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Patrick Dubuque
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bbwaa // writer with a thrift store degree // managing editor @ baseball prospectus
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Morning, all. @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com, @ginnysearle.bsky.social and I put together a quick TA for all the recent reliever signings, and I was extremely helpful.

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“The Cincinnati Reds signed left-handed pitcher Caleb Ferguson to a one-year, four-point-five million dollar contract.” Consider those words. Imagine saying them, aloud, to anyone, in any context. Your wife, home from her graveyard shift, her eyes bearing dark circles, hair unkempt, the first slashes of gray appearing in them. She tells you about her day, about the kid who was in some freak yachting accident, how he almost bled out, but they worked through breaks and got him enough blood to pull through. You listen to it all, nodding. Afterwards, you say, “The Cincinnati Reds signed left-handed pitcher Caleb Ferguson to a one-year, four-point-five million dollar contract.” Your son says he’s starting to mess around with writing a song. That’s great, he always fought the guitar lessons, but maybe it’s finally clicked. He plays—it sounds awful, of course, but that doesn’t matter. But then he stops. “You seem distracted, (parental nickname of choice),” he says. “Sorry,” you say, shaking yourself out of your reverie. “I was listening. It sounds great. I really like how you used the B-string. But I couldn’t stop thinking about how the Cincinnati Reds signed left-handed pitcher Caleb Ferguson to a one-year, four-point-five million dollar contract.”
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The transaction analysis will continue until morale improves. Today: Kelly, Houser, Griffin, May, and Danny Backstop.

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((redacted))
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Nabokov
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Starting to think that maybe my cat might be a Bad Cat
A cat that has climbed into a fridge. It is bad
December 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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This is the “he has a dominant low-90s fastball” of football facts
A 1983 Topps Ron Jaworski card noting that he threw a pass 57 yards the previous year
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Sherwin Williams logo-ass trophy
Sherwin Williams logo, with a paint bucket pouring red paint over a globe, with the words "cover the earth." gross
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Embarrassing gaffe by the production crew. Bochte got married when he was 22 years old, before he even made the majors
Bruce Bochte
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Every once in a while I chuckle at the "metaphor" jpeg I stuck in the BP media library, and link to once in a while. I don't think anyone has ever found it
METAPHOR
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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pulled a 1/1 eggnog
Limited edition eggnog. It tastes fine
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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At last, the top 20 of our Top 50 Free Agent rankings are available to BP subscribers. I did my part, but @ginnysearle.bsky.social really had her fastball going:

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Reasons for Optimism: Look, if you’re living in a world of Brandon Woodruff optimism, far be it from me to spoil it for you. In your world are the prices for fast food not double what they used to be, if you’re lucky? Do the appliances in your house, which you have on a regular, old 30-year mortgage—what other kind could you be thinking of, 15—work not only as well as, but better than the 30-year-old ones? Have you ever even heard of a shadow docket? Woodruff is going to start 32 games next year, no, 33, and he’s going to average just a hair under six innings per start, just like way back in the USA in the good ol’ year of 2021. Everything’s going to be as good as it used to be, again. Nothing ever happened, in fact. Nothing ever happens.
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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We're halfway through the list. It's almost time to get serious, but luckily, not yet time to get serious
Reasons for Pessimism: This pitcher told me batters keep hitting baseballs into the bleachers so I asked how many baseballs he has and he said the umpire gives him a new baseball afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding baseballs to bleachers and then all the Cubs fans nearby started crying.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Nipper blasts Cubs after he gets his release' Gossage also is cut "Gossage's release came hours after he pitches two scoreless innings against the Oakland Athletics Monday night. That dropped his spring earned-run average to 0.82, better than any other pitcher on the club."
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Admire the hell out of this restaurant’s commitment to the Chicago font
The menu of a poké restaurant. It was pretty good
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Yeah, Hostess seemed to capture the essence best in the era. No cards without the cap, though, not quite the same with the cap
1979 Hostess Steve Carlton
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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how did this never make it on a baseball card
steve carlton in 1977 with new game+ hair
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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My season review for the champs turned into a wide-lens offseason preview for the league as a whole. On the Dodgers, who are exactly as evil as fans and MLB need them to be:

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The Dodgers make a ton of money, and spend a ton of money. These are not unrelated concepts. Like many high-payroll franchises, their large stacks allow them to recover from wild swings more easily, create redundancies and insurance plans for themselves. But many low-payroll franchises, using this same logic, have made the calculation that their position frees them from the responsibility of taking swings at all. They don’t bother to invest in scouting, or research, or even speculate in high-ceiling fliers. You can’t salary cap a team into caring; it can only punish the teams that do. The Dodgers, for all their other faults, do want to win. Solving the Dodger Problem requires squashing a lot of stuff that shouldn’t be squashed.
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I know the urge is to look forward, leap straight into the offseason business of declined mutual options and such. But there's plenty of time for that. So for one more day, here's a reflection on the best game in the best World Series in recent memory.

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There were no great teams, but there was a lot of great baseball. Everyone loves to worship a god, and this World Series had them on both sides of the aisle, men who took over games and took on an aura of invincibility, right up until the alarm went off the next morning. They also love it when guys come out of nowhere to make humongous plays, and they love redemption stories. This series had room for all of them. It had room for everything, except two winners.
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Two people playing one video game by each holding half the controller
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Follow-up exercise: At what resolution does Eddie Murray become unrecognizable

24x40: Very clearly Eddie Murray
18x30: Probably still Eddie Murray, but without eyes
12x20: Might possibly be Eddie Murray, might possibly be a human being
8x13: Barely unwrapped candy bar
very clearly Eddie Murray, 24x40 Probably still Eddie Murray, but without eyes oh god
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Thinking about creating a useless bluesky account that just posts logos of fake sports teams from video games
Logo of the Detroit Unions, from the NES title Ultimate Basketball
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I mean, a little harsh, but particularly today, not unfair
baseball pseudointellectual Mariners fatalist editor
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This one's free to read with a basic sub, since mods are asleep, etc. Hope you enjoy.
Momentum doesn’t exist on the baseball field, but it should thrive in the conditions just outside the walls. T-Mobile Park had given witness to two consecutive massacres of the hometown nine, and you’d be forgiven for assuming that the stadium would carry the atmosphere of a plague ship, idling at port. But as the center field gate opened and the stream of people cascaded into the Pen, T-Mobile’s centerfield urban commons, there was no evidence. Instead, it remained the hive of scum and villainy it always is, April through September: Clean, blinking frat boys confused by their own sobriety, like sailors unsure of their legs after stepping on firm land. It is, after all, just 1:00. Old men in colorful windbreakers, scanning the crowd for nothing in particular, memorizing the exits. One man, old enough to know better, wearing a full-sized banana suit, complete with sticker that reads “I Am a Banana.” Before the game starts, the fans are the focus. Younger boys and girls fight their way to the rail, the allure of the pregame-used baseball more powerful, more gravitational than anything else in existence. It’s Toronto’s turn for batting practice, but when a baseball might be tossed into a waiting glove, even foes are friends for a moment.
October 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This happened to me on the concourse as I was taking notes pre-game. I didn't mention it at the time because the portent of such a thing wasn't clear, but in retrospect it appears to have been a rally shoe
I really liked that shoe
October 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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baseball
two people who are part of the same play, but very much not part of the same play
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Wait, hold up a sec. I don’t care about the technicalities. “Game-used intentional walk baseball” is stretching it a little for me
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM