Jarrett Seidler
@seidler
senior writer @baseballprospectus.com, longtime crank, social circle online circle friend of the show, here more now
We ranked Martin Shelar as the No. 13 player in the entire draft. All three of us were very comfortable with that ranking. www.baseballprospectus.com/prospects/ar...
I think authoritarian behavior is bad even when it leads to outcomes I have personal preferences for
I think all of the "there are four votes to end birthright citizenship" stuff here is...not really reading the decision very closely. I don't even think you can doom this past 6-3 given Gorsuch's opinion is very explicit *the other way*, he mostly "dissented" for stupid law professorial reasons
“This case is actually about Dred Scott” is how you know you’re in for an absolutely wild majority opinion
I bought multiple copies of the 1990 Skybox Michael Jordan today, otherwise known as “The Millennial Mona Lisa”
folks, it is actually possible to roll an 82-0 without pulling Wilt, Kareem, MJ, or LeBron
I’ve had a lot of pretty cool concert experiences but being first row a few feet off the back of the stage for the Bruce and Tom version of Ghost of Tom Joad is pretty far up there
A bit I started seven years ago because I thought one of my underrated writer friends was funny has led here
I play in one serious Scoresheet dynasty league and I post my picks every year as accountability. The draft pool is basically 2025 IRL draftees plus guys who wouldn’t have been owned out of last year’s draft in a league where ~2000 players are owned. (There were financial incentives to Baez at 6)
I have been writing this on and off for 18 months and I think it's finally good to go
wrote this a little over two months ago (100 more like it are available from your fine local bookseller) @baseballprospectus.com
MLR 3d-f explicitly invalidate verbal agreements made more than 20 days prior to contract execution and explicitly say that oral agreements outside that window are punishable. This is the rule that they could start enforcing and end all of this tomorrow
This is the worst thing happening in baseball. It is happening all the time and nearly every team is doing it. And a lot of prospect media is complicit.
Did he do the Dave Stewart and think he was trading for the other Acuña