Shaun Newkirk

Stood up in my living room and clapped when those drums first started playing man. An all time TV moment for me.

With FanGraphs projections now being pretty fully baked, looking at which players make up the highest percentage of both their side of the team and their total team projected WAR. Highlighted blue players who account for 20%+ of their team's pitching/hitting WAR projection

How is AI a person? How could that be half of the people on a planet when they aren't people? Are autonomous cars people?

Ended up reading both The Road and No Country in a week. Road was just okay, but No Country is probably now my favorite book of all time (tied with White Noise). On to Blood Meridian first then Suttree.

October Sky. Like 50 times.

Pretty neat to see a scatterplot this clean. It's barrel% and xwOBACON for every batter since 2015 (min. 300 PA season) (and yes all five of the top right bubbles are Aaron Judge)

Daniel Murphy when he sees the Mets pride shirts:

This is actually a funny point raised here: the Royals catchers are so good at preventing steals when they happen, it prevents them from having opportunities to throw out runners (and turn a hit/walk into an out) and thus, not add the value other teams have with lower rates!

Am I crazy or did NFL Pro add new split filters?

No joke, Rich Hill is only 4 degrees of separation from Babe Ruth. Rich Hill -> Greg Maddux -> Goose Gossage -> Hank Sauer -> Billy Werber -> Babe Ruth

Here is the what I would do mock draft, based off team needs (per PFF), the consensus big board rankings, and how I think about positional value mostly in the draft

Called out, challenge not given

Nugget from Dane Brugler's AMA. Looking at some various trackers, Ruben Hyppolite has had a top 30 visit to the Lions and a private workout with the Patriots.

DK thinks Jalen Milroe is more likely to go in the first round than Luther Burden

How can that be profitable for 7Up?

Royals lineup every night is Bob Witt Jr turning a single into a double and then a prayer that the rest of the lineup can put together four consecutive singles off of 80 MPH exit velo batted balls

Basically the easiest way to know if a player is good or not is how quickly they get extended. Getting an 8-year extension 20 plate appearances into your career pretty much is star level talent.

Obviously a comically small sample size, but here is the reported list of torpedo bat users and their hitting so far. Combined for a .284/.365/.537 (148 wRC+) line

People say "what for the guarantees" when an NFL contract gets announced, but I'm proposing we say "wait for Jason's breakdown at OTC" instead overthecap.com/thoughts-on-...

Watched some Tyler Warren last night and...he's just insane? Likely comically big and dominant. Give me him over Loveland. (note: I'm consistently wrong on these things so ignore me))

Chiefs playing Joe Thuney at left tackle somehow made it into a bit on Last Week Tonight...

Nets to be something like a mid-6th pickup for Buffao plus they get the $2.6M cap savings when they are pretty tight against the cap. Doesn't quite recoup what they net paid for Elam but it's not that far off (ignoring the value they lost with the pick itself)

Looking at Joey Bosa's numbers, his get off time has stayed the same, but his time to pressure, pressure rate, and sack rate have all gone down. Could it be his reaction skill has stayed the same, but his physical movements have been reduced due to injury?

Here are the teams that roughly have done well in free agency so far

Seen some valid chatter that the Chiefs signing Fulton allows McDuffie to play in the slot more, which makes me think that when it comes time to extend McDuffie, you can't pay him like an elite outside corner ($25M APY)? Maybe closer to nickel DB or free safety?

Jets should throw the contract behind his head before he signs just to make sure he's able to turn around and look for it in the air

*Troy Aikman voice* Paulson Adebo

I kinda think I'd rather have Darnold at 3/$100Mish than Geno + a 3rd rounder for the same? But at the same time, you need to also spend on the line too, so there is more investment needed for Darnold (though Geno would have been nice to have a better line for too).