Michael Baumann
@baumann.bsky.social
FanGraphs Writer, Piney, Gamecock, Condiment Enthusiast, Connoisseur of Vehicles Subscribe to Wheelysports.kit.com (or medium.com/@wheelysports) @michaelbaumann on Twitter baumannwrites at gmail dot com
We're kicking off the first week of the offseason with our annual Top 50 Free Agents list! @benclemens.bsky.social provided contract estimates and these rankings, along with market-focused commentary on the Top 25, and a collection of our writers supplied player-focused breakdowns for the top 50:
2027 Top 50 Free Agents
The most significant players to hit the open market this offseason, as compiled by Ben Clemens and the FanGraphs staff.
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Songs named after Amtrak passenger trains out of Chicago, ranked: 1) "City of New Orleans" by Steve Goodman 2) "Empire Builder" by Typhoon
People are working out feelings about Haley Stevens today, whether you should feel sympathy for someone who's clearly going through a breakdown of some kind but in the process fucked it big time. All the therapy sessions I spent talking about Ben Simmons have never looked like a better investment.
I'm only like 40 percent joking here: Jalen Hurts goes Charlie Conway Mode
Ben Natan@thebennatan.bsky.social · 15h agoI guess the problem with firing Nick is like… who is your interim coach? Fangio seems like he’s out to lunch.
Hey, Nick's idiotic try-to-draw-an-offside-when-you-should-just-go-for-it gambit finally resulted in a penalty!
Beer vendor: I hope we get a good game Me: I assure you we won't!
"Ok kids so this is from a movie about what happens when Mom tells you to wash your hands and leave your dirty shoes in the garage and you don't listen"
That is running the 40 in Hell Yeah Brother
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 2d agoRidiculous in all the best ways from the hurdle to the bullying
I wasn't especially worried about this game because Brent Venables would forget where to feed himself if he didn't open his mouth so much to yell but yeah
Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com · 2d agoThe South Carolina vibe shift the past three weeks is a wild story. This is now a pretty interesting team! Nyck Harbor is running good routes that aren't go routes and catching touchdowns!
Kate: I like this jacket, I look like the guy from the movie you like Me: ... Kate: Where the fighter pilot goes to space Me: ... Kate: Starfighter...? Me: First of all in The Last Starfighter Alex isn't a fighter pilot. Even after Centauri recruits him Alex is just the gunner. Grig flies the ship.
I hate baseball Halloween, what do you mean you’re Sandy Koufox?
Sadly it's impossible to negotiate with a country ruled by a group of secretive religious fundamentalists that arbitrarily override democratically elected officials. Which is why Iran won't be able to cut a deal with us until we have court reform.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d agovery revealing look at the DC Blob mindset right now. they simply cannot imagine a world in which Iran is not dominated by American military force www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Not to spoil a freelance article that's coming out at some point in the future, but VJ Edgecombe's career eFG% is 20 points higher in the last five minutes of close games than it is overall
This season, on Love Is Blind, "the experiment" is not "can you fall in love sight unseen?" it's "What happens when the world's most passive-aggressive woman tries to get the world's most laid-back man to dump her?"
This is still the all-time World Series parade moment for me. The 2017 Series had two of the craziest baseball games I've ever been to and this was as dramatic as either of them
From the BeAmazed community on Reddit: Amazing moment at the Houston Astros parade in 2017, when a woman dropped her hat and it was returned to her in spectacular fashion
Explore this post and more from the BeAmazed community
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this is a far, far bigger scandal than anything Peltola did, and the fact that the media refuses to treat it as such is embarrassing but not surprising
VoteHub@votehub.com · 4d agoNEW — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) declined to commit to certifying the U.S. Senate election if Democrat Mary Peltola wins while an investigation into a second Dan Sullivan candidate continues, per Axios.
In things I wish I'd remembered last week: I had the Brewers' BP Annual essay the year Stearns left for New York. I used it as a vehicle to rail against the Great Man theory of history because structures matter more than individuals, which meant the Brewers would be fine in the long term
Wedding receptions in Queens are gonna go crazy to this
Daddy Yankee and Diljit Dosanjh - POKITO (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Daddy Yankee
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another incredible patrick stewart story, from his memoir: him eating an american hamburger. RIP to a legend.
The Rolling Stone list is fine, but "Eatin' Big Time" being on it made me think of a much more interesting ranking: The 200 coolest cars from 21st Century music videos. That way I can get mad if Murdoc's dune buggy from "19-2000" isn't no. 1
Late on this, but the best rock song of the 21st century is "Wolf Like Me," if only because I just heard someone drive by my street absolutely BLASTING it before 11 am.
Michael Mann walked in on me doing this in the middle of a screening of The Insider, looked me right in the eyes, and shook his head in disapproval. One of the funniest moments of my life
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 4d agohow it feels to hit my pen in the bathroom at the movie theater
