SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.

@djmosfett

Baltimore's finest professional anteater. Formerly a member of the Borg. Flying the PhillieDrone flag.

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jul 12

Well, well, well, looks like Liz was right as usual!

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jul 11

Not surprising that MLB gives space to the premiere “spying on your sports child forever” app: Gamechanger, owned by Dick’s

The "Gamechanger” booth at MLB All-Star Village, promoting an offer to take pictures of your kids for a “highlight reel”.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jul 11

Hello from All-Star Village, 30 years after I was here for the 1996 Fan Fest

The inside of the Pennsylvania Convention Center decked out for the MLB All-Star Village, a faux town layout with road signs, booths, etc. devoted to baseball.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jul 3

2020 Census data shows it clear as day (reposted to fix a typo):

A screenshot of the 2020 US Census Demographic Data Map Viewer, with the map centered on Dayton, Ohio & displaying a tract-by-tract intensity map of the percentage of people who self-identified as Black/African-American. Dark green areas indicate high percentages, lighter shades of green indicate a lower percentage.

The map shows that the Black/African-American population of the Dayton area is largely concentrated west of I-75 and south of I-70, two highways that show up as white lines that split the map into quarters.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jun 3

Seeing it all written out like that:

Homer Simpson has a heart attack, clutching his chest and screaming. In an inset, we see his heart literally bulging as it fails.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Apr 29

Homer Simpson, wearing giant horn-rimmed glasses, stands in front of a bathroom mirror. He points a finger at his head while he attempts to say something smart.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Apr 29

I repeat: Fire Dave Dombrowski now if he even thinks for a single additional second about hiring Alex Cora bsky.app/profile/matt...

Mattingly, on Tuesday, promised some changes; he did not reveal specifics.
The Phillies have taken a deeper look into how they prepare for games - and that includes the input from analysts in the club's research and development department. Mattingly could take a more hands-on approach.
He will manage only for the remainder of the 2026 season. The Phillies will make another push for Cora in the winter.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Apr 16

Love using this site! So functional!

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SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Mar 22

A model of Smithers being stuffed in the foot of a coffin under Mr. Burns.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Mar 3

We love to see a measured response to a fog delay: pyrotechnics!

A foggy soccer stadium is lit up by a huge volley of fireworks from the stand behind one of the goals.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Feb 13

I can’t see his name without thinking about @crabin.bsky.social’s old pinned tweet:

+ Pinned
Chris Cabin
@Crabin
Sweet merciful heaven, will someone tell Brett Ratner to put his dick back in his pants?
17:42 • 3/23/17

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Feb 12

Travis Sawchik loves abusers like Elon Musk and Trevor Bauer

Travis Sawchik O @Travis_Sawchik
Many have bet against Tesla/ @elonmusk -- quite costly to do so recently -- but this @morganhousel piece from 2018 did a good job digging into misunderstood personality traits that can drive innovation collaborativefund.com/ blog/natural-m...

Screencap inside the tweet:
People love the visionary genius side of Musk, but want it to come without the side that operates in his distorted I-don't-care-about-your-customs version of reality. But I don't think those two things can be separated.
They're the risk-reward tradeoffs of the same personality trait.
Same for John Boyd.
Same for Steve Jobs, who was both a genius and a monster of a boss.
Same for Walt Disney, whose ambitions pushed every company he touched to the razor's edge of insolvency.
[End of screencap]

2:32 PM • 1/8/20 • Twitter Web App

fivethirtyeight.com
Jun. 4, 2019, at 2:45 PM
How Trevor Bauer
Remade His Slider - And Changed Baseball
By Travis Sawchik
Filed under MLB
Travis Sawchik is a FiveThirtyEight staff writer. His new book "The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players," co-authored with The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh, is available this week. In it, they examine how outsiders (and a few forward-thinking insiders) are employing unconventional ideas along with new data from new technology to lead a bottom-up revolution in improving skill levels. We're publishing an excerpt of the book on how Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer, a trailblazer in player development, used new technology like the high-speed Edgertronic camera, which he introduced to baseball - along with some stealthy reconnaissance — to fuel his 2018 breakout. It was Bauer who ushered a new, game-altering field into the sport: pitch design.

The Athletic
EXCLUSIVE
The most interesting man in baseball: Trevor Bauer is finding his place in the world
By Travis Sawchik
June 6, 2017

FANGRAPHS:
Did Trevor Bauer Discover a
Road Map to Another
Level?
by Travis Sawchik
June 1, 2017

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Feb 12

Despite his time as a beat writer, Travis Sawchik sees players through only one lens: Surplus Value

Travis Sawchik • @Travis_Sawchik
12 games in, Eric Thames is already providing surplus value (1.2 fWAR) for the Brewers in 2017 ($4 million salary)
12:17 PM • 4/18/17 • Twitter Web Client
9 Retweets 20 Likes

Travis Sawchik @Travis_Sawchik
Andrew McCutchen leads the Pirates in AVG, OBP, SLG, HR, R, RBI, BB, WAR, wRC+, WOBA, Surplus Value ... Yes, he'll be missed
9:23 PM • 8/5/14 • Twitter Web Client
8 Retweets 8 Likes

Travis Sawchik
@Travis_Sawchik
Clint Hurdle called Rene Gayo "a force multiplier"
... Gayo inked Marte & Polanco for 240k. They will produce millions in surplus value
4:56 PM • 6/10/14 • Twitter Web Client

Travis Sawchik @Travis_Sawchik
Francisco Liriano's surplus value is $9.25 million to date. Any offseason free agent providing a greater return?
1:12 PM • 8/22/13 • Twitter for iPhone
5 Retweets

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Feb 12

Travis Sawchik’s been pushing his tedious cap-and-floor desires for at least THIRTEEN YEARS:

Travis Sawchik ®
@Travis_Sawchik
Blog: Should MLB players push for a salary cap? blog.triblive.com/bucco-blog/201...
12:03 PM • 11/7/13 • Twitter Web Client

Travis Sawchik @Travis_Sawchik
What should MLB players be fighting for? A salary floor

Link card:
“With a widening revenue split, could MLB benefit from a salary cap?
triblive.com”
6:54 PM • 11/30/16 from Mount Lebanon, PA • Twitter Web Client

Travis Sawchik @Travis_Sawchik
The growing revenue split between owners/players & how players could benefit from salary cap-&-floor system:

Link card:
“With a widening revenue split, could MLB benefit from a salary cap?”

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Feb 12

evidence of the second thing, because I keep receipts:

Travis Sawchik • @Travis_Sawchik
One negative aspect of the analytics movement for players has been, l think, more fans think like (and pretend and/or want to be Moneyball-ish GMs. So that means looking at contracts from a club perspective. So winning cheaply becomes paramount and more accepted by public.
10:48 AM • 3/25/19 • Twitter Web Client

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jan 31

Got off my proverbial ass, thanks for the push. Dan forever.

A donation receipt to the Everywhere Project in memory of Dan McQuade

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jan 22

We’re 6 months away from the 10 year anniversary(!) of @bgawlowski.bsky.social and I saying this was the case when we reviewed Brian Kenny’s awful book.

It appears best suited for fans who reflexively assert the lessons of the last 20 years whenever a manager or a player does something contrary to this new conventional wisdom. Manager bunts: chart says bad decision! Lefty bats against lefty with righty on the bench: fireable offense! It's an audience that, from another lens, looks strikingly similar to the "purposefully ignorant" pack Kenny lampoons throughout the book. —Brendan Gawlowski

It's not just that Kenny's causes in this book aren't important-that they're hot takes generating endless content for a world that demands endless content from its media
figures. It's that Kenny's premise, the one that he states in the very first sentence, is entirely contradictory. Brian Kenny is the face you are most likely to see when you turn on the league's official channel. His book has admiring blurbs by a number of the sport's titans, from Buck Showalter to John Smoltz to Bob Costas to Tom Verducci to, yes, Billy Beane. He is orthodoxy. The outsiders are now the insiders, and they've forgotten what was valuable about them being on the outside in the first place: humility, perspective, and the freedom to care deeply about what really matters.

Sean O'Rourke is a member of the Baseball Prospectus stats team. Brendan Gawlowski reviews books for the site.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jan 18

Reminiscent of one of my favorite Brian Dawkins moments:

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Jan 2

The cover of Jane McAlevey’s “No Shortcuts: Organizing For Power in the New Gilded Age”, which is the book title in blue (with art deco embellishments) on an orange background.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Dec 20

God I love cricket

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Tongue to Head, OUT
oh, whoops... Head's gone! Tongue's weird

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Dec 3

Check out the responses on the other site from the people Drellich profiled; nothing but hit dogs hollering and clout farmers.

Tweet from @MrAzSports
This title is such clickbait, disappointment in this Evan.
4:47pm 12/2/2025

Tweet from @jFudgy_
I was excited when I heard a reporter was interviewing members of our team on how the MLB was hearing out our concerns and getting our views +input. Instead you post an article with a horribly misleading/clickbait title to try and farm clicks and push your agenda at our expense.

Tweet from @cOry024
None of this is true you fkn dork. I was in every single meeting. Writing dumb shit like this is probably why you can't get more than $10 for your book.
6:08pm 12/2/25

Tampa Bay Tay @TayVictoria8 •5h
FWIW it took the entire regular season & postseason before labor topics came up.
We'd already learned about TJ, torpedo bats, social strategy, + more. When it did come up, it was because members brought it up.
MLB presented info & listened to us.
We didn't all agree, either.

Alys @alys216 • 6h
being a part of the Fan Council is such an amazing experience! i'm a representative for the Guardians, and it's been so interesting and rewarding hearing from so many different fans in addition to the opportunities MLB has given us

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Nov 26

“Anyone using their title is insufferable”

A screen cap of 3 tweets:
Dr. Émile Torres says, in part:
I do it [use my Dr. title] because I worked unbelievably hard to get that honorific. I tell my students: having a PhD means only one thing: that you--statistically speaking--know more than almost anyone else in the world about one or two narrow topics …

Josh Barro replies to Dr. Torres:
Gets PhD, ends up hosting a podcast with Kate Willett. Clings to the honorific because it's all he has in the world.

Sorry, literally every person who goes by
"Dr." and isn't a medical doctor is insufferable. None of you are the exception.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Nov 19

Rob Manfred, consummate liar:

NEW YORK - Major League Baseball
"understood the prop bet issue from the very beginning," commissioner
Rob Manfred said Wednesday
afternoon at the league's
headquarters, where he held his first press conference since the arrests of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz on allegations they conspired with bettors.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Nov 12

While @lizroscher.bsky.social and the Hittin’ Season gang cook up fresh new podcasts for their fans, I retire to handle necessary chores in Bakumatsu-era Japan:

A picture of a flat screen TV. The TV shows a wood-chopping mini game from “Like A Dragon: Ishin!” for PS4, where a samurai in a big blue and white coat chops wood with an axe.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Nov 11

🎶the sharp ones, they say, catch the posts in 4K when chance puts a good one behind ‘er🎶

The prior tweet, paired with a post from Kelsey Atherton that reads:
"don't forget to leave a taconite sphere under your pillow tonight for the Witch of November so that all sailors may safely reach shore.”

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Nov 8

updating the ol’ banner with this beauty

“Zohran for New York”-style word art that says “Posts for No One”
On the first line, “Posts” is centered in a yellow all-caps serif font with a stark red-orange drop shadow.
On the second line:
“For” is in a handwritten-style italic font in a slightly more pure yellow than the yellow used for “Posts”.
“No One” is in a bold, sans-serif block font in the same color as “For”.

Both lines are on a deep blue background.

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Oct 27

How does he manage to look worse than Neil O’Donnell?

A football card of Neil O’Donnell wearing a throwback 1933 Pittsburgh Steelers uniform: yellow jersey with incredibly thick vertical black stripes, a gaudy white #14 on the right shoulder, an NFL 75th anniversary patch on the left shoulder, and a giant Pittsburgh city crest on the midsection……plus a pair of tan pants

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Oct 16

Here's one starring @nickstellini.bsky.social!

Two tweets from 1/15/2022:

Nick Stellini @StelliniTweets
Amazon trying to make "Stat that!" a thing is pathetic

Reply from
PhillieDrone @PhillieDrone
Every AWS commercial involving sports analytics has been truly embarrassing (remember the "fighter jet radar" Statcast ones?)

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Oct 16

Three tweets by the author:

2/10/2021 -
(Responding to a tweet about the NHL using Amazon Web Services)
Cool, more stupid as hell AWS commercials that make an RFID sensor look like a dick or a missile or something.

3/30/2019 -
Oh good, the AWS ad that lies about what Al means is back. 🙄 (eyeroll emoji)

10/27/2018 -
Every time that AWS ad comes on, I feel like a part of me dies when they say a "missile radar"

SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL, PH.D.@djmosfett· Oct 11

When you share an opinion with Bill Plaschke, maybe it’s time to rethink whatever dumb stuff you’re saying: