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Managing editor of @fangraphs . Writer there, too. Co-host of @EWPod .

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Meg Rowley
4 years
i am fangraph
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John Sterling Calls
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I don't know who fangraph is
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surprising given his disdain for third base
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TMZ
4 years
Mariah Carey Describes First Time Sleeping With Derek Jeter, 'So Sensual'
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5 years
you vs. the guy she told you not to worry about
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1 year
poot
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west coast brewery bro aesthetic
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dude's already 6' 6", what more do they want?
@rotoworld_bb
Rotoworld Baseball
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Braves extend Chris Sale
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11 months
gonna pull the military decals off 'em then, bud?
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Chelsea Janes
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Manfred, on leaving Pride nights up to teams versus standardizing across the league: “We have told teams, in terms of actual uniforms, hats, bases that we don’t think putting logos on them is a good idea just because of the desire to protect players:
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3 years
I am a woman who runs an analytics site and just changed into a different jersey in an attempt to alter the course of this game, I contain multitudes
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2 years
so excited for the rest of America to learn about Cal Raleigh’s nickname
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3 years
this is heartbreaking
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Jeff Passan
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New York Mets general manager Jared Porter sent explicit photos, including a naked picture of a penis, to a foreign female reporter in 2016 after she had ignored dozens of other messages from him for weeks. Details in news story with @minakimes at ESPN:
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3 years
a conspiracy theory i would believe is that liam hendriks can absolutely hear the booth but is pretending not to
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3 years
they are risen
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5 months
$700 million *and* he theoretically doesn't even have to move, truly one of the best individual days a human has ever had
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there's no rule that says a cow can't play baseball
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Rotoworld Baseball
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Nick Lodolo (calf) will make season debut Saturday
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11 months
I know it isn't new, just being laid bare in starker terms, but the A's relocating, the bungling of Pride, the talk of capping baseball ops, contracting the minors - it all feels like the game shrinking to only serve the few while leaving the rest of us behind
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3 years
wow seems drastic
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Rotoworld Baseball
3 years
Javier Baez (forearm) was removed as precaution
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Dude has turned pandering into an absolute art (complimentary)
@MLBLife
MLB Life
7 months
Bryce Harper repping Philly legend Allen Iverson on his way into the ballpark today 😤
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3 years
the giants: fly eagles fly! doug pederson:
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4 years
sir,
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4 years
does the person who designed this hat dislike Kyle Seager personally, yes or yes?
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7 months
If a writer expressed this sentiment to me, I would have a lot of questions about her reporting. If something as anodyne as Arcia's exclamations in an open clubhouse violates some weird notion of a "sacred space," what other stories are being held back or missed altogether?
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Awful Announcing
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"And then some jackoff comes in at the end of the season that gets a credential, God only knows why. And the clubhouse is a sacred space." Alanna Rizzo went off on Jake Mintz's clubhouse reporting on MLBN's "High Heat" Thursday.
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even if you don't care that your sport is in the midst of gambling scandal, even if the optics of a team posting lines on their own dude don't strike you as dicey, i wish less of modern life was about someone trying to separate us from our money via scammy nonsense!
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New York Yankees
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Nestor settled in. +112 to record 5+ Ks ✅ Odds from @FDSportsbook
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3 years
surely this color combo is a crime?
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2 years
he's a 10, but he's on the kansas city royals
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3 years
I like the approach the M’s broadcast is taking to trying to explain advanced state/the limitations of average. also showed average, which is good because not everyone cares about nerd stuff end that’s ok.
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3 years
Earnest tweet alert: today marks three years for me at FanGraphs. It has been wonderful and challenging and I wouldn’t want to do anything else. I hope I’m better at this than I was when I started and will be better at it than I am now in the years to come. Go nerds, yay graphs!
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3 months
the M.L.B.
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3 years
"but is otherwise very much alive"
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3 years
very sad that many youths don't clearly remember this version of pujols
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4 years
wow, his wife made me think out-righting him would be harder
@mlbtraderumors
MLB Trade Rumors
4 years
Rays Outright Sean Gilmartin
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3 years
we've been to the moon, i refuse to believe tbs can't mute the chop
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20 days
we see players post screenshots of this stuff all the time - had a pitcher last year tell me that the worst days on social media for both him *and his family* aren't the nights he gives up a home run that costs his team the win, but the nights that home run cost a gambler money
@Very__Regular
lauren
21 days
never seen a more succinct explanation for why sports gambling sucks. player does fun/goofy thing in a basically decided game and a bunch of twerps start screaming at him for risking their precious parlays
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4 months
participating in image rehabilitation tours is an active editorial choice, one that reporters and publications are extremely free not to make
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7 months
me, watching the mariners
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2 years
holy crap, the mlb flashbacks on mlb dot tv appear to have dropped the aggressive guitar riff intro, our long national nightmare is over
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2 years
the thing about the seahawks is that the mariners are a good baseball team
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3 years
i don't really have the energy to do the barstool discourse again except to say that the harm that site has done and continues to do is so well-documented that if you're still on the fence about them, you're probably not interested in actually grappling with their bullshit
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1 year
idk, I just don’t think you’re unseating the Astros with anything less than a “let’s fucking go” approach to roster building, sorry for getting so technical
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2 years
men will literally pretend they didn't already know the playoffs were a crapshoot instead of going to therapy
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3 years
paid off my car, credit score dipped slightly, excellent system
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7 months
I just want all the baseball guys who want to kiss to feel like they can kiss
@ah_pod
Absolutely Hammered
7 months
are the players finally kissing now
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4 years
wow, congrats to degroom
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Rotoworld Baseball
4 years
Lugo starts 2nd game of doubleheader; deGrom Wed.
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4 years
my plans: 2020:
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11 months
Pride Nights shouldn't be about straight people, especially straight people who don't seem to like gay people!
@KeeganMatheson
Keegan Matheson
11 months
As part of their upcoming Pride Weekend, the #BlueJays plan to have Anthony Bass catch the ceremonial first pitch on Friday.
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do the Dodgers think we don't know who Shohei Ohtani is?
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Los Angeles Dodgers
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed two-time American League Most Valuable Player Shohei Ohtani to a 10-year contract.
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4 years
aaahh!
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9 months
might have been a strategic error to suspend a well-liked member of a profession whose denizens broadcast their thoughts to a big audience for 2.5 hours every day idk
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2 years
what a truly special thing that he got to do that in a cardinals uniform
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2 years
a firmly held belief i don't want feedback on: LED headlights are bad and should be banned
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2 years
as others have said, letting players elect not to wear a pride logo, as if acknowledging someone else's humanity is something you can opt out of, feels bad!
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3 years
advancing this narrative is just so wildly loathsome
@AgentRachelLuba
Rachel Luba (レイチェル・ルーバ)
3 years
You may not like this, and as a female it was a tough reality I had to accept, but this is not uncommon when it comes to celebrities—this is yet another example of how people abuse the temporary DVRO process in hopes of gaining publicity/money.
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4 years
weight watchers has some regrets probably
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wait, we're using a "tip" from an opera singer to piece together clues about a potential Ohtani signing, and people were seriously complaining about this process being bad for the sport?
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supported warren, voted for bernie in next week's primary, hope fellow warren folks do the same. we should decide to care for and protect one another, and stop enriching and empowering some at the grave expense of others.
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probably don’t try to satisfy the people who don’t really want you to have a pride night at all! maybe screw those people, they suck and don’t care about inclusivity!
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3 years
am not sure you have actually seen this movie? 😬
@MLB
MLB
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Yankee Stadium looking like Tatooine. 😍 #BaseballSky
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3 years
ohtani appears to have almost gotten beaned in the head by jared walsh's batting helmet in the walk-off celebration so... weird night
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@Angels
Los Angeles Angels
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sweet dreams 😴😴😴
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the mlb app insisting you pick a favorite team means i always read these updates as coming from the mariners, which, lol
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2 years
apart from anything else, i'm amped for rays fans getting to confidently buy a jersey for their guy. really cool!
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2 months
i am losing my entire mind
@lindseyadler
Lindsey Adler
2 months
New statement on the pants from an MLB official: “The uniform pants have the same material and thickness as the uniform pants used last season. There were changes to the fabric of the jersey, not the pants.” i.e. design and sizing changed but not the material, per the league.
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3 years
impossible to overstate how much worse the last decade of mariners baseball would have been to watch without kyle seager
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3 years
a lot of media coverage of barstool weirdly historicizes their offensive content and like, they ran a piece with the headline "The Dodgers Ball Girl Who Tackled a Fan on the Field Is a 24-Year-Old ROCKET" and a bunch of embeds from her instagram... yesterday?
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4 years
Looks like all Betts are off, eh?
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2 years
Don't understand media members who discuss fans' framing of labor strife as "millionaires vs. billionaires" as a fixed position. You're a writer! With a platform! Your job is to contextualize these negotiations and help your readers understand the issues at play. Do your job imo.
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3 years
wow nature is heeling
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if you have 352k followers and you're implying that a guy is doing something that results in an automatic 10-game suspension, probably be sure? probably also do more upon learning you were wrong than retweet passan debunking your tweet's claim?
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Jomboy
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Seems a little suspect lol. Guy with a rubber glove smears some stuff from a tin into his armpit?
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4 years
excited for yankees fans to discover baseball's true purpose: feeling sad in a low stakes way!
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3 years
amer i can. nation al.
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1 year
just cut him, what are we doing here?
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3 years
the reason to pay minor leaguers a living wage is that they are workers and every worker should receive a living wage for working. but the other thing that always gets me is that this has to result in worse baseball!
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five days in, the jerseys are still so noticeable. look terrible! such tiny letters! so many visible briefs!
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3 years
love that wade miley looks as surprised about his inclusion on the graphic as i do
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4 years
hi hello yes, stephen strasburg should change into jeans and a button-down and go sit among the cardboard fans, thank you
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also, I'm sorry, but the pant issue is *so* obvious under big league lights - could see the Nike swoosh on Adolis García's briefs while he was in the batter's box, just clear as day
@clintonyates
Clinton Yates
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I dont wanna be this guy, but yes, the MLB uniforms still look ridiculous and are definitely affecting the visual experience now that these games are real.
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3 years
every month should have a three day weekend, all of them, every one
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3 years
the “burger flippers deserve a good wage? what nonsense!” people are really going to get their noodles cooked when they realize we think folks should be comfortable and ok even if they aren’t working at all!
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3 years
/logs back on to the hellsite for the first time in a week /immediately logs back off
@AndrewMarchand
Andrew Marchand
3 years
NEWS: MLB & Barstool Sports in significant talks to broadcast games, The Post has learned.
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3 years
i don't have a clever thing to say about the portnoy story. i hope he experiences consequences, the women in the story can find some peace, and sports leagues rethink their partnerships with barstool, which has been transparent about its values since the jump.
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3 years
spooky season
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1 year
put frasier's face on the city connects, you cowards
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4 years
what are we doing!
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3 years
happens to a lot of guys
@rotoworld_bb
Rotoworld Baseball
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Max Scherzer (groin) won't start Wednesday
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4 years
The Mariners, aka
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2 years
i'm not watching tiger king again, you can't make me
@ShamsCharania
Shams Charania
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Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has entered health and safety protocols, team says.
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3 years
what a hellacious day National DV Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 RAINN hotline: 1-800-656-4673
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2 years
HAPPY BASEMENT MURDER ROOM SEASON TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE, WHICH NOW INCLUDES ME AND THE SEATTLE MARINERS
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3 years
happy trout opening day to those who celebrate
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4 years
there are a great many reprehensible things about the bad chair sports site, but also, no part of portnoy's racism is taking a risk or mixing it up! shithead racist luxuriates in his own racism is one of the most tired bits in "comedy."
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2 months
some of you need to have a glass of water and go be outside before you tweet more about this Ohtani stuff, good lord
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2 years
i, the managing editor of a baseball site who is also a seahawks fan, demand restitution for this tweet
@JonHeyman
Jon Heyman
2 years
Word from one agent: “We are down to the 2-yard line.” Others agree: things are promising.
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3 years
as i've said before, i'm not sure what or how much i'll feel when the mariners next make the postseason, but i do appreciate mitch haniger wanting to fuck around and find out
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3 years
the minimum wage discourse is bad in so many ways but seattle's local burger chain, dick's, pays line workers a $16-$17/hour base wage with health insurance and tuition assistance, and a cheeseburger is $2.10. the potential "consequences" of paying folks something approaching...
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well I’m sure more likely to remember the extent to which the Orioles have sucked vs the Rays in recent seasons *now*
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