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Yeah I agree with this. I also think that policing this sort of thing (culturally) creates too broad of a standard, and that's always a bad thing when it comes to speech. I am happy to live in a country where our speech problems are cultural and not a matter of law, like they are in so many...

Yes, this.

I'm being literal. There are no hate speech laws in the US and the Supreme Court has continuously ruled that such laws would be unconstitutional

I said: "Hate speech isn't a legal thing in America"

Hate speech isn't a legal thing in America

I just got knocked out of MLB The Show's New Years Cup in the round of 32. The entire board has been devastated.

I don't like the idea of postseason bans in professional sports, because it benefits some teams over others. But they shoulda had the hammer brought down on them. At least as bad as the penalties that we got

The troubling thing to me is that the Braves aren't behaving like they know this. They signed guys like Hech and Solarte, but I don't think either of them adequately fills that LHH 3rd base hole that we need filled. The only remaining FA who comfortably fills that slot is Holt and we haven't...

One point I do think should be addressed is the fact that you laid out the 120+ million dollar = 80 FV framework while the article you linked didn't state that and put a 112 million dollar figure for a 70 FV hitting prospect. Are you suggesting that the value delta between the worst possible 80...

Honestly, if Fangraph's own standard were the ~20 WAR over their first 6-7 seasons, I'd probably have less of a problem with them giving Wander an 80 grade. I don't really think that 7 WAR per season or 20 over 6-7 is entirely accurate. I'd like to see someone analyze a sample of highly rated...

How many players produce ~20 WAR over their first 6-7 years? I know its probably not a ton, but I also think its probably more than >1% of the league, which is what it would have to be in order to be three standard deviations above average in a normal distribution. But I don't know, I could be...

I think the 20-80 grade scale is probably more useful for individual tools rather than overall grade, but I don't think its impossible to be an 80 grade prospect, just insanely difficult and probably not realistic. As good of a prospect as Mike Trout was, I don't think its reasonable to presume...

That's not necessarily what the goal is. The goal is to increase the interest in the sport among that demographic. A tangential benefit of that should be more people in that age group wanting to be involved in the sport, but the main focus should be to make it more fun for kids to watch and...

My blind, non-binary, autistic child with terminal rabies also chooses not to bet on baseball. Xe's more into betting on international tap dancing competitions. Xe lost a buttload when Tija Tkalcevic edged out Elisa Fabriziani at the 2018 IDO World Championships in the Adult female solo...

He's definitely an offensive upgrade over Ender and Nick, but only a clear upgrade over Nick in terms of overall value. If we didn't already have Ender/Neck to platoon with Duvall (and maybe Riley or something depending on what Camargo does), then Joc might make some sense. Since we already...

If you're talking about their median expected outcome at the time they were prospects, I don't think it'd be fair to grade any of those guys as 80 grade. Most of those guys hit the extreme upper end of their possible outcomes, which is what makes them superstars.

Baseball does fine with the demographic that is usually in the gambling sphere. That 10-24 age range is where baseball is really struggling, and that is the demographic that these changes would mostly be targeted at.

Trevor Bauer just put out a video that was highly critical of Rob Manfred and everything he has done as commissioner. He brings up a lot of points, but one of the ones that got me thinking was how the MLB has utterly failed to reach young audiences. There are several reasons for this, but I...

Wasn't the package for Pederson just Luis Rengifo? If so, I think offering Camargo, Wilson, and Jenista to allow the Dodgers to get under the luxury tax while getting back a guy who doesn't platoon well with our current outfield mix doesn't seem like a terrific idea and a pretty substantial...

Also, Fangraphs has some pretty strange individual tool grades on some guys this year. I haven't looked at their track record with stuff like this, but it seems pretty odd to give a guy like Julio Rodriguez a CV of 25 for both his hit and game power tool after he dominated Rookie ball, A ball...