Honorable Mention: Prospect Rankers

Really excited to announce that I’ve joined the Marian Baseball staff as an Assistant Coach! I’m extremely thankful and excited for this opportunity and am pumped to get going with this team at a great university in a great city It’s a great day to be a knight!

Hitters just can't see Brad Lord. I don't know if this is the reason, but it's interesting to see a lot of the swing-trait-suppresion guys having notably low or high extensions (Lord, Ferrer, Dollander, Cade Smith)

Free to read at Baseball Prospectus: Adversarial Pitch Location The repeatable skill of targeting a pitch where specific batters most dislike seeing it. baseballprospectus.com/news/article/1…

Something that tons of folks have talked about- and that I found evidence for in my SaberSem stuff- is batters have a hard time detecting movement toward their eyes vs movement perpendicular to their eyes. Thought it would be useful to try to illustrate this:

The baseball nerd in me wants an expansion draft The transit planner in me is cringing at the list of cities The Cocaine and Rhinestones podcast listener in me really wants there to still be a team called the Nashville Sounds

Mets prospect Ryan Clifford has made some subtle adjustments in the box that appear to be making all of the difference. His hands are quieter and lower, helping him avoid the tendency to wrap, he's staying taller through his swing and riding his back hip longer.

Why would the Dodgers do this