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Have boarded a fight which is full save for window seat in my row. I am on the aisle next to the one person in the world (could there possibly be more than one?) who would remain in middle seat and use window seat for pile of papers and notebooks he brought on board. Interesting, this.
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Have boarded a fight which is full save for window seat in my row. I am on the aisle next to the one person in the world (could there possibly be more than one?) who would remain in middle seat and use window seat for pile of papers and notebooks he brought on board. Interesting, this.
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Hello, Everybody blogs.fangraphs.com/hello-everyb...
Hello, Everybody
I’m excited to cover prospects and the minor leagues in ways that will inform and entertain readers.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Sunday Notes: An Ever-Diligent Daylen Lile Details His Cage Drills blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...
Sunday Notes: An Ever-Diligent Daylen Lile Details His Cage Drills
Plus Mariners prospect Jonny Farmelo, a Murakami or Sasaki question, the Lou Whitaker snub, remembering Taffy Wright, facts and stats galore, and more.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Sunday Notes: An Ever-Diligent Daylen Lile Details His Cage Drills blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...
Eight years later it is a second/different autoimmune disease. So it goes. One perseveres.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Eight years later it is a second/different autoimmune disease. So it goes. One perseveres.
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2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Don Mattingly blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Don Mattingly
For as iconic as “Donnie Baseball” was, his injury-shortened career left him with numbers far short of Hall of Fame-caliber.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Don Mattingly blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
Post from a different era (late '80s in Detroit)
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Post from a different era (late '80s in Detroit)
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Max Anderson Has Been the Arizona Fall Leagues’s Hottest Hitter blogs.fangraphs.com/max-anderson...
Max Anderson Has Been the Arizona Fall Leagues’s Hottest Hitter
The Detroit Tigers prospect raked during the regular season, and now he is scorching in the desert.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Max Anderson Has Been the Arizona Fall Leagues’s Hottest Hitter blogs.fangraphs.com/max-anderson...
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InstaGraphs: The Even Newer FanGraphs Mug Is Now Available! blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...
The Even Newer FanGraphs Mug Is Now Available!
We’ve got the very latest version of the FanGraphs Mug now available for sale. Drink your coffee every morning knowing that you have the newest and possibly best mug that we’ve ever sold…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Luis Arraez has played in 595 games and has 164 extra-base hits and 143 walks over the past four seasons. Nico Hoerner has played in 592 games and has 160 extra-base hits and 160 walks over the past four seasons.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Luis Arraez has played in 595 games and has 164 extra-base hits and 143 walks over the past four seasons. Nico Hoerner has played in 592 games and has 160 extra-base hits and 160 walks over the past four seasons.
What does one do as darkness falls on a November afternoon? Quaff a Guinness and read FanGraphs articles.
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
What does one do as darkness falls on a November afternoon? Quaff a Guinness and read FanGraphs articles.
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2026 Top 50 MLB Free Agents blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-top-50-...
2026 Top 50 MLB Free Agents
The most significant players to hit the open market this offseason, as compiled by Ben Clemens and the FanGraphs staff.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Seasonal Affective Disorder sucks. What time is it?
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Seasonal Affective Disorder sucks. What time is it?
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The Dodgers owe it to their fans, to the people of Los Angeles, to tell Trump NO, we will not visit the WH after what you’ve said & done to our city. @governor.ca.gov should explicitly call on the Dodgers to not go the WH, to stand with their fans instead.
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Dodgers owe it to their fans, to the people of Los Angeles, to tell Trump NO, we will not visit the WH after what you’ve said & done to our city. @governor.ca.gov should explicitly call on the Dodgers to not go the WH, to stand with their fans instead.
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Sunday Notes: ChiSox Prospect Hagen Smith Has a Killer Fastball/Slider Combo blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...
Sunday Notes: ChiSox Prospect Hagen Smith Has a Killer Fastball/Slider Combo
Plus Nelly Taylor on JR Ritchie, Pete Fairbanks on doing what he does, recalling Mickey Kluttz, Blake Butera was right about Junior Caminero, facts and stats galore, and more.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Sunday Notes: ChiSox Prospect Hagen Smith Has a Killer Fastball/Slider Combo blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...
The number of people watching this game and thinking, “For god sake, please stop talking so much” is almost assuredly not small.
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The number of people watching this game and thinking, “For god sake, please stop talking so much” is almost assuredly not small.
The true north strong and free. One more to go.
October 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The true north strong and free. One more to go.
Being a person who typically goes to bed early, writing a gamer for an 18-inning marathon that ends just short of 3am is not an especially pleasant experience. Helluva game though. Hopefully I got at least some of the words in the right order.
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Being a person who typically goes to bed early, writing a gamer for an 18-inning marathon that ends just short of 3am is not an especially pleasant experience. Helluva game though. Hopefully I got at least some of the words in the right order.
This is fantastic.
“It feels like we’re on the moon.”
In Canada’s northernmost city, more than 1400 miles from Toronto where polar bears and narwhals roam - there’s a bar called The Storehouse. It’s filled every night with diehard Blue Jays fans. A very fun one to write.
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In Canada’s northernmost city, more than 1400 miles from Toronto where polar bears and narwhals roam - there’s a bar called The Storehouse. It’s filled every night with diehard Blue Jays fans. A very fun one to write.
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The Blue Jays bar at the end of the world
There are no roads in and out.
Only planes can get you there, and of course, boats. But that's only if Frobisher Bay isn’t frozen over (which it is for about nine months of the year).
Canada’s norther...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is fantastic.
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Sunday Notes: Rhett Lowder Likes Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Rocker Step blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...
Sunday Notes: Rhett Lowder Likes Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Rocker Step
Plus Payton Tolle’s worst gophers, Chris Gimenez on Yu Davis, Kevin McGonigle on advice from Alan Trammell, an obscure former Kansas City Royal, facts and stats galore, and more.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Sunday Notes: Rhett Lowder Likes Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Rocker Step blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes...
Made it through four innings last night (multiple reasons for this) and doubt I make it that far tonight. Not exactly ideal.
October 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Made it through four innings last night (multiple reasons for this) and doubt I make it that far tonight. Not exactly ideal.
Go Blue Jays.
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Go Blue Jays.
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Confirming a report from Sean McAdam, Jason Varitek will be back on the Red Sox coaching staff next year - his 30th season in the Red Sox org, and his 15th since the end of his playing career: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/s...
Jason Varitek will be back with the Red Sox next season - The Boston Globe
A major league source confirmed that Varitek — whose contract as the big league team’s game-planning and run prevention coach ran through the 2025 season — has agreed to return.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Confirming a report from Sean McAdam, Jason Varitek will be back on the Red Sox coaching staff next year - his 30th season in the Red Sox org, and his 15th since the end of his playing career: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/s...
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Kevin McGonigle talks hitting with FanGraphs' David Laurila
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Kevin McGonigle Talks Hitting
The Detroit Tigers prospect has a keep-it-simple approach and a high ceiling with the bat.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Kevin McGonigle talks hitting with FanGraphs' David Laurila
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