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i still believe that. editor @ baseball prospectus
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PECTOA 2026: PECOTA Superlatives
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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PECTOA 2026: PECOTA Superlatives | Baseball Prospectus
Honoring this year's class.
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February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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this the fourth year i've done PECOTA superlatives since creating it, and every year i strive to make it stranger
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The Perennial 101st Annual Gabriel García Márquez Award for Magical Realism: Ayumu Ishikawa, Twins Oosterhaut At Baseball Prospectus, we draw much of our identifying player information directly from MLB’s databases. So when you dutifully each year sort each PECOTA sheet by player height and weight, as I and we all do, you were surely struck, as was I, by new NPB export Ishikawa’s buoyant weight, which is reflected on his MLB page as 17 pounds. If I had to guess, I’d say that Ishikawa has been affected by a curious affliction whereby he loses weight on the scale not visibly in evidence, but nevertheless with an absolute effect on his ability to influence the world around him. If we use Stephen King’s research paper Elevation as a reasonable yardstick of Ishikawa’s half-life, I’d say he’s got just about until Opening Day before he floats away entirely. If that seems cruel, just before his pending international debut, King et at. would note that “what you deserve has nothing to do with where you finish.” Ishikawa can take heart, though: “In their time of dying, everybody rises.”
February 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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wrote about the tigers/mlb's big-brained decision to lowball a back-to-back cy young winner in arbitration, and foreseeable consequences
$kubal | Baseball Prospectus
It's sure magnanimous of the league to give players on MLBPA's executive committee bulletin board material!
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February 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Morning, all. Since the offseason is winding down, @ginnysearle.bsky.social, @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com and I took a moment to look at which teams forgot to turn in their homework.

Also, I made up a woman named Marge who's going to die in the next eight months, and felt bad for her.
Six Teams Putting the Off in Offseason | Baseball Prospectus
Not everyone can be the Dodgers. But not everyone can do nothing, either.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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A Giant Shadow
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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A Giant Shadow | Baseball Prospectus
San Francisco's rebuttal to the Dodgers' massive offseason leaves much to be desired.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Kyle Tucker, The Culmination of Dodgers Baseball
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Kyle Tucker, The Culmination of Dodgers Baseball | Baseball Prospectus
In signing the sport's top free agent, the Dodgers are delivering on a promise.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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TA: A Change in the Weathers
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social) and Michael Donodeo (mdonodeo.bsky.social)
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TA: A Change in the Weathers | Baseball Prospectus
A trade that supplies the Marlins with quantity, and the Yankees with the hope of quantity.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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as someone who's been waiting on the winds of winter for more than half my life that thr interview is really something
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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it'd be bold if the astros end up pushing into 2026 with (more or less) their current roster, or get worse like they did from 2024>25. dumb, but bold
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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the wild card round rarely saw Game 3s, but this year there are three of them. @ginnysearle.bsky.social is on the case (and previews our ALWC G3 matchups:

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Listen to me. We don’t have much time. Rob Manfred is the reason this is all happening. He has compromising information on the most senior executives of the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers, and he’s not afraid to use it. I’m talking like, really heinous stuff, the sort of shit these guys would just never, ever come back from. No, not crimes, obviously, way worse (meaning, more damaging to future job prospects). He’s got pictures of all these guys in off-brand athleisure. I’m not even talking lulu, Manfred’s got these guys dead to rights in discount-color separates from Target, Kohl’s, and, even, in the case of one particularly embarrassed mid-40s white man, Old Navy. I know, shocking. So, you wanna know who the Manfred Man is? Every single one of these gentlemen, and when the commissioner says we can’t have another year with four two-game sweeps in the Wild Card Series, well, they’re yours. [A door bangs open] HEL-lo commissioner, how are you? Us? Oh, we were just talking about the 2025 Postseason Picture, presented by Adobe, the best way to graphically represent and understand the road to the 2025 World Series, presented by Capital One and exclusively on FOX. What a dazzling bit of success for the Wild Card Series, almost as big as the STRAUSS logos featured prominently on every batting helmet! [Editor’s Note: This introduction was written before the Dodgers game finished last night, obviously disproving the hypothesis in the introduction. Rest assured, BP does not claim that Rob Manfred pressured teams to lose to bring balance to the new playoff format, and the fact that a five-page spread was published this morning depicting various Los Angeles executives in ill-fitting Kirkland Signature windbreakers incorrectly monogrammed with the middle initial in the center is clearly coincidental. BP asks that you respect the families of those mortified executives at this time.]
October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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AL Wild Card Game 3 Previews
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
AL Wild Card Game 3 Previews | Baseball Prospectus
Not one, not two, but three Game 3s? Something's up—and it's not Fall spirit.
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October 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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2025 Postseason Primer
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2025 Postseason Primer | Baseball Prospectus
The playoffs are here, almost. But you can be all the way prepared.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Trade Deadline Winners/Losers
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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Trade Deadline Winners/Losers | Baseball Prospectus
"Sometimes I think it's a sin When I feel like I'm winning, when I'm losing again -Gordon Lightfoot" -Jed Hoyer"
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August 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Transaction Analysis: Don’t Tell Jim Crane There Are No Second Acts In American Life
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
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Transaction Analysis: Don't Tell Jim Crane There Are No Second Acts In American Life | Baseball Prospectus
We're pretty sure there's a Twins joke here.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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it was controversial, but i think the angels holding onto ohtani this trade deadline will prove to be the best move when they get back to october and re-sign him over the winter
July 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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sometimes a subhed is just for you
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Transaction Analysis: Helsley Bites the Apple, Duran Rings the Bell subhed "I think the apple's rotten right to the core / from all the things passed down from pitchers throwing 99 before."
July 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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in which i explain why i don't think the red sox will move devers away from 3b soon (john henry). thanks to craig for the extremely good/dumb headline
February 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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i always have fun doing the superlatives
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February 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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if you haven't already, please take the time to read and vote for your preferred articles for the 2025 SABR awards. It's a big deal to the nominees, and the pieces are very much worth your time. I'm including the link on our site, but you can vote at FanGraphs, SABR, or the IBWAA, too:
2025 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards: Voting Open Now! | Baseball Prospectus
Here’s your chance to vote for the 2025 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards winners.
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February 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I analyzed a bunch of transactions today for BP. First, I compared Gleyber Torres to a lightly salted cauliflower steak and broke down exactly how Teoscar Hernández's money is arriving and being spent. (Mad at myself at forgetting anti-deferred money in the form of silver certificates.)
TA: While We Were Sleeping | Baseball Prospectus
Breaking down the signings of Teoscar Hernández and Gleyber Torres.
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January 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Red Sox Get Crochet in Another White Sox Fire Sale
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
Red Sox Get Crochet in Another White Sox Fire Sale | Baseball Prospectus
The Red Sox have been here before, if not recently.
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December 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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Transaction Analysis: A Rising Tide Comes to Queens
by Ginny Searle (@ginnysearle.bsky.social)
Transaction Analysis: A Rising Tide Comes to Queens | Baseball Prospectus
The Mets are really, truly done with being a junior team.
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December 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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a sign of deep ideological bias over at wikipedia that ben affleck's personal life section has subsections for "relationship with jennifer lopez" and "relationship with jennifer garner" but not for "relationship with matt damon"
December 6, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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this is laugh-out-loud funny and i just want to make it known that justin is one of the most original and talented baseball writers around
December 6, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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This is so good @ginnysearle.bsky.social
Quoted text "As a pitcher whose career is defined by a dominance as fleeting as his relationship with the strike zone..."
November 27, 2024 at 2:13 PM