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Matt Martell

@mattmartell.fangraphs.com
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Associate Editor of FanGraphs. Former Sports Illustrated Baseball Editor. My work has appeared in The New York Times, Men’s Health and The Messenger (RIP). I also write The Martell 100, a newsletter about movies. Penn State/Daily Collegian alum.

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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026
Maybe it's a different story with a lefty up, because yikes this shouldn't have been called a ball. Easy challenge by Hedges
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026
This 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
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 10/09/2026
Who is somehow doing this while looking at the first base dugout as he pitches...
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 19/08/2026
Baumann just accused me of being a fetus in 2004 in the company slack. Someone report him to Appelman. Plz and thx
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 14/08/2026
Baumann just slacked this exact thing to me when I notified him about it
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/08/2026
How the sausage gets made... also, shoutout MANHUNTER (1986)
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 22/07/2026
Interesting 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."
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 14/05/2026
There are cobwebs on the seats at Citi Field
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 29/03/2026
Not the ideal location for that pitch. Brandon Lowe now has 3 HR on the season.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 27/03/2026
Everybody wish Old Man @baumann.bsky.social a happy birthday!
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 26/03/2026
Wait, Marty is in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU?
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 26/03/2026
Cool
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 15/03/2026
With 90 minutes to go until the Oscars, here are my 2025 Feature Film rankings: open.substack.com/pub/mattmart...
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 07/03/2026
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/02/2026
Drake Maye looks like Christian Hackenberg
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 22/01/2026
Congrats @baumann.bsky.social!
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/01/2026
Cliff Booth has a Detroit Tigers keychain?!
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 20/12/2025
Rob 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...
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 19/12/2025
Text from my dad after Darnold’s 3rd down pass was knocked down
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 05/12/2025
It's quite amusing that I read only 26 of the 28 articles I wrote in 2025
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 05/12/2025
Bill Bergen!!! It's @fangraphs.com Walk-Off Day!
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 11/11/2025
In what world is EIGHT MEN OUT “more like” CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA???
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 25/10/2025
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 11/10/2025
Shoutout to the dude in baseball pants on top of the Mariners dugout
Shoutout to the dude in baseball pants on top of the Mariners dugout
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 11/10/2025
I’m cat-sitting for my neighbors and Yuzu wants this game to end so she can have the empty crib
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/10/2025
Meet 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.
Meet 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.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 08/10/2025
Same, but from the aux box in Narnia (ft. Some dude in a Paul O’Neill jersey)
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2025
A few what? A few small beers.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2025
Brian Snitker’s stepping down is a sad day for those of us on the Sports Illustrated baseball staff when this happened.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2025
In this story, I also go into Aaron Boone's decision to take out Max Fried in the 7th inning:
Because of what happened next, a lot is going to be made of Boone’s decision to pull Fried after 6 1/3 scoreless innings with the bases empty, the bottom of the order due up, and the Yankees leading by a run. But it was understandable. Unlike Crochet, who was getting better as the night wore on, Fried had labored through the middle innings and was showing signs of fatigue. His command was slipping, and hitters were fouling off some pitches that they’d swung through earlier in the game. Even if Boone had stuck with Fried, he wasn’t going to last much longer. At some point, the Yankees would have to turn to their suspect bullpen.

No, the bigger problem was Boone’s decision to bring in Weaver, specifically, when he did. The righty-hitting Ceddanne Rafaela was much better against right-handed pitchers this season than lefties, and Weaver was a reverse-splits guy too. The Red Sox center fielder was also 2-for-6 with two home runs in his career against Weaver. Small sample size, sure, but it wasn’t an ideal matchup.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 25/09/2025
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 21/09/2025
The timing of this press release is so Mets
Mets press release announcing they set a single-season attendance record at Citi Field this year, on the same day they fell out of a playoff spot.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 18/09/2025
On the latest episode of We Live in Hell, it’s ChatGPT Night at Citi Field.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 03/09/2025
It’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
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 27/08/2025
Grand total (I had 5)
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2025
Yes, I took a vacation from @fangraphs.com to watch more baseball. I’m that sicko
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2025
We live in hell
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 31/07/2025
Interesting 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...
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 13/07/2025
The local sports bar has the MLB Draft and THE FUGITIVE on the main TVs. Hell yeah
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 13/07/2025
No. 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...
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/07/2025
My Yankee fan friend chimes in on the DJ LeMahieu DFA:
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 09/07/2025
Yankees hitters since June 1: DJ LeMahieu had the fourth-best wRC+ on the team. www.fangraphs.com/leaders/majo...
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 17/06/2025
Photo by Dean Moses of amNY
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 22/05/2025
The Sean McVay of Penn State Baseball
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 08/05/2025
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 08/05/2025
They really should’ve let this drag out for longer than 1 day and 28 minutes.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 05/05/2025
This 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?
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 21/04/2025
Ferris Buehler’s Day Off is now a baseball movie, I guess.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 14/04/2025
Presenting the 6 players with 6 home runs entering this week. Early-season baseball rules!
MLB players with 6 HR entering play on April 14: Wilmer Flores, Mike Trout, Aaron Judge, Kyle Schwarber, Tommy Edman, Tyler Soderstrom
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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.
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