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The next time someone tells you that modern starters are all max-effort and don't know how to pitch, show them today's Tarik Skubal 2-hit shutout. He dominated while pitching at 90% of his max velocity, which meant he sat 97-98. And touched 103 mph. baseballamerica.com/stories/tarik-…

As expected

A few weeks ago, I noticed a handful of Nationals had the same books in their lockers. Turns out, there’s a book club reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. More on the group’s journey to Middle-earth this season: washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/05…

Absolutely incredible line here from Quinn Priester. 0 K’s 16 ground ball outs

83 pitches! Cruising after that leadoff homer

Washington is not the one making the final decision here but this is still just a wild quote from the Angels. “We never thought that far ahead.”

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Cal Raleigh's epic power surge (even by his standards) is completely mindblowing to watch but can also largely be explained by one fact: his ability to pull the ball in the air has gone from Extremely Good to The Best and that's from *both* sides of the plate

Roman Anthony hits for this slash line for the rest of the year: .265/.315/.430 .330 wOBA, 115 wRC+ Is that…

Feels like a one-of-a-kind box score

circling back on this, this is the least pulled (furthest away from the LF foul pole) home run of Isaac Paredes’ ENTIRE CAREER!!!!!!! He has NEVER hit a home run further away from the LF foul pole than this.

Go back 20 years and the last few weeks of Priester would be everyone’s favorite pitcher. Lots of strikes ✅ Not many walks ✅ Not many strikeouts ✅ Lots of outs in play ✅ Pitching like a true throwback

I mean, zero percent chance the whole team gets mad at the manager for comments like that.

The Devers trade is not going to make my feed any less Yankee/Red Sox heavy. Alas, mildly amusing to continue to see the large gaps between how front offices evaluate players and fans.

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Eh, neither the team or players want to get hurt. Strongest predictor of injury is previous injury & the Dodger will sign high upside previously injured pitchers 10/10. Doesn’t need to get more complex. They have the money to sign them and the player dev to fill in any gaps.