An interesting one from Ron Blum: This year, MLB teams can use high-tech pitching machines that recreate pitchers' repertoires in-game for the first time. apnews.com/article/trajek…

Some person news: New person coming early July, 2024. Jake Seiner and I can’t wait to meet our All Star.

“Is there a specific skill to DHing versus just hitting? I would defer to the people that have done it.” For The Ringer, the universal DH has sorta been an offensive flop (DHs are in their flop era?) and what good DHs know that teams don’t seem to apply. theringer.com/mlb/2024/3/29/…

Two years into the universal DH era, and more than 50 years after the role was first introduced, DH production has dried up. Why is designated hitting so hard? @hannahrkeyser: theringer.com/mlb/2024/3/29/…

Sometimes celebrations of women in sports can make it seem like our value is tied to scarcity but actually it’s so much better to have other people who make you comfortable in the space.

50 years later, a Braves fan shares long-private video of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run apnews.com/article/aaron-…

Yankees manager Aaron Boone has a rule for new outfielder Alex Verdugo: One chain per game apnews.com/article/yankee…

BREAKING: Iowa star Caitlin Clark is the AP Player of the Year!

So special to catch up with proud dad Robert A. Nakken and 11-wk-old daughter Austyn just as Giants coach Alyssa Nakken popped into the family room to check on them pregame. In her own pint-sized jersey, Austyn wowed me with some adorable toothless smiles. apnews.com/article/alyssa…

So, it appears I won the APSE explanatory contest. Really, really gratifying to see the work recognized. apsportseditors.com/zach-crizer-of…

Who's really left-handed? In baseball, it can be hard to tell apnews.com/article/mlb-le…

Jake Seiner Eight years of marriage, 10 years of living together, 11th annual stoop photo with Jake Seiner! New decade, new backdrop. Endless scaffolding forced a pivot to the patio, which means it’s the first full family portrait. Fitting, since it will never be just the two of us again.

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BREAKING: Padres' Tucupita Marcano under investigation by MLB for gambling on baseball, AP source says apnews.com/article/tucupi…

In Britain's top baseball league, crowds are small, babysitters are key and the Mets are a dynasty. apne.ws/dndFP1K

‘The Way of Zen’ and ‘The Art of War’: on the personality paradox of Tyler Glasnow, baseball’s premier strikeout artist and a key part of the Dodgers’ billion dollar offseason, for GQ Magazine gq.com/story/tyler-gl…

For Front Office Sports I wrote about the rise of flashy accessories in baseball, how hands became the new feet when it comes to customization, and how so-called oven mitts became the It item in baseball — both for big and little leaguers. frontofficesports.com/mlb-players-ar…

If there’s a moral to the Dodgers’ 2024 title it’s to never be complacent. Or maybe it’s to win the obvious ways, acquiring undeniable talent at any price. Wrote about the World Series winners theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct…

Women's baseball players could soon have a league of their own again apnews.com/article/e572ee…

Here is a video to tell you that starting Monday you can get written content (for now! video to come? maybe!) from me and Zach Crizer at bandwagon.substack.com We'd love to have you aboard.