evcinnyc.bsky.social

evcinnyc.bsky.social

@evcinnyc.bsky.social

Used to run the NYT Games business and launched Spelling Bee. Now streaming Out Of The Park Baseball, loving live music and traveling

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If this was a coin-flip scenario: if you get heads on your first two flips, the chance you will get two more heads, before your opponent gets four tails is: 81.25% What does this mean? There is no "momentum" in being up 2-0

Sarah Langs@slangsonsports.bsky.social

In all best-of-seven postseason series, teams with a 2-0 lead have gone on to win the series 80 of 96 times (83%) In series with the current 2-3-2 format, teams taking a 2-0 lead at home have gone on to win 47 of 58 times (81%)

www.nytimes.com/athletic/771... From 2022-26, The Athletic's analysis found that payroll accounted for 17 percent of the variance in a team's winning percentage in a single season. Not very strong.It's similar to the relationship between team wins and how many ground balls a team's pitchers induce.

nytimes.comDoes MLB have a competitive balance problem? We ran the numbers to find out (Gift Article)What does competitive balance actually mean? With a small-market World Series about to begin, MLB's salary cap fight hinges on that answer.

Great concert tonight in the city - youbet who opened for Wishy! Been wanting to see Wishy for a year and so glad caught them; reminded me of Good Flying Birds a bit and someone in crowd told me the bands lived together in Indiana - love it. And def give youbet a listen!

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I think he just handed the players union the perfect talking point for the next few months.

"Le Chonk"@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com

hand to god, when @marcnormandin.bsky.social sent me this quote in a chat this morning I did not believe it was real www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ori...

Hats off to the Brewers. You were the better team during the season and were relentless in the LCS against my Dodgers. The baseball gods are behind you - go grab that first championship!

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Luxury tax payrolls of teams in MLB's LCS matchups, according to Spotrac: 1st- Dodgers ($433 million) 19th- Brewers ($154.7 million) 27th- Rays ($113.2 million) 29th- Guardians ($92.58 million)

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The league-wide strikeout rate has now declined in each of the last four seasons. The strikeout rate either increased or sustained every season from 2005-2020, so this decline is rather welcomed.

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MLB Pitches Thrown At 98+ MPH: 2008: 3,756 2009: 5,601 2010: 6,406 2011: 5,775 2012: 7,199 2013: 7,210 2014: 8,585 2015: 12,169 2016: 13,609 2017: 11,147 2018: 10,539 2019: 10,971 2021: 15,030 2022: 19,357 2023: 20,605 2024: 18,649 2025: 25,687 2026: 31,686

Fascinating to watch Orioles finish the 7th but eliminated Blue Jays challenged that 2nd baseman who made final out of the inning was on outfield grass with first pitch. Pause the 7th inning stretch as out overturned, player awarded a single. So Trey Gibson has to come back out, can’t finish inning

Stuck somewhere outside of Foxborough - the train to Boston and my Fenway visit delayed by the ghastly described “strike of a trespasser on the tracks,” holding trains in both directions. Prayers to the sadly departed

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Congratulations to Twins fans. Not only because they get to see Walker Jenkins play. But also because they no longer have to hear anyone say with a straight face that an elite-level prospect shouldn't be called up in order to maybe play Triple-A games during a possible lockout.

Midterm ad idea Target: Rural areas Republicans let Elon Musk cut thousands of Department of Agriculture jobs Now farmers are suffering to get basic services like loans, grants and technical assistance Now Elon Musk’s net worth has grown over 200 billion higher since then …

“I believe government can and should work for you, not to line my or my contributors’ pockets” [local politician] Republicans aren’t working for you, elect someone who will, elect [local politician]

Watching the news drip, Mark Walter looks like he's in trouble and hopefully it won't drag down the Dodgers; but it's F1 Cadillac team owner Dan Towriss that signed the insurance company statements - a super good read re the shady moves and money flow. mispricedassets.substack.com/p/the-number...

mispricedassets.substack.comThe Numbers PersonMark Walter's insurers are under grand jury subpoena. Every filing they're being investigated for carries the same signature, and it isn't his.

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Pete Crow-Armstrong's performance tonight -- featuring 2 HRs, 2B, 1B, BB, K, SB and 3 RBIs -- added 0.5 fWAR to his season total, which is wild. 12 qualified MLB hitters have produced an fWAR less than that this season, including Kyle Tucker (0.4).

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Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.