I never need an excuse to write about Mookie Betts and Juan Soto, but I made one up anyway

Schmidt's first pitch of the game was... All the way up

"What the Yankees have to do is win every at-bat" dude what? That's not how baseball works

Spectacular defense there, and I love going for it too

Tommy Two Toes (On The Bag)

Uhhhhh

Anthony Volpe didn't try to go the other way and keep the line moving. Why isn't he getting panned?

I would really, really, really recommend not prying a baseball from Tommy Pham's mitt. nytimes.com/athletic/live-…

Look, not that I'm surprised by the inaccuracy, but Soto swings at 3-0 pitches in the zone at roughly double the league average rate. He's doing exactly what Smoltz is demonizing him for not doing. Very confusing!

Boy, these Dodger hitters are making some solid contact the more they see Gerrit Cole. Someone should investigate whether this is some kind of pattern

Teoscar's double would have been a homer at Dodger Stadium

Huge props to Cole for bearing down and getting through another inning

I had Wacha down for 3/16. Our median crowdsource was 3/18. He signed for 3/17. Great work, everyone.

The FanGraphs Baseball team and I wrote up the top 50 free agents available this offseason (or, well, probably 49 plus Gerrit Cole)

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The number of keyboard warriors who flood FanGraphs comments with "I'd hate for my team to pay for Soto" just baffles me. Do they all think they're going to get hired by the Rays front office for their brilliant understanding that great players sign big contracts?

Ben Clemens if albert pujols signed with the angels at Soto's age, the deal would be remembered as one of the biggest FA wins ever

Issuing a correction regarding the Chicago Bears: you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"