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Pat Ellington Jr.

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26 - opinions are mine • Humanist/Nkrumahist-Toureist/Pan-Africanist • screenwriter/novelist/baseball journalist/Black Baseball Historian - @baseballpro/@SABR

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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sometimes Twitter has moments when its still good
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/06/2026
Colombians to vote in presidential run-off pitting leftist against hardliner aje.news/arkj1w
Colombians to vote in presidential run-off pitting leftist against hardliner
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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The Show Notes #34: Black Prospects In The 2026 Arizona Complex League
Take at look at the various ACL rosters for the current MiLB season and you’ll find Black Americans drafted out of high school and college, Samaná Americans from the Dominican Republic, Afro-Cubans, A...
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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The Show Notes #35: Black Prospects In The 2026 Florida Complex League
At this very moment, the Florida Complex League (FCL) has a collection of Black talent that is smaller than the group in the Arizona Complex League (ACL), but twelve Black players in a complex league ...
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
26 years ago, the Republic of Panama’s legislative assembly ratified “Law 9 of the Year 2000”, which declared May 30th to be the country’s official Black Ethnicity Day. In Spanish, this day is known as “La Dia de la Etnia Negra de Panamá.” www.redblackgreenbaseballblog.com/p/the-show-n...
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The Show Notes #36: ¡Felíz Día y Mes de la Etnia Negra de Panamá!
The Show Notes #36 highlights professional baseball's retired and active Afro-Panamanians. May is the official Black History Month of Panama and May 30th is the Official Black Ethnicity Day of Panama.
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Baseball Prospectus @baseballprospectus.com · 12/06/2026
How to Scout Pitching with Basic Tools by Mario Delgado Genzor (@mariodelgadogenzor.bsky.social) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
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How to Scout Pitching with Basic Tools | Baseball Prospectus
A step-by-step guide for how to evaluate a pitcher, both by the numbers and the eyes.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 13/06/2026
"The most left-wing media outlet there is," in the words of my coworkers, strikes again.
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
One of the most interesting articles on economics ive ever read: www.jstor.org/stable/26907...
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The Threat of Communism during the Cold War on JSTOR
André Albuquerque Sant’Anna, Leonardo Weller, The Threat of Communism during the Cold War, Comparative Politics, Vol. 52, No. 3 (April 2020), pp. 359-381
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Jon Becker @handle.invalid · 02/06/2026
If you love customizing things (and who doesn't?) this one's for you:
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
26 years ago, the Republic of Panama’s legislative assembly ratified “Law 9 of the Year 2000”, which declared May 30th to be the country’s official Black Ethnicity Day. In Spanish, this day is known as “La Dia de la Etnia Negra de Panamá.” www.redblackgreenbaseballblog.com/p/the-show-n...
redblackgreenbaseballblog.com
The Show Notes #36: ¡Felíz Día y Mes de la Etnia Negra de Panamá!
The Show Notes #36 highlights professional baseball's retired and active Afro-Panamanians. May is the official Black History Month of Panama and May 30th is the Official Black Ethnicity Day of Panama.
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Justin L @jlbaseball.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Guardians have scored 3 runs or less in each of their last 8 games. They have 3 already here in the first inning with 1 out.
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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The Show Notes #32: The Samaná-American and Cocoló Ethnic Enclaves Are Making an Emergence
The modern-day Dominican Republic’s African-American, Francophone Afro-Caribbean, & Anglophone Afro-Caribbean ethnic enclaves are beginning to produce professional baseball players at a high rate
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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The Show Notes #33: The Colorado Rockies Might Have a Hidden Gem
Eriel Dihigo is an infielder in the Colorado Rockies farm system who has posted intriguing numbers across two seasons in the Dominican Summer League.
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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The Show Notes #34: Black Prospects In The 2026 Arizona Complex League
Take at look at the various ACL rosters for the current MiLB season and you’ll find Black Americans drafted out of high school and college, Samaná Americans from the Dominican Republic, Afro-Cubans, A...
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Thomas Nestico @tjstats.ca · 24/05/2026
MLB ERA Leaders Data: FanGraphs www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-lea…
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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The Show Notes #28: Is Black Baseball Culture Losing The Plot?
Active Black MiLB and MLB players need to decide if they are going to fully commit to following the tradition of collective uplift or if they’re going to abandon it.
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I gotta start using this more
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 06/04/2026
Second edition of What Have Friends Wrought, this time featuring @felina510.bsky.social going to PR (y por qué es otra cosa); @tangibleuno.bsky.social talking about a century-long legacy of Cuban baseball; and a dude none of you know, but whom you should read anyway. buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...
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What Have Friends Wrought II: April 6, 2026
Photo by Jaredd Craig on Unsplash. Despite being physically on break this week, it will not surprise you to learn that this has been a tough time for the...
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Felina510 @felina510.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
An honor to have my blog shared by new friend in ball, @nsmckinnon.bsky.social , and an even bigger honor to have it shared alongside the work of longtime mutual from the badplace, @tangibleuno.bsky.social . <3
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Really excited to share this post about Afro-Cuban infielder Eriel Dihigo, please read and share
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Really excited to share this post about Afro-Cuban infielder Eriel Dihigo, please read and share
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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The Show Notes #33: The Colorado Rockies Might Have a Hidden Gem
Eriel Dihigo is an infielder in the Colorado Rockies farm system who has posted intriguing numbers across two seasons in the Dominican Summer League.
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
My latest on Venezuela’s superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. choosing to wear 42 and 21 in the 2023 & 2026 World Baseball Classics is now available to read: substack.com/@tangibleuno...
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The Show Notes #30: Ronald Acuña Jr.'s Clever Method of Paying Homage During the WBC
Ronald Acuña Jr. has openly paid homage to those who influenced and paved the way for him throughout his career, but what he has done during the 2023 and 2026 WBC is by far the most clever
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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
for the Felnin Celesten Defense Doubters, he looked very good at short in an extended look in today's Spring Breakout game. Seems to have cleaned up some of his mechanics and just generally looks more confident at the six.
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
My latest on Venezuela’s superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. choosing to wear 42 and 21 in the 2023 & 2026 World Baseball Classics is now available to read: substack.com/@tangibleuno...
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The Show Notes #30: Ronald Acuña Jr.'s Clever Method of Paying Homage During the WBC
Ronald Acuña Jr. has openly paid homage to those who influenced and paved the way for him throughout his career, but what he has done during the 2023 and 2026 WBC is by far the most clever
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
There arent enough regular looking people in movies anymore
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🌚 @calixsino.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Put a 6 on Enrique Bradfield Jr. hit tool with that set up??😬
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Justin L @jlbaseball.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Daniel Espino is slated to pitch Sunday for the Guardians in Cactus League play
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Adam Darowski @adarowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This was excellent. Go follow @tangibleuno.bsky.social.
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Daniel R. Epstein @depstein1983.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is good and you should read it
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John Fredland @johnfredland.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Pat Ellington is a unique presence in baseball research and commentary. Good to see him featured here.
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Pat dropped so many gems about why we, as Black Americans, should embrace the fullness of Black history across the diaspora. He provides a model of solidarity I think we can all share. www.readeyeblack.com/p/eyeblack-h...
I love that your work is reclaiming Black history and present day Black experiences lost by flattening and segregating Black and Latin identity as our own. Something that we, as Black Americans from the U.S., can embrace.

I’m bringing a Pan-African approach to studying the game. Baseball is the last place where these intersecting identities should be erased. The anticolonial elements of Black baseball culture do not get emphasized enough. You had, less than 100 years ago, Black players from Cuba and Alabama playing across the United States and the Americas. Black baseball players who were discriminated in their hometowns were treated like celebrities in South America. Before Jackie Robinson was allowed to play on a Major League field, he did a tour of Venezuela alongside Josh Gibson and other Negro League stars. There's an idiom in Venezuela that’s something like “Don’t pull a Willie Mays.” Why? Because when Willie Mays was in the Venezuelan Winter League, he struggled for a week. That’s the level of cultural impact they had. I want to preserve those stories.
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
NEW: I spoke to the journalist and researcher Pat Ellington, Jr., whose singular work expands the fullness and depth of Black history through Francisco Lindor, Ronald Acuña, and the global impact of baseball. issa very, very special BHM edition of [eyeblack]:
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How can baseball connect of all Black history?
The writer Pat Ellington Jr. shows [eyeblack] how Francisco Lindor and Ronald Acuña helped him reclaimed the fullness of Black history.
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Pat has an archival knowledge of the global Black diaspora’s participation in baseball. He connects dots like few I’ve ever met. I’m grateful he spoke to [eyeblack] www.readeyeblack.com/p/eyeblack-h...
I love that your work is reclaiming Black history and present day Black experiences lost by flattening and segregating Black and Latin identity as our own. Something that we, as Black Americans from the U.S., can embrace.
I'm bringing a Pan-African approach to studying the game. Baseball is the last place where these intersecting identities should be erased. The anticolonial elements of Black baseball culture do not get emphasized enough. You had, less than 100 years ago, Black players from Cuba and Alabama playing across the United States and the Americas.
Black baseball players who were discriminated in their hometowns were treated like celebrities in South America. Before Jackie
Robinson was allowed to play on a Major League field, he did a tour of Venezuela alongside Josh Gibson and other Negro League stars. There's an idiom in Venezuela that's something like "Don't pull a Willie Mays." Why? Because when Willie Mays was in the Venezuelan Winter League, he struggled for a week. That's the level of cultural impact they had. I want to preserve those stories.
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Michael Mahoney @mmahoney.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Pat is one of the best baseball writers around, glad to see him getting more shine. Follow @tangibleuno.bsky.social for more
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Bo Naylor in the first half: 75 wRC+ Bo Naylor in the second half: 110 wRC+
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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The Show Notes #29: Baseball's Afro-Latino Counterculture is Purposely Ignored
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
My latest is available to read: tangibleuno.substack.com/p/top-125-bl...
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Top 125 Black MiLB Prospects 2025-2026 - Tier Two
From Uganda to the state of Georgia, Black Baseball Culture is quietly moving in a positive direction. I hope this list emphasizes that fact more than anything else.
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Pat Ellington Jr. @tangibleuno.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
My latest is available to read: tangibleuno.substack.com/p/top-125-bl...
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Top 125 Black MiLB Prospects 2025-2026 - Tier Two
From Uganda to the state of Georgia, Black Baseball Culture is quietly moving in a positive direction. I hope this list emphasizes that fact more than anything else.
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