I don’t know when, I don’t know what it’ll look like, but I’m going to come back to this sometime in like 3 years as the perfect response to something

Through 2 games of the ALCS Jays have a 13% strikeout rate (batting) Mariners, 31% strikeout rate So of course Seattle is up 2-0 because baseball.

I swear to god it’s been at least a month since the ALDS. Time without Yankees baseball makes no sense.

Division Series OPS: Toronto .974 Milwaukee .753 NY .731 Chicago .666 Philly .657 Seattle .634 Detroit .604 LA .557 (!!!!) Could the Yankees have hit more? Certainly. Wish they did. But this isn’t why they lost, and it’s remarkable to me that this discussion is even real

Final tally: Fried+Bellinger: 9.7 WAR for $52MM Soto: 5.8 WAR for $51MM

In theory, the Yankees *should* have quite a bit of money to play with this offseason if they choose to reinvest expiring dollars back into the team. If Spencer Jones is manning an OF spot on opening day, one of their only true vacancies, then something went horribly wrong

Second part of that sentence can be better said as: Random Variation wins You have two teams basically 50/50 or 55/45 to win any game. To end up winning, one team will be at 100 and the other team at 0 To go from 55 to 100 or 0, THAT is what Random Variation is. Aka "Hot"

Just put the ball in play! Or something.

The number of things that needed to go right for Kirk to score there is hilarious Clement flares an 85 mph soft liner that has to drop, a dumb coach needs to send Kirk from third, and a dumber player needs to make the worst throw imaginable

2023 was a weird year The top 3 MLB payrolls missed the playoffs, with a collective 239-247 record 2 of the bottom 4 payrolls featured 2 of the best teams in the league, collectively 326-322