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it seems very strange to me to create a ballot prioritizing old timey announcers (most of this ballot has been dead for decades) when there are many deserving living announcers, some elderly themselves

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I am...surprised that Gage Wood never became a September option for the Phillies and think there's some show/don't tell going on there in that he didn't

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a lot of good starting pitchers have started platooning their breaking balls lately, but Scherzer was basically the only SP doing this five years ago, and it's always fascinated me that he was *so* ahead of the curve on a lot of stuff that became orthodox www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Best of BP: The Two Scherzers | Baseball Prospectus

Is a pitch still an 80 if you can only use it against half the hitters you face?

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one of the funniest Mets arcs of the last couple months was Bichette giving quotes to different writers once or twice a week trying to plant reasons other than "the contract I am on is insanely good for the player I currently am" (you know, the real reason) as to why he might opt in

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yes but this is also only the second time since PPI picks became a thing that there was a significantly ideologically contested race with PPI implications

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(it’s because the vast majority of people arguing this are Mets fans)

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okay but if you want people to actually vote for your candidate it generally helps to be able to point to something other than “trust me bro”

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A lot and using a weird cherry picked stat from a team irrelevant to the conversation that hasn’t had a high draft pick in 35 years is pretty weird?

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Max Scherzer, an absolute one of a kind legend to the very end

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the box to get out of on Benge vs. Stewart for ROTY remains that basically every case Benge has leads you back to voting for Wetherholt instead of either of them; Wetherholt has more WAR than Benge by all flavors and almost as much playing time even missing the last month

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realistically given that they were in 5th but closer to 14th than 4th nothing *actually* mattered substantially from an outcome perspective ultimately, I guess. I would call this probably the median outcome from the deadline forward

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Counting on the Nationals bullpen is unsettling

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issuing correction on a previous front office ranking of mine, regarding the terror group PHI. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

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you just hate to see it folks you really do

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Phillies eclipsing the 2007 Mets would be cinema

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This one is rough. We were online pals since before some of you were born. One of the friendliest, funniest baseball posters ever. We spent hundreds of hours breaking baseball simulation games together and made the single nuttiest trade I’ve ever made in any format. May his memory be a blessing.

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

every Travis song being lyrically awful because they’re songs about being content and secure is an incredible bit

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a single about Joe Jonas in the year two thousand and twenty six

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wrapped up my month-long project ranking MLB front offices this morning with the top ten operations in baseball. Has been a lot of fun and work to put together, I hope everyone has enjoyed it. @baseballprospectus.com www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

2026 Front Office Rankings: Teams 10-1 | Baseball Prospectus

Welcome back to the 2026 MLB Front Office Rankings. If you missed them, you can catch up on the first three articles here: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Teams 30-21 Part 3: Teams 20-11 TIER 3: DEVILS R...

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Listen you just can’t get anything like Greggs in the United States

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to bring an ideologically compatible former head of baseball operations into a high level advisory role. Good front office do this too. I’m not sure the premise is wrong, though

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t think there’s going to be an alignment problem and he’s well regarded in some circles. I was not nearly as impressed by the Falvey/Levine Twins as most of my peers personally but I am mostly neutral here

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the obvious move if he was willing

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a new unknown Taylor single implies the existence of a new unknown Taylor album

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it’s kind of bizarrely funny that the only Dem elected actually consistently willing to bail Trump out of bad media cycles is the left-coded millennial guy but he should also really really stop doing this

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you’re ever trying to do this you’re supposed to line up in a max protect punt formation and have the punter run to the corner of the end zone. Almost all of the stuff that can go wrong in that case is still a safety anyways

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

one of my more recent stress release/small joy things is to spend an hour or two going through cheap bargain bins at baseball card shows or shops solely to buy random cheap shit that looks cool or makes me feel nostalgic (sometimes both!)

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the first game of a four game series, just suspend it and play the rest of it at 6 tomorrow

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here are teams 11-20 in my front office rankings. Mish-mosh of teams I think are smart but have questions about and teams I think are not smart but have been successful regardless, including the single most extreme team of that type. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article... @baseballprospectus.com

2026 MLB Front Office Rankings: Teams 20-11 | Baseball Prospectus

Welcome back to the 2026 MLB Front Office Rankings. If you missed them, you can catch up on the first two articles here: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Teams 30-21 TIER 5: YOU ARE THE ONLY EXCEPTION 20....

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Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026