Carson Picard

My longest (and favorite) article yet is now live!

@erikhin @meusejw @PitcherList Erik’s fault

@meusejw @CarsonPicardPL @PitcherList Thanks for listening and glad you’re enjoying the show! Yes, there was a glitch in the Matrix and it didn’t publish when it was supposed to. I still standby not believing in Murakami long term though!

Our 10th episode! And an instant favorite of @CarsonPicardPL and I, so check out the episode now on @PitcherList !!!

@https_tosto Ok I forgot to respond to this bc I normally use bluesky but when I recorded the pod it was before the last muncy home run It was effectively a 3 way tie in my mind

@CarsonPicardPL james wood over pages and muncy as hitter of the day? Lmao

@ifthechufits Scott.

The best comp for Jordan Walker's stretch is Jared Kelenic back in June of 2024 - former top prospect who got a new lease on life and finally hitting. Kelenic stayed relevant for about another month and then fell off. Here's to hoping Walker keeps going. fangraphs.com/players/jarred…

In actually so excited

@pauliep72 @PitcherList @jakecrumpler I’ll do my best! It will inevitably be a bit different in presentation and pace but the core content and format will be very similar

@PitcherList @jakecrumpler @CarsonPicardPL @jakecrumpler is phenomenal at this. He gives such a great overview to prepare you for the day ahead and get you caught up. I hope the weekend has a similar blueprint. Great work!

The First Pitch Podcast is back for 2026! @jakecrumpler is on for another season during the week and @CarsonPicardPL will be taking over the weekends! Jake reviews last night's opener and gives a preview of Thursday's slate of games! youtu.be/M6Zq1qY_MOk

The Shallows Ep. 006 - Pitcher Previews w/ Kyle Bland pitcherlist.com/the-shallows-e…

@pitchprofiler Dude you can't be calling every pitcher with red on their card a demon

Oh my god Michael Wacha is a demon

All this pitch modeling drama to be wrong again about Zebby Matthews

@bell_trolls @PitcherList @PitcherListPLV open.spotify.com/track/33T6ABvd…

@PitcherList @PitcherListPLV Are they “fixed” now?

Hey y'all, I need to chat about our new @PitcherListPLV account. First of all, we have no idea how this happened. We expected to do a small launch and ramp it up throughout the spring as we ensured everything was working correctly, and in no world did we anticipate climbing from 800 followers to 100k+ in 24 hours. We've reached out to colleagues trying to grasp it, and I don't think anyone in their right mind actually believes I'd purchase bots to pump the numbers (if I actually wanted to, we'd do it for our YouTube channel!). While inspecting some of the cards during the day, we saw many complaining about the model's grades, and we 100% agree. Something was wrong. How on Earth could Tolle have such a low stuff grade? Triple F for Bergert's outing?! Let me explain what happened and a little more about what Pitcher List Stats is and our PLV model. We began developing PLV (Pitch Level Value) in 2019, after four years of work, and launched it in 2023. I personally worked with some brilliant people to get it to the finish line, including Colin Charles, Jeffrey Nicholas, Zach Dobroff, Cameron Grove of Pitching Bot, and now the head of our analytics department Kyle Bland. You can read the award-winning article from 2023 here:  pitcherlist.com/what-is-plv-an… As outlined there, this model is not something whipped up by AI over the last month. It takes into account dozens of factors, from release height, arm angle, movement, velocity, spin rates, extension, and all the good stuff. We've made adjustments here and there over the years and will continue to improve it indefinitely. It's a foundational metric that allows us to assess player skills on a different level, including crafting our Process+ metric for hitters. "But then why was it so obviously wrong yesterday?" Well, that has to do with a few factors, and Kyle does a fantastic job outlining what went wrong in the tweet below. In short, some overfitting, some small sample problems, and some spring training being spring training. The next tweet you'll see from @PitcherlistPLV will showcase the fixed model vs. some of the cards you saw yesterday. We're also expediting an article on the Pitcher List site from Kyle outlining all the factors that go into determining the grades you see on these cards, making it the clear reference point for everyone to use these cards to the best of their ability. Remember, we didn't expect for this account to get so much attention so quickly! Once we have our article live on our website, we will add a link inside these cards so everyone can understand the massive undertaking of making them. We spent weeks iterating on this design and determining what should go where (no AI involved), and we're incredibly thankful to have so many provide feedback on what metrics they want to see, what needs more clarity, and special requests. Please continue to do so, respectfully, of course. We've already made some changes that you'll see later today, such as renaming "Start" and "Models" to "Results" and "Skills", as they better represent what those grades are for. We love the idea of a "Start" grade to quickly grasp if a pitcher was good or poor, but we didn't make clear this grade was our version of a Game Score, and not a grade of the pitcher's stuff or PLV. We still like the idea of an all-encompassing "Skills & Results" number (and one for a SP vs. RP) and we'll keep toying with the idea. And yes, those "Start/Results" grades are low because we intended these cards to be featured mainly during the regular season, when pitchers are properly stretched out and aren't leaving after a few frames. Another artifact of our unexpected attention during the start of spring training. Lastly, while these cards are currently only for pitchers, we've already begun the process of creating cards for hitters - it's a little trickier given the small sample of a single game. I hope this post has cleared the air. We're still blown away at the support for our new account and we're excited to share our love for the game with all of you. Aces gonna ace, -Nick

@blandalytics PLUS leaking

These cards have been a labor of love for the better part of the last year (see a mid-February draft). There have been numerous updates and changes to the original, primarily driven by internal discussions at Pitcher List. Dozens of iterations later, we're at the current version.

Hey everyone! Let's talk about our new pitcher cards at @PitcherListPLV. First and foremost, as the Pitcher List Director of Analytics, I want to apologize. The Stuff model isn't accurate to what we want it to be, nor to what our intuition is.

I don’t even use this app anymore, but I’m gonna defend my friend’s dope work here lol

@azuremurkrow @PitcherListPLV No Not even remotely

@CarsonPicardPL @PitcherListPLV are they AI generated

So i've had the chance to talk behind the scenes about the @PitcherListPLV cards. For one, they are completely original. Here's what they used to look like in early versions

@PitcherListPLV As for buying followers accusations brother idk what to tell you we are a fantasy baseball website we do not have the money to do that

@PitcherListPLV The stuff modeling, by the way, is still in early stages and is prone to kinks and weirdness. Take it with a grain of salt

the trick is bat speedmaxxing without getting whiffmogged

@PippenCat Brokest activities I’ve ever seen

@grok @PitcherList please try harder to list them

My Top 400 SP Rankings are DONE! The massive behemoth of an article will be live Monday morning at Pitcher List. I just shared with PL Pro Members the Google Sheet of my SP rankings a few days early as a thank you for their support. Excited for everyone to read them Monday!

@cuppajoe1984 @PitcherList @erikhin Also Sandy won a unanimous Cy young two years ago so like

@cuppajoe1984 @PitcherList @erikhin Stuff+ does not have a perfect correlation with performance, but it’s a pretty strong one. On its own, it’s a decent indicator, but when paired with other stats it really helps to establish who has elite talent

With so much emphasis on deeper leagues in the fantasy space, we wanted to create a podcast that looks at shallower leagues and how to gain an edge when every team is stacked. Introducing The Shallows with @erikhin and @PLCars0n! youtu.be/hLV1nWVJpgM