Brian Mills
@bmmillsy.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin https://sites.google.com/utexas.edu/bmmillsphd
Dodgers traded Zyhir Hope and his 291/368/525 line. In the upper minors they still have: Tibbs 294/416/543 Ehrhard 293/405/478 (37 SB last year) Sirota 320/471/560 De Paula 317/417/562 George 329/419/396 (36 SB this year) And low minors: Shelton 303/403/657 Morales 292/377/537 Davalan 292/410/525
Now they were done with all that I would like to note that I don’t think any league should allow mid season trades.
Base Topps Chrome RCs, ungraded, of Shohei Ohtani are now pushing $1,000. I sold mine for $30 about 5 years ago. Oopsies.
Dodgers have a treasure trove of prospects thanks to their development, supposedly what the efficient small market teams are good at. [Dodgers trade for top pitcher with prospects, will have to pay him the salary ~mediocre reliever Jose Leclerc] Every Idiot: SEE THIS IS WHY WE NEED A CAP!
$200,000 Spent On Travel Ball Finally Pays Off With Son’s $500 College Scholarship https://babylonbee.com/news/200000-spent-on-travel-ball-finally-pays-off-with-sons-500-college-scholarship/?utm_source=fediverse
$200,000 Spent On Travel Ball Finally Pays Off With Son’s $500 College Scholarship
FLORENCE, SC — The $200,000 invested by the Benson family on their son Brayden's travel baseball team finally paid off, as he earned a $500 scholarship to Florence-Darlington Technical College.
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Can't imagine a worse use of time than requiring me to track down the month of all 130 or so presentations I've given in my career to put on a CV for T&P. Who are the people parsing what month these things happened in? Who hurt them? Do they need their mommy?
Previously, my highest yearly review requests was 39 (1st Round + Revision). On pace for 51 this year. That's 1 per week. If I decline your invitation please don't be offended. There are like 5 journals I will not likely ever decline - you know who you are. Stop writing so many papers, people.
Incredibly, this is *not* the first time Bader has been in the news for running a scooter into a parked truck. www.gainesville.com/story/sports...
UF baseball suspends outfielder Bader
Outfielder Harrison Bader has been suspended from the Florida baseball team indefinitely after he was involved in a scooter accident early Sunday morning in which alcohol may have been involved.
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Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 6d agoSo, Harrison Bader having a “scooter accident” with an already injured foot easily met the clown threshold, the details make it a five ring circus.
InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Los Angeles Dodgers – Multiple Openings blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...
Job Posting: Los Angeles Dodgers - Multiple Openings
The Los Angeles Dodgers are hiring.
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InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Miami Marlins – Director of Baseball Applications blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...
Job Posting: Miami Marlins - Director of Baseball Applications
The Miami Marlins are hiring.
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In the 21st Century, World Series records by state: Missouri: 3-3 New York: 2-5
It’s almost like refusing to recognize everyone’s actual favorite players from this 20 year period because “Steroids Bad” means nobody will care about what you’re up to.
FanGraphs Baseball@fangraphs.com · last wk.Polarizing Honorees Brought Sparse Crowds for Hall of Fame Induction Weekend blogs.fangraphs.com/polarizing-h...
Rafael Devers is in decline, sure. But since the start of May he's slugged .564 with an ISO north of .300 despite playing home games in San Francisco as a LHB. Seems to still have some juice left to me.
Hard to know what this means for peak. But top guys currently pitching into their 40s (Scherzer, Verlander) have lost only 1 or 2 ticks from their peak. Kershaw down more than 5 ticks by 37. So let's say Randy lost 5 full mph by 2008. Then his peak was still ~4 mph slower than 2026 Misiorowski.
Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · last wk.One of the fun things about a handful of 80s/90s star pitchers throwing so long is that we do actually have data from start of pitch tracking era in 2008, so on the same scale as Statcast. 2008 fastball velo. Obv they were in their 40s here, so not at peak. baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_sea...
InstaGraphs: Saberseminar 2026 Is August 29-30 in Chicago! blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...
Saberseminar 2026 Is August 29-30 in Chicago!
Tickets are now available for the conference.
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More on the Trump / Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" report, from @theverge.com
The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ of American science starts with dismantling it, while funneling billions into AI.
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Trying to find an issue with a very complex merge from a couple years ago - that I thought went fine - related to name merging. First comment in the (very large) R file is: ###need to add names from other file but fcks up the merge - FIGURE IT OUT FRIDAY So, I must have forgotten that Friday...
Proud of today’s huge addition to SABR’s comprehensive team employee database: *college* baseball coaches and staffs dating back to the late 19th century. Need to know the entire personnel history of the Western Michigan Broncos? We got you! sabr.org/latest/2026-...
2026 executives, college baseball staffs added to SABR MLB Team Employee Database – Society for American Baseball Research
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Filename naming convention for tenure & promotion at Texas is that they are not allowed to include candidate names in the filename. All candidates across the university have to submit the same (~40) files and filenames (not including copies of every paper). I'm sure this plan is totally foolproof.
And here’s the online version for anyone interested in reading your fascinating article: sabr.org/journal/arti...
Umpire Analytics – Society for American Baseball Research
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Anyone have access to this book real quick? I have a chapter in it and need the page numbers specific to my chapter for a promotion document, but our building is closed and I do not have access to my bookshelf. @sabrbbcards.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social www.amazon.com/SABR-Umpires...
The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring (Baseball Lives)
Buy The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring (Baseball Lives): Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com
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Look, anybody can run for less than 4 minutes. When I run a mile I spend 8 or 9 or even 10 minutes getting that workout in. Guy is just cheating himself quitting this early.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoFrom @theathletic.com: The Olympian Josh Kerr broke the world record for fastest mile at the London Diamond League on Saturday with a time of 3 minutes 42.66 seconds. trib.al/ZhfaZIl
So universities are now asking each co-author to provide letters stating contributions of each person to projects for promotion? Thousands upon thousands of unnecessary hours you’re throwing onto people? Is this an outgrowth of all the gift authorship bullshit I’ve watched grow the last 15 years?
Good news for sports econ people looking for travel funds. NAASE is now offering travel grants for first time presenters at NAASE-organized sessions at the Southerns, Easterns, and Westerns.
Back in my day we had entire shows that revolved around pushing your friend in a grocery cart as fast as possible and letting it go in an abandoned parking lot late at night just to see what would happen (and hope there wasn’t a subsequent hospital trip)
404 Gender Not Found@dropthepackets.net · 3w agoStop trying to make the phrase “teen takeovers” happen
Every single T&P document is basically some variant of "please explain - in excruciating detail using 4 pages of text - the obvious reason for that weird blip easily seen in this chart."
