"I plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits and facial tics" @NatPress fellow 2024 | NABJ | IRE | holler@bwd.nyc
May 30, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Shakeia's tweets on MLB "integrating" negro leagues stats are spot on. Something I've tossed around for a while-- largely helped by her and my guy @coryfrontin's immediate concerns -- is that rightful recognition of Black greatness does not require the assimilation happening now
this @SABR chart tracked the proportion of positive statistical production produced by Black American MLB players relative to their proportion in a (mostly white) league. this graph shows that in literally every single year, Black players outperformed their peers.
Every year.
Dec 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In conjunction with Dr. Meredith Wills, Insider found evidence MLB used three distinct baseballs in 2022.
The balls show up in distinct places in our sample.
Oh! A player got a stern warning from the league for trying to help.
Balls don't lie, Part 2: insider.com/mlb-used-two-b…
Dr. Meredith Wills (@Bbl_Astrophyscs ) obtained over 200 baseballs across the 2022 season and playoffs. Her largest sample ever. Some were old-school heavy "juiced".
Way more were "dead."
But we found 36 balls that, based on their construct, are likely bouncier than the deads.
Jul 19, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I just had a very illuminating and fun (for me) back and forth with Rob Manfred about MLB's use of multiple baseballs in 2021.
lil' thread incoming.
first, Manfred repeated what a spokesperson told me for @thisisinsider: Yes, the league used two balls, one (for brevity's sake) "dead" ball and another "juiced." But, Manfred claimed it was only because COVID supply chain issues forced MLB to reach into older, juiced inventory.
Jul 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
in a press conference with MLBPA boss Tony Clark.
One writer asked: “when can we stop wearing masks [inside the clubhouse]?”
biting my tongue until it bleeds of course but his reasoning is the inconsistency. Players and team officials don’t have to wear them, nor does anyplace else in the country.
Jun 6, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
[trigger warning: baseball]
going somewhere so stay w/ me.
if everyone genuinely stops pitching with aggressive amounts of sticky stuff, my hunch is the adjusted stats that factor in how good you are relative to other pitchers (like ERA-) won't change dramatically for most.
I'm interested to see which pitchers have the biggest changes in their total strikeouts or runs or fill-in-the-blank, but in total effectiveness when compared to the average. what players benefitted the most. who are the outliers
