Bradley Libros

@RunDMcD Fortunately Liberatore is so bad nobody would be tempted to use him even against PIT in favorable weather conditions. But the main point is good - never use the NFBC site for schedule info - last place u should look.

I saw on the NFBC site that it had Liberatore facing Pittsburgh. He's not. He's facing LAD. Hopefully people know not to trust their pitching projections

So Red Sox suck all season, then finally break thru for 17 runs Sat aft - so the team embraces the breakthru by firing the mgr and all the hitting coaches Sat nite.

@mike_petriello Not only did pitchers bat, but due to the huge number of BIP defense was emphasized, so C/SS/CF were often horrible hitters, and the SP could coast thru the back half of the lineup

Sometimes I just gawk at old baseball stats and marvel that people think the game has never changed. I'm sure there's a billion examples you could come up with, but right now I'm at "In 1913, Walter Johnson had a 1.14 ERA in 346 IP .. and also a 6.3 K/9."

Couple interesting streaming SP 4 deep leagues to take adv of the early week weather - Paddack vs STL on Tue, he's a decent K guy who is HR prone, and it will be a tough HR envir. J. Irvin has 2 step, Mon vs ATL w brutal conditions 4 offense, and 2nd start at CWS.

@RosenJordanBlum There were some reports yesterday that Antonacci was being called up, but later was clarified that it was merely being discussed and no decision to do so had actually been made.

Sam Antonacci is weak on crime

@RunDMcD They both will start plus France too probably - who else is there? Imai on DL now too and they wont want to risk throwing McCullers without the extra day.

@blibros I think Colton Gordon is the slam dunk to start. Arrighetti seems likely but not for sure

Jason Alexander started yesterday so he's no longer an option to start early this week. Arrighetti's chances to start on Wed increased (though they still haven't mentioned him that I've seen)

@UnderdogMLB why isnt Donovan playing? Why didnt he sit out Wed, a day game after a nite game, also vs a LHP - now he sits vs a RH after a day off?

Mariners 4/10 J. Crawford SS C. Raleigh C J. Rodríguez CF J. Naylor 1B R. Arozarena LF L. Raley RF C. Young 2B D. Canzone DH L. Rivas 3B E. Hancock SP

@SportsRadioWIP They werent going anywhere with him anyway, losing to San Anton when Wemby only played 1Q showed that. They sat and took lazy 3 pts while SA got lots of easy buckets.

🚨Breaking: Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with appendicitis. What does this mean for the Sixers’ playoff run?

@NBCSPhilly Sixers were cooked when they couldnt beat SanAnt with Wemby out for 3/4 - doing the usual - taking lazy mediocre 3 pts while SA getting layups right and left - but ok, now we can blame another injury

More absurd injury misfortune for Joel Embiid ... That and more on the Sixers' outlook now. ⬇️ trib.al/gnzvduN

@titletownusa73 I love Petty, but Bowie is just on another level - its taking nothing away from Petty (or Seeger/Springsteen) -

Which of these musicians do you like better? David Bowie had 42% Tom Petty had 26% Bob Seger had 22% Bruce Springsteen had 10%

@zackwaxx @deadpullhitter @BullpenGuru Assume this was because he had an invalid roster after the move - no 2b or no MI. Should be a rule in place for this, such as takes a 0 next wk, but lame software has to be able to handle it and probably can't.

I guess no one cares unless it’s me correcting an actual legit administrate mistake. Where are all the cry babies at now? Selective tears. @deadpullhitter @BullpenGuru

@JoeOrrico99 Thankfully had my ace Marquez to absorb the bad outing of my 7th starter Sale - but you have to put these guys out there when they have 2 starts

It’ll be nice to have my ace going tomorrow…and Chris Sale as well

@KeeganMatheson Only found a couple catchers who had this inj during the season and didnt play thru, both in 22. One had surgery, missed 10 wks, came back for 8g at end, hit awful. Other no surgery, back in 4 weeks, hit ok on return

The #BlueJays won't have a real timeline on Alejandro Kirk until after he meets with the specialist Monday. That will narrow down exactly which treatment and recovery they're dealing with. Until then: I'd let my dog do my taxes before listening to a Twitter Doctor.

@JonPgh Great idea. Dont love SwK for Zone as less sw% = more cs/less quality BIP. Prefer swing% (lower is better) and whiff%. Weighted combo of these should roughly yield a CSW for Zone. Perhaps also a BIP rate for zone vs non-zone. Big fan of your work and highly recommend it.

added some in-zone data tracking to the long list of Google Sheets we have... This will look only at pitches in the zone and then calculate SwStr%, Whiff%, xwOBA, and xBA. And then it uses xwOBA and SwStr% to calculate a "score" to try to show who the nastiest pitchers in the zone are Early leaders: 1. Luis Castillo 2. Cam Schlittler 3. Jacob Misiorowski 4. Joe Ryan 5. Bryan woo ^ unsurprising, besides maybe Luis Castillo looking like his old self in that first outing Sneakier names: - Matthew Boyd - AJ Blubaugh - Michael Wacha - Kodai Senga - Taj Bradley - Justin Sterner - Reid Detmers Can't react to this yet, but after 3-4 starts we'll start checking it regularly

@anne__rogers Sure, turn to him and say "No way in hell you are going in"

Quatraro continued, on whether he would turn to Estévez in the ninth: “I'm not going to say he wouldn't do it, but I also think would be probably smarter for us to try to build him a little bit in lower leverage first.” #Royals

Carlos Estévez is in a boot this morning and will have his ankle contusion reevaluated, but manager Matt Quatraro said he would be “surprised” if Estévez would be available today. If he were, Quatraro said “we would not be averse to putting him in a lower-leverage situation.”

@RosenJordanBlum why wasnt this data available during ST?

Spring training bat speed data has been made retroactively available on Baseball Savant. Top 23-and-unders:

@ahmedkutigi1 @realstewpeters NSV's are the new WMDs

I don’t know if these people pat each other on the back for saying the most ridiculous things to the public. Like Besset talking backstage to JD Vance: “Hey bro, I see what you did there with the Nuclear Suicide Vests. I wouldn’t go that far saying such a thing but the public will totally buy it.”

JD VANCE: “Iran was going to use Nuclear Suicide Vests to kill tens of thousands of people. That’s why they had to attack.” These people still haven’t realized that we’re not buying a word of their Israeli-written propaganda bullshit.

@AlexJStumpf Skenes hit w the WBC curse - who else will fall victim?

Paul Skenes’ afternoon is done after 1/3 of an inning. Don Kelly is taking him out after 37 pitches. Off day tomorrow. Obviously no reason to have him die on this hill. But wow.

Expect that teams drafting from the 1-4 spots in 15 tm will be quite dominant this year. In prior years the large edge of the early 1st rounders was muted by poor value options in rounds 2-3. Not so this year where early drafters had excellent choices in the next few rounds