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Sam Miller

@sammillerbb.bsky.social
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Ballwriter, pebblehunting.substack.com

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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Parker Messick designated for an assignment
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Astros Games Without A Bullpen Day: 0
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Asher needs 11 more wins @asherball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am honestly shocked that the Astros players went on the record to berate their fans for not being supportive enough. Not doing that is like, Babytown Frolics for athletes!
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once in a Pebble Hunting post I tried to guess one thing I had done that day for the last time in my life. I came up with "heard The Impression That I Get." But NBC just used it as the first inning outro music.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
G1: Bullpen game G2: Opener G3: Piggyback G4: Miguel Rojas
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
yordan álvarez's baseball savant page, but it's for Geddy Lee instead
Yordan's page on Baseball Savant, with 1st percentile rapping, and 100th percentile "cool sounds on the bass", "songs about snow dogs", catching the mystery and catching the drift"
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Internet's broken, I looked up some symptoms and it said they're no big deal
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Productive Outs @productiveouts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No quicker way to my heart than to hit an absolute nuke in your first MLB game, explode with joy as you round the bases, and then rip a guitar solo (with pick slides!) on a goddamn trident in the dugout. Hell yeah, Lazaro Montes!
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The aging curve, complexity level 1
Mike Trout triples by age, reaching zero this year
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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 28/09/2026
Tampa Bay rays post on twitter: 

NO REST
162 GAMES with 40+ hrs

Pic of junior caminero sitting with one leg bent, foot flat on floor, other leg fully extended on floor, holding a bat that is standing barrel down, he's holding it by the knob. He other arm is resting on his bent knee. 
New radicals you get what you give cover, where the guy is sitting legs extended
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This post was wrong. Turang didn't keep OPSing .900, like I was buying. But he finishes second in the majors in WAR.
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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Walken character is death. He persuades the man on the train to go out and party, the man dies, and the final scene is them at a David Bowie concert in the afterlife. This has always seemed pretty transparent to me. "Sleep when you're my age" isn't a saying. "Sleep when you're dead" is.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Camerawork of the year right here
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Camerawork of the year right here
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 25/09/2026
Alex Bregman is the first person in MLB history to play in 10 straight postseasons without appearing on the Braves or Yankees.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@zcrizer.bsky.social fun one
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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 24/09/2026
We're four years into MLB's push to revive the stolen base, where the tide is already beginning to ebb. The league made it easier than ever to do, but it's failed to make it worth it.
baseballprospectus.com
Crime Doesn't Pay | Baseball Prospectus
The stolen base revival hasn't really stuck.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pretty remarkable it took almost two decades for somebody to break Mark Reynolds' strikeout record. Leaguewide K rate that year was 7.0 per 9. It got up to 9.1 per 9!
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'd love a cameraperson whose bit was he'd only ever narrow it down to two defenders
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
oh man, the captioned "[LAUGHTER]" after Ira Glass tells the kid his feelings are sorta hurt
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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 24/09/2026
Opportunity to share my favorite-ever "keys to the game" which came from Fox TV's "Man vs. Beast" in 2003. A pro sprinter raced a zebra and the graphic said the keys to winning for the man were to get a clean start and for the zebra to stay focused and realize that it's in a race.
Still from the TV show. The zebra is being led to the starting gate. Superimposed over it is a bulky graphic headed Keys To Victory.

MAN: Good clean start

BEAST: Stay focused. Realize it's a race.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the keys to this game are one pitcher's name and the other pitcher's throwing arm
KEYS TO THE GAME
LAKE EFFECT
GET THE LEFTY
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By contrast I've never had inflammation that I didn't think would require surgery
Fernando Cruz, who threw a touch and feel bullpen a few days ago and has another pen tomorrow, just said multiple times that he's refusing to "accept" that he has a partial UCL tear. 

He said he is "100%" ruling out surgery, and that, in his mind and heart, he's dealing with inflammation. He hopes to pitch again this year. #Yankees
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also notable because Austin and Tyler are the only two Texas cities I've spent a night in!
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A getaway-day doubleheader between two deeply disappointing teams with 0.2 percent combined playoff odds is a TOR/BAL idea.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On Aug. 30 Kyle Harrison's WAR was 2.5, and now it's roughly 0.4.
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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 23/09/2026
time for people to once again confuse "good" for "I remember that"
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The helmets are too loose pebblehunting.substack.com/p/helmets-2026
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The helmets are too loose and if anything they’re getting looser.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The helmets are too loose pebblehunting.substack.com/p/helmets-2026
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The helmets are too loose and if anything they’re getting looser.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fine, ace inflation is out of control
Headline: The Rays' Unlikely Ace 
Body: This afternoon, Nick Martinez....
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
their season's like an early-March Cactus League game played out at 1/162nd speed
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sometimes you're looking up an avant-garde piece that Madvillain sampled and suddenly Zach Hample is in the comments calling it lame?
YouTube user @zackhample, 6 years ago, "Lame."
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've never seen a dealer react like this!
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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My question here: Are Jeremiah Jackson or Rece Hinds the reason why this season has crashed so hard? Do they deserve this level of scorn from their manager after an entire season of soft-pedaling player criticisms for more heavy lifting guys who have disappointed?
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Daniel R. Epstein @depstein1983.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the most recent @theonion.com newspaper, they ran an article titled "Baseball Analysts Call for New Stat Called B.L.E.P.H." Today at @baseballprospectus.com, I published five new stats called BLEPH. You're welcome. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
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Baseball Analyst Answers Call for New Stats Called BLEPH | Baseball Prospectus
With not just one option, but five.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nice to see DJ Herz back in the majors pebblehunting.substack.com/p/73-basebal...
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73 Baseball DJs Ranked By Their DJ Names
What the (DJ) Heck.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every time you turn on your TV, it should just say "do not attempt," and that can cover everything. We're wasting thousands and thousands of work hours writing the disclaimers at the bottom of every commercial.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@productiveouts.bsky.social
Oneil Cruz showing significant dad hat.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If batters never swung at 3-2 pitches by the Miz, they'd do a lot better. Wrote about some implications of modern ball: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/can-you-not
pebblehunting.substack.com
Can You Not?
A time to swing, a time to refrain from swinging.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If batters never swung at 3-2 pitches by the Miz, they'd do a lot better. Wrote about some implications of modern ball: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/can-you-not
pebblehunting.substack.com
Can You Not?
A time to swing, a time to refrain from swinging.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This ska half-album released in the year 2026 genuinely rocks, I can't get enough of it open.spotify.com/album/46PTzs...
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Halfway to the Place Behind the Stars - Album by Streetlight Manifesto | Spotify
Streetlight Manifesto · album · 2026 · 6 songs
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm admittedly not an early child development expert but it does seem the ideal scenario for any baby is being collectively raised by a traveling women's professional soccer team
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My great fear is I'll be watching a baseball game and die right at a moment like this
A ball is descending to be either a game-ending catch or a walk-off hit in CLE/CHA.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I knew it! Way back in April, I was like "that guy's core doesn't work!"
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've never seen an athlete advertising two competing products at the same time, like Jeter is doing with Polymarket and BetMGM. He must be *really* passionate about gambling's deleterious effects on society!
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
CBA negotiations this winter-- Owners: Salary cap. Players: No salary cap! Washington Nationals: SEVEN INNING GAMES.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it feels like the 300th time this year I've clicked over to see how the Blue Jays scored their runs and saw seven smoked baseballs and Vlad in the middle
Seven smoked baseballs and Vlad in the middle
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is Wilber Dotel "backing up the plate" the best Fundies Are Dead moment of the year? I think so.
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