Patrick Dubuque
@euqubud.baseballprospectus.com
bbwaa // writer with a thrift store degree // managing editor @ baseball prospectus
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Writing a baseball article and taking shots at the Garfield board game of 1981, feels good. This is what I was meant to do with my life
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Today @baseballprospectus.com, the start of a long journey through time. Offseasons are optional, anymore. Opt out of this one for a bit and travel back to the 1983 ALCS; we have a lot to learn. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Quantum Leap: 10 Things You Need to Know About the 1983 ALCS | Baseball Prospectus
Things are different, but perhaps not as different as you might assume.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today @baseballprospectus.com, the start of a long journey through time. Offseasons are optional, anymore. Opt out of this one for a bit and travel back to the 1983 ALCS; we have a lot to learn. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
He says that but I'm going to look up the Angels B-Ref page in July and he'll have thrown 100 innings for them
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
He says that but I'm going to look up the Angels B-Ref page in July and he'll have thrown 100 innings for them
Musk walking around dual-wielding books, glancing back and forth from one to the other, asking his subordinates if this is anything
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Musk walking around dual-wielding books, glancing back and forth from one to the other, asking his subordinates if this is anything
The latest on the Clase/Ortiz gambling scandal: what we know, what we desperately wish we knew, and how the combination of probabilistic sports fan brain and true crime culture is going to make it torture waiting this story out.
Emmanuel Clase, Luis L. Ortiz Indicted in Prop Betting Scandal | Baseball Prospectus
What does it mean for MLB? We'll have to wait and see, despite our instincts.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The latest on the Clase/Ortiz gambling scandal: what we know, what we desperately wish we knew, and how the combination of probabilistic sports fan brain and true crime culture is going to make it torture waiting this story out.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
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Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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winter ball ensures that the season never truly ends. Johan Rojas is always playing center field somewhere www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...
MLU: Rediscovering Rojas | Baseball Prospectus
Philly's former center fielder is, for the moment, their current center fielder, and he's making his case in LIDOM.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
winter ball ensures that the season never truly ends. Johan Rojas is always playing center field somewhere www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...
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I wrote about a system so thin I started making Dr. Seuss jokes instead of trying to ordinally rank the 5th round sixth year college senior closer against the 4th round up and down bench outfielder in the teens www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...
2026 Prospects: Philadelphia Phillies Top Prospects | Baseball Prospectus
Top-heavy is a common descriptor for farm systems, but it's truer here than in most places.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I wrote about a system so thin I started making Dr. Seuss jokes instead of trying to ordinally rank the 5th round sixth year college senior closer against the 4th round up and down bench outfielder in the teens www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...
Wrote up a brief synopsis of the latest on MLB's gambling scandal, because it isn't really the beginning or the end of the story. People are going to be obsessed with why Clase would do it, but the vital thing is establishing what he did first. (Then, if he did, banishing him to the phantom zone.)
Emmanuel Clase, Luis L. Ortiz Indicted in Prop Betting Scandal | Baseball Prospectus
What does it mean for MLB? We'll have to wait and see, despite our instincts.
www.baseballprospectus.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Wrote up a brief synopsis of the latest on MLB's gambling scandal, because it isn't really the beginning or the end of the story. People are going to be obsessed with why Clase would do it, but the vital thing is establishing what he did first. (Then, if he did, banishing him to the phantom zone.)
Thrilled for Brendan and thrilled for us that we get to read Brendan. It's time for the public sphere to take all the great writers back, pillage MLB until there's nothing left but empty suits
Well if it isn’t just the best news. @bgawlowski.bsky.social is a gem, Fangraphs is better for having him, and now I can mock him in public again.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thrilled for Brendan and thrilled for us that we get to read Brendan. It's time for the public sphere to take all the great writers back, pillage MLB until there's nothing left but empty suits
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Very excited to welcome @bgawlowski.bsky.social back to the site as our new prospect writer!
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Very excited to welcome @bgawlowski.bsky.social back to the site as our new prospect writer!
Admire the hell out of this restaurant’s commitment to the Chicago font
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Admire the hell out of this restaurant’s commitment to the Chicago font
Time to turn in your bios and acknowledgments for the Annual, people
Jeffrey Leonard
LF-DH-RF
Debut: 1977 - Retired: 1990
SFG - MIL - LAD - HOU - SEA
LF-DH-RF
Debut: 1977 - Retired: 1990
SFG - MIL - LAD - HOU - SEA
Jeffrey Leonard at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Jeffrey Leonard
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November 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Time to turn in your bios and acknowledgments for the Annual, people
how did this never make it on a baseball card
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
how did this never make it on a baseball card
You laugh, but the basketball court is very afraid and makes itself this color to warn you not to eat it
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
You laugh, but the basketball court is very afraid and makes itself this color to warn you not to eat it
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Finally ready to explain the fundies recession: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/time-to-ad...
Time To Address The Fundies
A take.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Finally ready to explain the fundies recession: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/time-to-ad...
Munetaka Murakami will be posted on Friday
I will be posting on Friday
We're not that different, really
I will be posting on Friday
We're not that different, really
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Munetaka Murakami will be posted on Friday
I will be posting on Friday
We're not that different, really
I will be posting on Friday
We're not that different, really
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Every year I say I am gonna spend less time mucking around with the order of guys outside of the top ten and then I never do. Doesn’t help when you have a glut of good but samey prospects like the Brewers. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...
2026 Prospects: Milwaukee Brewers Top Prospects | Baseball Prospectus
Three WARP is hidden in unexpected places, at least for this organization.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Every year I say I am gonna spend less time mucking around with the order of guys outside of the top ten and then I never do. Doesn’t help when you have a glut of good but samey prospects like the Brewers. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...
Jokes aside (and it is *extremely* difficult to put jokes aside), DePodesta's involvement with the DeShaun Watson trade is more gross than incompetent, and it's very incompetent. Sorry to the folks in Denver, you've already been through too much.
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Jokes aside (and it is *extremely* difficult to put jokes aside), DePodesta's involvement with the DeShaun Watson trade is more gross than incompetent, and it's very incompetent. Sorry to the folks in Denver, you've already been through too much.
The Rockies have officially evolved into a new form of Rockies
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Rockies have officially evolved into a new form of Rockies
Look, Rockies, I know you might have some doubts, but... do it. Do it. Do it for me
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Look, Rockies, I know you might have some doubts, but... do it. Do it. Do it for me
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OK, look. Some folks think I write for a "salary." That I do it to "feed my children." But that's a lie. The real reason I write is for you. Why else would I look at pictures of knee surgery, or compare line items on the Cincinnati Reds' budget, or think about Leody Taveras at all? It's FOR YOU.
TA: Jorge Polanco, Jorge Polanco's Knee Declare Free Agency | Baseball Prospectus
Meanwhile, the Reds declare themselves to be the Reds again in 2026.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
OK, look. Some folks think I write for a "salary." That I do it to "feed my children." But that's a lie. The real reason I write is for you. Why else would I look at pictures of knee surgery, or compare line items on the Cincinnati Reds' budget, or think about Leody Taveras at all? It's FOR YOU.
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We have the "finalists" for MVP, CY, ROY, and MOY, will get the winners next week. Let's break the suspense with the best players during the who got short shrift, or not shrift at all, in the 2025 @baseballprospectus.com Annual: The Vogelsong Awards!
The First Award of the Year: The Annual Vogelsong Awards | Baseball Prospectus
Honoring the best of the best of the overlooked.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We have the "finalists" for MVP, CY, ROY, and MOY, will get the winners next week. Let's break the suspense with the best players during the who got short shrift, or not shrift at all, in the 2025 @baseballprospectus.com Annual: The Vogelsong Awards!
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Really good look back at the offseason rumor mill circa 1985, from @stevengoldman.bsky.social today @baseballprospectus.com. Fun to dip into names and mechanisms of Way Back Then, but there are two other, more serious layers to the piece that make it great. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Gammo Flashback 40: Rumors and Pitfalls | Baseball Prospectus
With Sincere Affection for Peter Gammons.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Really good look back at the offseason rumor mill circa 1985, from @stevengoldman.bsky.social today @baseballprospectus.com. Fun to dip into names and mechanisms of Way Back Then, but there are two other, more serious layers to the piece that make it great. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
OK, look. Some folks think I write for a "salary." That I do it to "feed my children." But that's a lie. The real reason I write is for you. Why else would I look at pictures of knee surgery, or compare line items on the Cincinnati Reds' budget, or think about Leody Taveras at all? It's FOR YOU.
TA: Jorge Polanco, Jorge Polanco's Knee Declare Free Agency | Baseball Prospectus
Meanwhile, the Reds declare themselves to be the Reds again in 2026.
www.baseballprospectus.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
OK, look. Some folks think I write for a "salary." That I do it to "feed my children." But that's a lie. The real reason I write is for you. Why else would I look at pictures of knee surgery, or compare line items on the Cincinnati Reds' budget, or think about Leody Taveras at all? It's FOR YOU.
Have a massive headache tonight, so I can't drink my usual 9:00 PM coffee while I edit. But I still need something to work with, so I made a drink I used to make when I was a kid. I called it a Coconut Cocktail. Which is really dumb, because it has no alcohol and often no coconut
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Have a massive headache tonight, so I can't drink my usual 9:00 PM coffee while I edit. But I still need something to work with, so I made a drink I used to make when I was a kid. I called it a Coconut Cocktail. Which is really dumb, because it has no alcohol and often no coconut