Dave Haller

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

Inside a managing master class: Dave Roberts breaks down a Game 7 for the ages nytimes.com/athletic/70837…

🔥Wow -> The ⁦@nytimes⁩ just walked into the ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ backyard, took the sports franchise the Post built and should have fortified, and made it its own. ⁦So now the Times will own DC sports…we are in The Simulation.. nytco.com/press/the-athl…

@SamBlum3 @TheAthletic Congrats, Sam!

An update: My time as an Angels beat reporter is ending. I'm moving into a national baseball writer role at @TheAthletic. This team may have stunk. But covering them, for this audience, sure didn't. I wrote about the change, and why I'm not going far: nytimes.com/athletic/70714…

The Athletic is hiring Barry Svrluga, Adam Kilgore, Candace Buckner, Ava Wallace, Spencer Nusbaum and Jason Murray nytco.com/press/the-athl…

#Orioles manager Craig Albernaz, #Nationals skipper Blake Butera/GM Anirudh Kilambi among latest former #Rays to get hired in top-level positions with other teams. Why are ex-Rays getting so many of these jobs? tampabay.com/sports/rays/20…

Many Olympic champions report the same experience: A gold medal doesn't feel as good as they think it will. I wrote about decades of social psychology research, the "arrival fallacy," and why we’re all so bad about predicting what will make us happy: nytimes.com/athletic/70657…

Paul Skenes, 100mph Fastball, 95mph Splinker, 85mph Sweeper & 88mph Changeup, 4 Pitch Overlay 😳

One of the coolest visualizations I've ever seen-- the evolution of the MLB strike zone from 2007 to 2025. The zone has changed dramatically-- going from vibes to nearly matching the rulebook definition perfectly. They're remarkably good. reddit.com/r/baseball/com…

PITCH FOR THE FUTURE: Unveiled today the renderings of our new NLBM Campus which includes: the Buck O’Neil Center (at the Paseo YMCA), a nearly 40,000 sq-ft @NLBMuseumKC, a @Marriott Tribute Hotel and an almost 500 stall parking garage! @MLBNetworkRadio @Royals @sn_mlb @MLBPA

"I have done some deer hunting up there, but wouldn't think that would make me the most-searched old, washed-up baseball player in 2025." The full, ridiculous tale of how one man made Kyle Farnsworth @baseball_ref's most searched pitcher in Iowa for 2025: mlb.com/news/kyle-farn…

@SNYtv @chelsea_janes Awesome! Congrats, Chelsea.

SNY is thrilled to announce Chelsea Janes as our new MLB Insider. She was previously with The Washington Post as a national baseball writer. Welcome to SNY, @chelsea_janes!

@nlbmprez @NLBMuseumKC @fox4kc This is huge! So excited to see the renderings tomorrow.

With history currently bursting at the seams, it’s time for a new home for the @NLBMuseumKC! @fox4kc stopped by last week for this story about our plans to build a new NLBM as part of the nation’s first Negro Leagues campus! fox4kc.com/hidden-history…

Blockbuster Weekend 🍿

The greatest trick that @washingtonpost ever pulled was convincing employees if they gave everything they could to make the place great, that the institution would love them back. They treated it like a calling and then got treated like a line in a balance sheet. A damn shame.

The Washington Post has been the best newspaper sports section for a long time now. Best staff. Best work. Business wise, I don't understand why a media outlet - especially one that is understandably focused on politics - would give up on sports, which serves as a unifier and one of the rare spots of common interest among Americans.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Today is National Hat Day! Six years ago, fans put their RALLY CAPS on to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Negro Leagues. Thanks to my brother, @JPosnanski, Dan McGinn, and many of you, our “Tip Your Cap” to the Negro Leagues campaign went viral! Honor and Respect! @sn_mlb

The logo and branding are inspired by Ted Williams' "The Science of Hitting" and its iconic strike-zone diagram. Huge credit to my better half, Chelsea, who brought this vision to life with a cohesive logo and visual identity. More to come this week!

Great hitters prepare, train hard, and study tendencies to create an advantage. And the same is true off the field. At Middle Third, I directly support teams, leagues, brands, and other baseball-adjacent organizations with senior-level communications and brand strategy.

Today I'm excited to officially introduce Middle Third Communications -- a baseball-focused advisory I’ve been building over the past couple months. The name comes from the simple idea that the best opportunities lie in the middle third of the strike zone.