bbwaa // writer with a thrift store degree // managing editor @ baseball prospectushttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlrz7cbtyl2nIf I caught a foul ball I'd do what that one catcher did and switch it really quickly with a potato in my pocket before handing it to a kid14 May 2026 04:47 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrz7cbtyl2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlrz7cbtyl2nIf I caught a foul ball I'd do what that one catcher did and switch it really quickly with a potato in my pocket before handing it to a kid14 May 2026 04:47 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrz7cbtyl2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlqkrydss623A year ago, Eric Lauer was holding up Toronto's rotation. This week, the team released him without having anyone to pitch his next start. I wrote about that, and also how much I struggle with behavioral economics: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/107031/cold-takes-eric-lauer-the-tyranny-of-lauer-expectations/13 May 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqkrydss623https://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlqqevlfd72dI can't say if it's great or not, because I'm too close to it. But between the subject, thesis, and frame, it's probably the most me an article has been in a while [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqqevlfd72dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlqkrydss623A year ago, Eric Lauer was holding up Toronto's rotation. This week, the team released him without having anyone to pitch his next start. I wrote about that, and also how much I struggle with behavioral economics: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/107031/cold-takes-eric-lauer-the-tyranny-of-lauer-expectations/13 May 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqkrydss623https://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlpftxwbbk2nOutfielders should go back to celebrating victories the old-fashioned way: by penning thinly disguised anonymous pamphlets about their opponents, insinuating that they suffer from sexually transmitted diseases13 May 2026 03:55 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpftxwbbk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlob6chsxg2vAnd who knows, maybe if we record this episode three or four more times, I'll understand the Patrick Bailey trade. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlob6chsxg2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlo3zf4vpf2mAlek Thomas looks at his phone and his heart sinks, as he sees notifications that Esteury Ruiz, Trayce Thompson, and Taylor Trammell are all now following him on Instagram12 May 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo3zf4vpf2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlmtdxbxe22pMy wife just tried to assert that because the Mariners have won four playoff series in their existence, that’s essentially the same as 1.0 championships, which might be the most insane thing I’ve ever heard12 May 2026 03:19 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmtdxbxe22phttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mllkz33whi2tThis trade is about the Giants looking proactive, except it's actually about the Guardians looking for a free couch, except it's actually about the effect of ABS on catcher value, except it's actually about the fate of all those people who took classes in TV/VCR repair based on those 90s TV ads [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllkz33whi2thttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mllgxjkqgk2dWrote up the Patrick Bailey trade. It's barely about Patrick Bailey at all, which is both unfortunate and fitting, because Bailey himself is barely allowed to be Patrick Bailey these days. https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/106973/guardians-trade-for-new-improved-edition-of-austin-hedges/11 May 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllgxjkqgk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlh5lr3uv42dListening to Thinking Fast and Slow on audiobook while moving my yard, just as I'm sure the author intended09 May 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlh5lr3uv42dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mle6skojx22uIT IS TIME https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/106944/five-dive-episode-543-if-it-wasnt-for-those-meddling-loose-bodies/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle6skojx22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mle5e6jep22mI was playing gin with my son before school and he told me he wanted to spend 50 gold pieces to pick a specific card out of the deck and I was like holy shit he just reinvented Balatro from first principles08 May 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle5e6jep22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlbjgoe3v22dCarlos Correa is broken. The Houston Astros are broken. Things just break eventually. https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/106908/the-houston-astros-in-disrepair/07 May 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbjgoe3v22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlbrtvfuc22dSince it’s going to be a plot point on the next episode of Five & Dive, and because podcasting is an audial medium, here, sans context, are the contents of a package of Skwinkles07 May 2026 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbrtvfuc22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3mlbjgoe3v22dCarlos Correa is broken. The Houston Astros are broken. Things just break eventually. https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/106908/the-houston-astros-in-disrepair/07 May 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbjgoe3v22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml7x22o34s2bGoing to bump this one more time for the evening crowd, because I don’t write like this often and because I was pretty happy with it. Come for complaints about the modern media landscape, stay for the inference that an episode of Murder, She Wrote is more of a game than Battletoads [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 00:20 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7x22o34s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml7r45jymu2rIn a year when the strike zone has shrunk, no less. Which leads to the question: How small would the strike zone need to be for the Giants to take bases on balls like a normal team [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7r45jymu2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml7p76qkn22tMartín Pérez should be required to turn around and watch home runs hit off him, or get fined. No one else, just him [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7p76qkn22thttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml7nhninf723We need to know the details about Matthew Boyd's injury. Specifically: what shitty board game was he playing with his kids when he hurt himself. Was it Doodle Dice, or Pizza Party. Or was it one of those nightmare games of Mastermind where the kid wants to do the code but keeps giving wrong answers06 May 2026 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7nhninf723https://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml7lpti3qv2mAll players should be untouchable. C'mon. That's gross06 May 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7lpti3qv2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml7imwco322dWhen a pitcher breaks a hitter's bat, they should get to keep it. And then at the end of the year, if they clinch a playoff spot, they should get to pile all the wood on the mound and have a big bonfire06 May 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7imwco322dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml7ias7qs42dThe only version of the Odyssey I want to see is one about an actor being late to the set on the first day of shooting, and then he keeps getting lost and wandering into other movies on his way there06 May 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ias7qs42dhttps://bsky.app/profile/euqubud.baseballprospectus.com/post/3ml6wnpfvto2nToday I broke out the old newsletter and wrote about 1000xRESIST, an excellent video game about protest, adolescence, sacrifice, and living with a group of clones in an underground bunker to avoid a race of giant, disease-bearing aliens. It's also about how we need to stop needing games to be fun. https://textdump.beehiiv.com/p/1000xresist-a-story-that-makes-you-fight-to-turn-the-page06 May 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:6d4brir6mlguabf3ry5yyafc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6wnpfvto2n