Jordan in Finland (Fantasy Baseball Oligarch)
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Income inequality drivers @aboakademi. ⚾✍️@fangraphs.⚾ #s OOPSY & @statlinescout & @prospectslive. OnWork workforce strategist. pet rat owner 🐀🐀
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yippee, our article on power & inequality is now up at SER. We introduce a measure of global ideology (fig 1), finding a large rightward shift since 1980. We link rightward shifts in national (fig 2) & global ideology to increased income inequality within countries.
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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Left: OOPSY's biggest misses relative to the other systems. Right: OOPSY's biggest hits relative to other systems (sorted by magnitude of error relative to other systems)
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
OOPSY also did well overall. The article didn't review specific component projections, but OOPSY's RBI projections weren't good. need to spend more time on those. BB, K, HR, SB were all good, comparable to THE BAT X and Steamer. ZiPS hosed us in those too.
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The reviews are in: critics are hailing OOPSY as Paul Thomas Anderson's most entertaining film yet. No, wait, that is "One Battle After Another." Good work, @dszymborski.fangraphs.com
(2025's best hitting projections on FanGraphs) and
Steamer gang (2025's best pitching projections on FG)
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i know the 2025 projections are often too bullish on teens crushing the lower minors. I'd just stick with the peak proj for those guys as almost nobody actually jumps from A to MLB in the same year. there'd likely be a bigger hit to performance than typical translations indicate if they did
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OOPSY's top projected offenses the rest of the way (team wRC+ weighted by DC PA)
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
Now that David Robertson has signed, for the first time, major league baseball has achieved a perfectly efficient allocation of talent... for better or worse, there's no need for any additional moves this trade deadline
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benclemens.bsky.social
I love seeing @fangraphs.com trade value Top 10 screenshots. I want more. So let's do a contest. Reply to this post with your top 10 by end of day tomorrow. I'll pick my favorite and give out a one-year membership to the site. Happy clicking!
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
Basallo had (very good) spring bat speed data that's already in there yeah...peak projections are at scout the statline
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
EV90 is in OOPSY now. for now as a proxy for bat speed for minor leaguers. Noteworthy gainers (new peak wRC+): Konnor Griffin (120), Owen Caissie (126), Bryce Eldridge (124). Noteworthy fallers: Payton Eeles (93) and Dameury Pena (96)
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
Working on adding EV90 into OOPSY as a proxy for bat speed for minor leaguers...btw, when did @fangraphs.com add EV90 for MLBers, a nice surprise! for prospects, I've been pulling EV90 from the indispensable @oriolebird.bsky.social's Prospect Savant‬ leaderboards, I command you to follow him now!
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
Working on adding EV90 into OOPSY as a proxy for bat speed for minor leaguers...btw, when did @fangraphs.com add EV90 for MLBers, a nice surprise! for prospects, I've been pulling EV90 from the indispensable @oriolebird.bsky.social's Prospect Savant‬ leaderboards, I command you to follow him now!
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
Yes fortunately...but only with major revisions of course!
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
Academia has prepared me well for receiving criticism when taking my bicycle in for maintenance
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.

His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.

That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this Mayor’s time in City Hall. At the very moment when MAGA Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off of healthcare and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this President’s division, distraction and hate. 

Voters will resoundingly reject it in November.
rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
RIP to the abundance agenda's "theory of power," 6-8-2025 to 7-1-2025. It was a good run
rbreich.bsky.social
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all. It comes at a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth.

This budget bill is a nightmare.
The Worst Bill in History
Trump’s giant budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering, shafting-the-poor-and-working-class, making-the-rich-even richer bill
robertreich.substack.com
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rosenjordanblum.bsky.social
The NYT Editorial Board should advise the Cubs to start anyone aside from Ben Brown
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i checked now...chandler jumps to 14th after aaa stuff is included. painter jumps to 6th
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no stuff+ in there for chandler yet as I only included it for mlb guys. would probs give him a good bump!
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