Season Preview month continues for Five & Dive as we head into the National League West, land of contrasts, home of baseball's best team, worst team, and most average team.
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Season Preview month continues for Five & Dive as we head into the National League West, land of contrasts, home of baseball's best team, worst team, and most average team.
DOZENS OF US
As someone who’s spent most of the winter thinking “Won’t somebody PLEASE sign Danny Coulombe?!” this really speaks to me
He almost got there! As another strikeout king once said, "they don't boo nobodies."
I'm unironically happy that Chris Davis made the Orioles Hall of Fame. We are each of us more than what we make
I really enjoyed this piece. It's set to basic, so you can read it even without a sub if you're logged in
A day after writing up Zack Littell, I swung the pendulum all the way to the other end and wrote about... Danny Coulombe
I dunno, maybe they got crossed up and the receiver was supposed to run an out route
A scorebug that subtly changes color to reflect the current vibe
Plus: far, far too many thoughts about 2026 Alex Verdugo, for god knows what reason
The Nationals signed Zack Littell, for some reason. I wrote about it, for more obvious reasons. Plus all the other recent minor deals of note:
Tragic: Area Man Who Quit His Office Job a Couple Years Ago Finally Running Out of Stolen Office Supplies
Stop calling things a young man's game. They're all young mens' games, except bridge and Tecmo Super Bowl
Korea might be the Lotte Giants of the WBC
Shouting “go sports” across the escalators at the dude in the Jason Witten jersey
Took my kid to comic con, only one person so far has complimented me on my Frank Thomas jersey
Can I offer you a White Sox season preview in this trying time? No? Would it help if I spent most of it comparing the franchise to the evolution of dystopian literature? No?
Bold predictions for 2026: This year, at some point, a baserunner caught in a rundown will throw pocket sand to avoid a tag
One way in which the sport did presage the cyberpunk vision was the establishment of a collection of all-powerful, highly centralized corporations scarcely bothered by a weak central government. Jerry Reinsdorf is the model antagonist for the cyberpunk genre, a nonagenarian propped up by million-dollar medicine, surrounded by sycophants and failsons, bribing the shit out of everyone with a whiff of political power, and crushing the lives of individuals like it’s his sole hobby. Jerry Reinsdorf, the real person in real life, has never had anyone killed. It would be legally dubious to make the claim. Cyberpunk Jerry Reinsdorf? He’s hired a fixer to disappear a relief pitcher for complaining about locker room conditions. You know it.
Can I offer you a White Sox season preview in this trying time? No? Would it help if I spent most of it comparing the franchise to the evolution of dystopian literature? No?
Our annual division preview series has begun on Five & Dive. @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com, @jeffreypaternostro.bsky.social and I talk NL East, where the surprises are rare, and the vibes are largely questionable.
Long after my writing is forgotten, my legacy at BP will probably be my courage to use Excel to make art
robber baron pizza
extremely excited to have @maddiellandis.bsky.social's first post up at @baseballprospectus.com! It's on the WBC roster composition, nationality, and identity. Maddie will be writing for us regularly throughout the season, which is another thing I'm jazzed about.
Finished reading a biography of Pétain and the biggest surprise was that France was still doing the “let’s punish this villain by sticking him on a random island” thing in 1950
Good morning. Today marks the final entry of TA06. Fittingly, it takes us through a tour of retirements and last-chance NRIs, with names that made a huge impact in the discourse of the time, if not on the field: Petagine, Durazo, and Kieschnick.
Thanks, Ed. After 94 and 06, maybe the next one will be 88. Or 68
Good morning. Today marks the final entry of TA06. Fittingly, it takes us through a tour of retirements and last-chance NRIs, with names that made a huge impact in the discourse of the time, if not on the field: Petagine, Durazo, and Kieschnick.
