Um, I just got asked to take a survey by MLB.com and they really need to read the room:

if you missed Baumann's piece yesterday, don't miss it today

It's been... one week since I wrote Five Things (so here's another one):

will say that the rush to tinfoil hat Ohtani signing with both the Dodgers and Angels (!!!) from some quarters... concerns me!

Effectively Wild Episode 2150: Crime Doesn’t Ippei blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wi…

The Athletics will relocate to Sacramento at season’s end, leaving behind Coliseum workers who, in some cases, have held their jobs for decades. I spoke to several about how they learned of the news, what those jobs meant to their lives, and what's next cbssports.com/mlb/news/oakla…

Terrible MLB Teams Are Pretty Good at Baseball blogs.fangraphs.com/terrible-mlb-t…

Can One Bad Team Swing a Division Title? blogs.fangraphs.com/can-one-bad-te…

Giddy up, Orioles, pick up your feet
Holliday’s here to rock.
Swing and a-bring in Baltimore runs,
It’s Holiday’s time to rock.

Also due up in Jon Becker’s Top of the Order: Blake Snell’s Giants debut, the free-swinging Giancarlo Stanton, and more… blogs.fangraphs.com/top-of-the-ord…

Cincinnati Reds Top 40 Prospects blogs.fangraphs.com/cincinnati-red…

The Orioles are calling up shortstop Jackson Holliday, the no. 1 prospect in baseball.

Just how good is he? Eric Longenhagen and tess taruskin provide a detailed report of him on our Top 100 Prospects list: blogs.fangraphs.com/2024-top-100-p…

Arrighetti is reportedly being called up and will make his MLB debut tomorrow. If you missed his recent interview at FanGraphs, it is well worth the read.

the pants seam different this year

Lake in June 2022:

'I'm incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that's already on the books...it will prohibit abortion in Arizona except to save the life of a mother. And I think we're going to be paving the way and setting course for other states to follow.'

The stakes for the Arizona Legislature are massive. If we can flip just two seats in each chamber we can take back control from the people who are letting a total abortion ban stand.