in the last 24 hours, google/youtube have started thinking i am in michigan, not sacramento, for some reason and i don’t know how some of you live with these election ads
alexandra whitley
@alexandraw.bsky.social
writing @baseballprospectus.com, thinking/writing about education
saw a terribly written headline yesterday (the coach was fired when cora was but cora was not hired as hitting coach)
you can’t expect fielders to know what to do about the ground. falling on the ground is just not an ordinary, foreseeable event
alexandra whitley@alexandraw.bsky.social · last wk.apparently so
the kings are still taking nowhere near enough 3's; pretty clear that it was a doug christie thing, not a derozan thing. and this roster should be set up to take a lot of 3's as their only real route to victory
i have had to see this ad at least three times since and would like to formally request that everyone be more normal about women’s bodies
alexandra whitley@alexandraw.bsky.social · 2w agoi swear i just saw an ad where a woman purporting to be a teacher says “i went from a size 10 to a size 2. now i’m the role model my students deserve” and then the ad just ends
okay i'm sorry for saying it was guardsball when caminero homered. this is actual guardsball
randy rodríguez update: velo started off low again but he ramped it up to 97-98 for his final three pitches. threw only one slider (-3 mph still) but three changeups
i swear i just saw an ad where a woman purporting to be a teacher says “i went from a size 10 to a size 2. now i’m the role model my students deserve” and then the ad just ends
guardians win: craig yoho, blake perkins, bo naylor guaranteed rings rays win: jake woodford guaranteed ring
de paula would've hit it at least 10 feet further imo
bad ohtani is just a distraction from even worse will smith. we want playoff feduccia
first at bat made me wonder, so: jackson chourio has swung at 55.1% of pitches in the postseason, second-highest among players not yet eliminated (angel martínez, who is 0-15; min. 50 pitches)
andrew benintendi struck out in every plate appearance he he had in this series. all seven!!
bringing in a guy with a career 15% walk rate to face a very patient hitter with the bases loaded is very brave managing. of course, sabrowski is also one of the few pitchers with an even higher career strikeout rate than murakami (37% to 35%)
what could possibly make you use cade smith here? you just saw how tired this type of usage made grant taylor
anthony kay has now hit 27 batters this year. none of them are ever injured enough to leave the game, and that's as much pain as i've ever seen them show
alexandra whitley@alexandraw.bsky.social · 4mo agowrote for @baseballprospectus.com about how anthony kay is hitting batters more than anyone since austin adams, and how none of them seem to mind really www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
the blake snell virus is infecting left-handed playoff starting pitchers
hagen smith zone rate by game this series game 1: 51 pitches, 29% in-zone game 3: 21 pitches, 29% in-zone game 4: 27 pitches, 26% in-zone somehow only one run allowed if fedde gets out of this
imo they should go up to 190 games and cut the postseason entirely
teams should be limited to no more than two mid-inning pitching changes in a game. we're already at 3 runs per game in the playoffs; i can't take any more commercials
i can't think of any justification for roki sasaki to throw 0 splitters in his first 12 pitches under any circumstances
Ban all baseball roofs. Outdoor sport
Matt Trueblood@matrueblood.bsky.social · last mo.No! Ban all baseball roofs!
tarik skubal has two outs in the 5th inning on under 60 pitches and even john smoltz couldn't dream further than saying he could go seven innings
i feel like commercial breaks used to have different ads. now i’m just subjected to the same sydney sweeney gambling ad over and over again