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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 28/02/2026

New Mendoza Lede sent out this afternoon.

Our email masthead which reads:

The
Mendoza Lede

No 1 Source for the 3rd Race to Two Hundred

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 21/02/2026

lol it’s Bo Naylor’s birthday

I quoted a birthday cake to show by the players name on their birthday

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 17/02/2026

Philadelphia invited Dylan Moore to Spring Training, so in theory there are only two spaces left in the 2026 Mendoza Stakes starting gate

P.C.A.
M. MURAKAMI
M. MUNCY
B. NAYLOR
O. CRUZ
C. MOREL
D. MOORE
L. ROBERT Jr.
N. CASTELLANOS

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 12/02/2026

I’m a big fan of the Unicode horse

Mendoza League Buttons 2026

ASK ME ABOUT MY FANTASY BASEBALL TEAM

HITS ARE FOR SQUARES

AND THEY’RE OFF!

Horse

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 17/09/2025

ngl I’m a little embarrassed by how excited clinching a wild card spot got me

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 01/09/2025

Can’t even begin to describe how happy I am

The MENDOZA STAKES standings have Jake Rogers at an exactly .200 average, as told by the cool emoji by his name, but it appears no way he’s going to reach 200 bats before the end of the season — so Dylan Moore, who was just cut by Seattle and picked up by Texas and is sitting at .199, has only 4 at bats left to qualify, and will probably win the 2nd Annual Running of the Bob Uecker memorial Race to .200

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 17/03/2025

There are SEVEN more hours to make your picks 🫡

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 15/03/2025

TWO MORE DAYS TO LOCK IN YOUR PICKS AT MENDOZALEAGUE.COM

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 04/03/2025

I’ve put the official Mendoza League racing form, “The Mendoza Lede” on-line at dudlawson.com/LEDE2025

The cover of the printed Mendoza Stakes racing form, The Mendoza Lede

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 02/03/2025

I also used to have this baseball he signed

A baseball that says “I’m sorry I shot JFK - Pete Rose”

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 24/02/2025

Last season I printed up and mailed out tickets to every manager — I wasn’t going to this year but I still don’t have a job so…

A race ticket for the 2024 Mendoza Stakes

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 16/02/2025

I wonder how chaotic it would be to do updates in a shared Notes app

A screen grab of the Mendoza Stakes leaderboard formatted in a notes app

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 14/02/2025

A look behind the curtain at the very scientific odds calculating system utilized at the Mendoza League H.Q.

Several scraps of paper with varying baseball players’ batting averages written on them

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 14/02/2025

Despite the fact that Joey Gallo, Michael A. Taylor, Tim Anderson, Yoán Moncada and Kyle Schwarber amongst others did not make the lineup, I am very excited about the 2025 Mendoza Stakes field

⑥ T. WALLS (NL) 4-1
⑦ J. ADELL (AL) 8-1
⑫ R. HOSKINS (NL) 6-1
⑬ M. MUNCY (NL) 6-1
㉒ J. SIRI (NL) 5-2
㉓ K. BRYANT (NL) 12-1
㉕ D. MOORE (AL) 2-1
㉖ K. LEE (AL) 5-1
㉘ J. BÁEZ (AL) 10-1
㉙ M. BUSCH (NL) 10-1
㉞ J. ROGERS* (AL) 3-2

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 13/02/2025

I’m a big fan of this year’s buttons

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 12/02/2025

And now, a dramatic reading of the newest Chicago White Sock Michael A. Taylor’s player profile as seen in the 2025 @baseballprospectus.com Season Preview, written by Michael Rosen:

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 11/02/2025

More and more people are doing it. E-mail COMMISH@MENDOZALEAGUE.COM today in order to get a printed racing form in your mailbox

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 08/02/2025

I would once again like to reiterate how delightful this publication is every year

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 08/02/2025

I hopped back on the Batting Average train in 2023 and it’s like sitting on the side of that bus looking at a sunset instead of the cliff

Not your average fantasy baseball league

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 07/02/2025

I broke out the Sartre to see if ol’ J.P. had anything to say about sports, and oh boy did he deliver:

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 04/02/2025

If I were a broadcaster I’d absolutely say this every time the visiting team or a home run. I totally went into the wrong field

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 03/02/2025

A .160 batting average in The Mendoza Stakes is the same as hitting .240

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 03/02/2025

A .240 batting average in The Mendoza Stakes is the same as hitting .160

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 02/02/2025

I’ve made a lot of posters. Let’s be clear I did not say “too many” posters

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 01/02/2025

We’re not playin around this season

An image of the 2nd edition of Fred S. Buck’s “Horse Race Betting: A Comprehensive Account of Pari-Mutuel and Bookmaking Operations”

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 01/02/2025

Big shoutout to Josep Oller for inventing the pari-mutuel betting system in 1873

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 01/02/2025

We’ve really tightened up the wagering system this year. It’s easy: if your batter is closest to .200 at the all-star break, you win an equal share of 20% of the pot. If you have the batter who’s closest at the end of the season who has also reached 200 at bats you win your share of the rest!

2025 MENDOZA STAKES PARAMETERS

WAGERING

Pre-Race Tickets: $20
Available during Spring Training (Feb.20 - Mar.17)

Mid-Race Tickets: $25
Available during All-Star Break (July14 - 17)

PAYOUT(S!)

All-Star Break - July 14
20% of total Pre-Race purse to ALL ticket holders of the batter closest to .200 BA (NO MIN AB)

Finish Line - Sept. 28

Remaining purse + all Mid-Race funds to ticket holders of the eligible batter (MIN 200 AB) closest to .200 BA at season's end

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 31/01/2025

Shoutout to that compilation album Sonic Youth made for Starbucks where they let their friends pick the track listing open.spotify.com/playlist/0fa...

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 29/01/2025

Bold direction from the Chicago Cubs marketing dept. this season, you have to C it

What happens is we try to BREAK EVEN! every year and that’s about it

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 28/01/2025

I might print some posters of this

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 27/01/2025

I can’t say this is my favorite sentence I’ve ever written, but it’s up there

Finally… fantasy baseball for baseball fans who aren’t fans of fantasy baseball

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 24/01/2025

I’ve got the perfect fantasy baseball league for anyone who feels like they don’t have time to keep up with a fantasy baseball team and/or is just kind of sick of the current state of baseball in general. It’s the best and you should let me know if you want it, did I mention it’s the best?

TheMendoza League
2015 — 2025
Our Tenth “Glorious” Season!

Pick the batter from our field of
11 contestants (to be revealed on Valentine's Day) who will finish the 2025 season closest* to The Mendoza Line!

*Above or below .200 (Min. 200 At Bats)

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 22/01/2025

Wait that’s only 5, how could I forget the most important one that EVERYBODY will get:

Our tenth “glorious” season
The Mendoza League
2015-2025

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 22/01/2025

The final button is of the man who this season is dedicated to: Bob Ueker. The man hit EXACTLY .200 for his career and that is goddamn amazing

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 22/01/2025

In my experience when you wear a button that says “ask me about my fantasy baseball team” the only people who actually do ask about your fantasy baseball team actually have no interest in your fantasy baseball team

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 22/01/2025

This one’s probably going to be perennial. It feels ominous for some reason

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 22/01/2025

I stole our league motto from Sonic Youth and my one goal in life is for this league to outlast Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon’s marriage

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 22/01/2025

Maybe my favorite of the new 2025 buttons. I was calling batters who were equidistant from either side of the Mendoza Line “equal opposites” and I’m really kind of mad at myself for never using this before

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 19/01/2025

Hey, good job Chicago Cubs if for no other reason than using this phrase before any of the other professional teams in your city

A bear playing a guitar surrounded by the words “sweet home Chicago” as seen on a jacket in the cubs store at wrigley field

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 19/01/2025

We’re going canary yellow this season

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 17/01/2025

As good as the rest of the new stuff is, this is pretty bad too

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The Mendoza League @mendozaleague.com · 16/01/2025

We’re getting close to a finalized field of batters. This guy might not even make it, but it’s easily my favorite writeup so far:

㉒ J. SIRI (NL)
3-1
CF b. 1995 2024 — .187 Avg. / 402 At Bats
2025 Proj. — .215 Avg. / 382 At Bats  Hey, Siri! “…Yes?” What’s the most interesting thing that happened to Tampa Bay’s starting centerfielder in 2024? “Hmm… on April 30, 2024, Jose Siri hit a routine groundout at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that led to him getting slapped in the face by Brewers pitcher Abner Uribe, resulting in a bench-clearing brawl and 5-game suspension for both players.” Well what’s he doing now? “Jose Siri was traded to The New York Metropolitans last November and maybe a change of scenery will do him good.” Thanks, Siri.

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