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Editor-in-Chief, Baseball Prospectus | I make the negativity come alive.
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Screenshot of MLB network showing a Michael Baumann (joke) post from 2018: Trevor Bauer says that the doctors' timeline for his return is based on outdated mainstream medicine and he's begun a course of blood transfusions and colloidal silver to rid his body of CIA nanites. He anticipates missing two starts, three tops.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Greg Bovino: Commander Op At Large CA Gre... • X.com @CMDROpAtLargeCA Unfortunately, we see unhinged activists bring babies or children into potentially volatile or unpredictable situations. Are they crazy?? Keep children away from law enforcement situations. Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo.1h Kenner, La. (Dec. 5) — An open borders activist uses a baby as a human shield while demanding Border Patrol leave. 1:09 EEDOMNEWS.TV 3:41 PM • 12/5/25 • 1.3K Views Tom Cruise as Lt. Kaffee in a Few Good Men: If you gave an order that Santiago wasn't to be touched, and your orders are always followed, then why would Santiago be in danger?
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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it's not perfect but I need to post it to get it out of my brain
trump picking up his medal like a ponce Smiegel with the ring
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Crilge: sometimes you just know a baumann headline when you see one Michael: I didn't think I'd get to use that one
December 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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my brain, every time someone writes or talks about Cody Ponce:
Ponce de Leon from Clone High
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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thanks to @justinklugh.bsky.social for taking us inside an MLB Fan Council meeting, and for @dbrim.com for the 📸:

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GOB Bluth and the Alliance of Magicians but one has Dinger the mascots head and the banner says "MLB FAN COUNCIL" As you’ve explained to the press, we’ve never even had a conversation about the upcoming CBA negotiations. We were simply talking about adjacent topics to the CBA negotiations and then organically, the CBA negotiations came up! Ignore the clickbait articles that misconstrue all of this into some sort of pro-management propaganda hose just because it’s a direct line from the league to fans, who can in turn reach thousands of other fans, established just before some presumably hostile CBA negotiations. MLB, or “The MLB” as we insiders call it, isn’t trying to sway anyone one way or another! We’re simply setting up a perfect way to do that! Not that it would be that bad, right, Rockies fan? Take it from one of your very own: As a Rockies fan, I know the only thing between my team and a trophy is the Los Angeles Dodgers. That’s why they hired the Dodgers’ senior vice president of baseball operations to be their GM: So that he could warn us when we start spending too much money like the Dodgers. And I know I’m not being fed a narrative—because if that were to happen, I would simply realize it.
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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okay, yes, that's very good, but I wanted to do this one, with the banner saying "MLB Fan Council" and then mascot heads or logos over all the faces or something (please don't waste your time doing this)
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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also, I've been team smaller glove for going on 5 years now:

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Smaller Gloves One of the biggest problems plaguing the game right now isn’t merely that there are fewer balls in play than in the past, thanks to the three-true outcome approach adopted by hitters in response to the dominance of pitchers, but rather that when a ball is hit in play, it’s finding a glove rather than dirt or grass. Rather than an indirect solution that hinges on overwhelming defenses that have improved via positioning, shifts, better athleticism, and stronger arms, there’s a direct path: make the gloves smaller. The benefits here are obvious: the game maintains its reliance on abundant athleticism and can still make use of all the research that informs positioning, it just makes the literal act of fielding that much harder. An added bonus: the changes benefit groundballs and liners more than fly balls, punishing the uppercut swing. A higher BABIP follows and we all spend a half-season recalibrating what we thought was a playable ball on defense. We survive the ensuing Web Gem shortage.
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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this is the one that got me
JMGregorchuk: this might be needed [QT of a blueprint of a room with a 72" table with 13 toilets around it]
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Mary Cosby, Angie K, and Andy Cohen on the set of a Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Reunion
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Frank's Red Hot spicy gummy bear
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Pie No. 11: Coffee S'mores Pie #PieNight2025
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Pie No. 10: Lemon Meringue Pie #PieNight2025
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Pie No. 9: Pear Cranberry Pie w/Crumb Topping (#2)
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Pie No. 8: Apple Cinnamon Texas Sheet Cake
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Pie No. 7: Pear Cranberry Pie w/Crumb Topping (#1)
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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ours is a rescue too, but definitely that mix. looked pretty similar
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Pie No. 6: Pecan Pie #PieNight2025
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Pie No. 5: Sweet Potato Pie #PieNight2025
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Pie No. 4: Root Beer Float Pie #PieNigjht2025
Basically just a frozen pie top that is a bit slanted bc it was in the freezer at an angle. Not much to look at tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Pie No. 3: Fudge Pie #PieNight2025
Fudge Pie on a marble island
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Pie No. 2: Cranberry Upside Down Cake #PieNight2025
Cranberry Upside Down Cake on a glass platter on a marble island
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Pie No. 1: Cinnamon Pie #PieNight2025
a cinnamon pie, with some cracking around the edge. Hasn't cooked yet. Sitting with crimped crust on a stove top
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Sonny Gray is pretty fun because the various WAR models disagree about him (especially 2025) a fair bit. Anyway, Boston fans, you're welcome to become WARP stans now
Sonny Gray's last four seasons, with his 76 DRA- and 4.7 WARP highlighted for 2025
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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okay that's a hefty amount of change going to Boston. Like this move a lot for them.
Chris Cotillo @ChrisCotillo · 4m Red Sox are receiving $20 million from the Cardinals.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM