheider in JAWS? Huh? 100
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 21/04/2025Ferris Buehler’s Day Off is now a baseball movie, I guess. 120
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 14/04/2025Presenting the 6 players with 6 home runs entering this week. Early-season baseball rules! 121
Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 04/04/2025@baumann.bsky.social did, in fact, use the word "supercavitating" to describe torpedos to me over Slack yesterday morning while I edited Davy's piece. And I did, in fact, zone out upon reading it. 020