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You'll Never Walk Alone ❤

Tonight’s reading. Rest In Peace, Mr. Angell.

Don’t let the permanent scowl fool you -- Slugger the Sea Dog is one of the most exuberant and boundary-pushing mascots in Minor League Baseball. Benjamin Hill goes behind the scene: atmilb.com/3mX3d4n

The same SCOTUS that said yesterday that states don’t have the ability to regulate guns today gave states the power to regulate women’s bodies.

Pedro Martinez Jr, Manny Ramirez Jr, D’Angelo Ortiz, Jaden Sheffield and Kade Foulke all have famous last names This summer, they’re trying to build their own legacies with the Brockton Rox “We’re not trying to be our dads.” espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…

I've listened to hundreds of hours of Nixon tapes, and this is way, way worse than Watergate.

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WAIT THIS IS AMAZING BASEBALL IS THE BEST

Starting working on this weeks ago, but the timing lined up pretty well for it recently. I spoke to BLASTERJAXX, Timmy Trumpet, the New York Mets' Brendan McKeon and Edwin Diaz about how everything came together for the most electric closer music in baseball. mlb.com/news/edwin-dia…

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A new Statcast thing! At Baseball Savant. At long last. Full arm strength leaderboards for position players, beginning in 2020. They're right here: baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/ar…

Minor League Baseball, Marvel Entertainment unveiling #DefendersOfTheDiamond-themed team logos for 2023 season. #MiLBxMarvel

Messi.

This is March. Minor League Baseball will be played this month.

Happy Thursday. Let's do a ... hey, there's a whole bunch of new things on Baseball Savant thread. 👀

📹 Johnny Damon brings Tim Wakefield the American League Champions trophy after beating the Yankees in 2004. Wake was hurting bad in that same clubhouse the year before after giving up the home run to Aaron Boone #RedSox #WBZ

If you played ball in New England in the 90s/00s, you threw knuckleballs warming up. It was required. That was because of Tim Wakefield. If you weren't there at that time, you just can't know what he meant. And by all accounts, 80-grade person. RIP Wake.

#YNWA

On the day of Joe Castiglione’s last MLB call before retirement, I can tell a lot of stories about listening to Joe and how his voice was the sound of my New England summers. Here are just a few: