High and Outside

no walk off homers in wbc history before today

2 today

feelin reckless tonite

Recapping the 2015-16 Offseason A deep dive into big moves whose outcomes we actually know

The same way we’d love now to peek into the future and see how Dylan Cease’s Toronto tenure or Grayson Rodriguez’s Angels adventure goes, 10 years ago we couldn’t wait to discover the fates of that offseason’s big moves. So let’s remind ourselves: what were those moves?

is it too late to start my own country & invite a few folks over & kick some ass in the WBC

baseball fans: PLEASE GIVE ME BASEBALL I’M STARVING

spring training: here’s a few innings of your favorite players half-trying, followed by a bunch of single-A guys you don’t know

baseball fans: I’LL TAKE WHAT I CAN GET, THANK YOU

Players who changed MLB organizations during the offseason who have the highest fWAR since, last 10 offseasons

Data sources: FanGraphs leaderboards and MLB transactions log. Data manipulation tool: RStudio.

there will be spring training games this week

THIS WEEK

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trying to keep up with advancements in baseball data/tech & how to apply them to better understand the game is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that keeps getting new pieces every day & they’re buried in the backyard

Turning 30 today. As a baseball fan I know this means one thing and one thing only. The decline is imminent.

I wish all industries worked like baseball.

“Sorry Jerry, you’re a great plumber but we’re offloading your contract to a company up in Minnesota. It’s just business. They’re sending us a couple young guys who seem to have some good raw plumbing skills. Maybe as good as you someday.”

LASR Explainer The primary guidebook for my LASR project.

This article will serve as the primary guidebook for my LASR project. All changes to the process and scope of LASR, both past and future, will be summarized in this article.

2026 wish list

- Rockies NLWC
- 10-inning perfect game loss
- more Cal Raleigh
- ABS challenge used on a pitchout
- Roman Anthony 14.2 WAR
- 19-15 & 2-1 games back-to-back
- Liam Hendriks comeback player of the year
- gummy worms replace sunflower seeds as favorite snack
- underwater all star game

The Collapse of the Qualifier And a solution I've applied to my LASR project

In this article, I dive deep into the history of the starting pitcher qualification threshold, the problems it currently poses, and a solution that I've already applied to my LASR project.

someday I’m gonna go to the winter meetings & leave little scraps of paper with the most dastardly rumors on them all over the place

I listened to every single episode + a significant chunk of the backlog this year (10 days worth of listening!?) & I’m STILL not in the top 1% of you weirdos???

playing OOTP stoned: oh shit I just spent 40 minutes deciding my 12th round draft pick

playing OOTP drunk: oh shit my shortstop’s had a broken foot for 5 weeks & hasn’t gotten a single day of rest

playing OOTP tripping: oh shit these guys are more real than I am

absolutely nothing hits better than the first “[Passan] BREAKING” of the offseason

going from the most intense games you could ever imagine to absolutely nothing is like shacking up in a log cabin with Margot Robbie for a month then at the end she ties you up, shoots you in the leg, and leaves you for dead

we got none of this? really? jeez what an awful, stupid, boring game

game 7 wish list:

- Blue Jays win
- Scherzer & Ohtani both pitch 5 innings
- Vlad & Mookie both hit a HR
- loose dog on the field
- go-ahead 2-run sac fly in the 8th inning
- loose cat on the field
- triple off the top of the wall, runner stranded at third
- ghost of Dazzy Vance
- loose bear on the

fuck it let’s make all baseball games 18 innings

LASR Beam: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. An analytical deep dive into Vladito's league-adjusted stats.

Trying something out: a LASR deep dive into a singular player. First up is the current hottest hitter on the planet.

just getting caught up, no spoilers please

if a loved one asks you to hang out with them in october & it doesn’t involve watching playoff baseball, that is not a loved one

winner take all playoff game going into the 9th inning all tied up & getting wild

oh shit sorry I thought this was pornhub

gonna tell my grandkids this was Walter Johnson

going to sleep after the yankees get eliminated feels like when the serial killer in your neighborhood finally gets caught & you breathe a little easier knowing you live in a safer world than you did this morning

one more person schedules an october meeting with me & it’s not specifically to discuss playoff baseball —> yer outta heyah

don’t invite me to any parties this month I swear to fuckin god