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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today!

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Seize the means of run production. BREAKOUT YEAR (2025): I write books about ballplayers kissing. Repped by @DeidreKnight .

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 26d

"But as in any KD Casey book, the third party in the relationship is ‘baseball’, which here acts as a hard to please lover."

I was trying to think of a good summary of this book, but a pal did it for me. Breakout Year, an mm sports romance, is out in the world!
www.kdcaseywrites.com/breakout-year

The cover of Breakout Year by KD Casey. The book is green. Objects important to the characters (baseball equipment, tea, plants, etc.) are present.

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 22m

please don't be my close cousin: inter-generational edition

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 23m

me: why do I like watching lefty jewish pitchers with good curveballs so much?
also me, seeing sandy koufax on tv: right!

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 44m

they need to stop even thinking the word "elbow" in front of a pitcher

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 51m

on march 29 I texted a friend "the lord (the yankees infield defense) is testing me" and well...

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 52m

oh and under no circumstances do you let ben rice fix his teeth the way judge did. that probably is less important, but we ca't be sure.

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 53m

imagine investing 218 million dollars in a lefty groundball pitcher and not having a third baseman for much of the season. couldn't be me.

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 54m

if the new york yankees want to pay me a very reasonable 10 million dollars, I will tell them how to fix their shit

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1h

I do enjoy writing baseball books in which I've written characters ranging from like 5'8" ish to 6'6"+ with a bunch of different body types. I do find it funny in books when they're like, "he was impossibly tall (6'3")" and I'm like ... impossibly tall for an old-school shortstop or... ???

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1h

The Prospects (KT Hoffman)

Gene Ionescu has always loved every detail of baseball, but non quite so much as its near-complete indifference to the body. In few other sports can a five-foot two-inch sprinter appear on the same roster as a six-foot five-inch pitcher. Size—muscle, height, maybe a few inches of reach or long running legs—helps. But baseball also rewards the patient, the crafty, and perhaps most of all, the optimistic.

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 2h

he is extremely underrated as a bad ball hitter/pest www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

The Garbage Will Do! | Baseball Prospectus

Anthony Santander's plate discipline isn't a bug, it's a feature.

www.baseballprospectus.com

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 3h

also not to get into publishing on main, but I had someone reach out (unprompted, uncompensated) and tell me I had a very consistent grammatical mistake in my ARCs of Breakout Year (since fixed) and it was absolutely nicer than just letting me go on like that

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 3h

why did this remind me of the article I read yesterday about logan gilbert telling cal raleigh to be, well, more unvarnishedly honest (mean) about pitch calling

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 3h

the kindest thing an editor can be is (gently, caringly) mean

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 5h

every team needs a token ally for the playoffs and without him, the phillies are all raw milk opinions

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 5h

words I have uttered today: "no, that's a load-bearing harrison bader"

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 5h

why are you booing I am right

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 5h

can the tigers-mariners series actually be extended to seven games for me, emotionally

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 6h

you can leave the nationals, but can they ever really leave you

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 23h

aw, yay, glad you enjoyed!

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

honestly, possibly

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

the war of 1812 and also tonight: rumors of the yankees demise grossly exaggerated

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

how many shirts do you think he was wearing? like a Bartholomew Cubbins situation?

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

communication is the most important part of an (outfield) relationship

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

if you've had to hear aj prinzinski pronounce "eugenio" you may be entitled to financial compensation

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

apparently I also write 🏳️‍🌈 romance books: if you're team has been eliminated or your team is about to be eliminated or you just want something for the off-season that involves baseball (complimentary) and Baseball (derogatory), but also there is kissing, check it out

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 26d

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