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I write about baseball — mostly the Colorado Rockies. (Fandom is weird.) Find my work at Purple Row, SB Nation, & Rockies Pitch. SABR member. she/her/hers RockiesPitch.com https://muckrack.com/renee-dechert Mastodon: @[email protected]

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · Mar 29

Welcome baseball fans!

Here are three starter packs to help you get started.

BaseballSky I:

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BaseballSky II:

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BaseballSky III:

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Patrick Callahan, smashing pumpkins. @iampatrickc.bsky.social · 47m

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 12h

Itsn’t it awful?

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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 12h

We're 9 outs away from not having a single day off

Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 1d

depending on the results today we could be without major league baseball until Sunday when the ALCS starts

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 13h

Okay, I laughed!

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 13h

Although it does remind me of this classic:

Jon Gray prepares to pitch — he’s wearing a Rockies cap, but his torso is gray fur (since the Rockies referred to him as “The Gray Wolf.”

Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 13h

Uh . . . .

An Instagram post from the Tigers’ social media team that features Tarik Skubal morphing into a tiger.

It has lots of orange and is just generally disconcerting.

The captions read “Game 6 Starter. Hear him roar.”

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 14h

NOOOOOOO!!!!!

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 14h

I would be very here for a Pat Murphy TED Talk on Shakespeare’s tragedies (or comedies if that’s more his thing).

Alex Stumpf @alexjstumpf.bsky.social · 16h

Pat Murphy pressers hit different

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Matt Winkelman @mattwinkelman.bsky.social · 15h

If you are going to die, die with your best players.

Matt Gelb @mattgelb.bsky.social · 15h

Jesús Luzardo is warming up. He's probably pitching the 10th.

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 15h

Here are your ALCS and NLCS start times for Games 1 and 2 beginning Sunday.

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 22h

I guessed this one before evening clicking on the link.

(Did not expect to see RyMac included, tho.)

Each MLB Team's Nightmare Contract By 2027

With most Major League Baseball teams already in offseason mode and the free-agency signing window opening in less than a month, it's a good time for a reminder that long-term contracts are like a box...

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 22h

@velodus.bsky.social — Here you go!

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Jason Collette @jasoncollette.bsky.social · 23h

The food is good, but not sure it’s worth this long of a wait

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 1d

FYI:

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Tigers are exactly where they were a year ago, a Tarik Skubal start in a winner-advances game away from their first ALCS berth since 2013. How they got here has been fascinating, from 8 straight home losses to their highest-scoring postseason game since G6 of 1968 World Series.

Fueled by grit and belief, Tigers knot ALDS to force decisive Game 5

DETROIT -- For the second consecutive year, the Tigers will hand the ball to Tarik Skubal in a winner-take-all Game 5 of an American League Division Series. The path to get him there was unlike any th...

www.mlb.com

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 1d

Phillies, the HVAC person is here at 8:00 tomorrow morning.

Please, can you just very efficiently finish this game?

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Anthony Masterson @mastertones.bsky.social · 1d

Last 2 playoff games for Kershaw: 2.0 IP, 12 hits, 11 runs, 4 BB, 0 K

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Listen, this is just how Kershaw celebrates the arrival of autumn. It’s unorthodox, but it’s his tradition.

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 1d

Kyle Schwarber.

Mercy.

a man with a beard wearing a red hat

Alt: a man with a beard wearing a red hat Schwarber — flexes and celebrates.

media.tenor.com

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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 1d

Wait.

Costco now has a caramel brownie sundae?

This is both awesome and terrible.

Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 1d

🤣

Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 1d

Yeah, that’s not happening.

Colorado Rockies Will Hire Joe Maddon As Next Manager

As the MLB Postseason rolls on, the Colorado Rockies are trying to sort out how they'll recover from their disastrous 2025 campaign.

twsn.net

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CB⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 1d

Start spreading the news bitches

#BlueJays

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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 1d

The AL's representative in the World Series will either be the Tigers (haven't been since 2012), Blue Jays (haven't been since 1993), or the Mariners (have never played in a World Series).

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Mario Delgado Genzor @mariodelgadogenzor.bsky.social · 1d

This is an Ubaldo Jiménez post. What an arm that guy had

JJ Cooper @jjcoop36.bsky.social · 1d

From 2008-2012, in 5 of 337 playoff games an SP averaged 96.4 mph+ with their fastballs.

Ubaldo Jimenez 2009 (98.4)
Justin Verlander 2011 (97.1)
Matt Garza 2008 (96.9)
David Price 2010 (96.7)
Justin Verlander 2012 (96.4)

Cam Schlittler averaged 96.4 mph for every pitch of his first playoff start.

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