I spent ages on doing this for the Flyers last time it came around but since then Ryan Ellis came around and everything fits now FWD: Jaromir Jagr ($73), Dale Hawerchuk ($67), Adam Oates ($14) DEF: Rob Ramage ($15), Ryan Ellis ($4) G: Sean Burke ($26) $199 total

OH MIKEY THIS IS SO NOT RIGHT

Hello there! You may have seen yesterday that @FanGraphs has decided to implement a metered paywall system for their articles to combat the increasing uncertainty of online advertising revenue... (1/9) blogs.fangraphs.com/why-were-movin…

I'm not exaggerating this is exactly why we had Vatican II

I'm workshopping a theory that NFL kickers are too good now and we need to narrow the goalposts.

The power of education

Got a big feature coming on FanGraphs tomorrow, but tonight, I have the first edition of the Wheelysports World Championship Preview, which is mostly about how the numbering system at worlds makes me very angry open.substack.com/pub/wheelyspor…

I don't want to live in a Shams-dominated world!!!!

I've been working on this in the background all year. What would it take for a pitcher to strike out 300 batters in one day? And is it even physically possible? blogs.fangraphs.com/is-it-possible…

Shams was a portent of the current era of sports media (AI-inflected gibberish in hock to gambling conglomerates). And now he won.

It would be a lot cooler if this were a baseball series announcement

Among the insights contained here in: Dave Jauss explaining how he can throw 700 strikes an hour but only if he keeps up that pace, and Matt Strahm using cornhole to demonstrate that he can throw strikes underhand

For those who remember the 1000 pitch bullpen...

Really looking forward to defending my Kimbrel Hall of Fame vote a few years down the road.

Sucks for Chinatown. Here’s a story I did for SI on how SoFi impacted Inglewood. Not completely analogous but lotta similarities Bottom line: there’s a reason they don’t build these things in rich white neighborhoods like the Main Line or Beverly Hills si.com/nfl/2022/02/09…

john mulaney/chappell roan is a host/musician combo designed in a lab to give tumblr teens a seizure variety.com/2024/tv/news/s…

Three guys you look at and they're just the same player at different points of their career: Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Donovan Solano