Edman85

Not going after you, but tweets like these drive me bonkers and are all too common in the Elon Blue Check era. Screengrab roster resource and collect from the clicks. Doesn't add anything and takes away from a good site that could start struggling again if enough of these accounts keep doing this.

Phil Bickford on a minor league deal just showed up in the transaction logs.

That is the assault rifle Christmas card guy.

My cousin said the same thing. I have noticed bipartisan extreme being pushed on my feed.

Would have to leave my job. Trust me. The thought has crossed my mind.

Not Congress, but my competitive state house seat's Republican incumbent is currently running unopposed. As is the lunatic state senator. Florida Dems are worthless.

0 debt, paid in full every month. Amex Blue Preferred for groceries, streaming services, and gas. Amex Gold for restaurants and travel (and groceries once Blue Preferred hits its limit) Fidelity cash rewards for the rest. (2% reward on everything, no fee)

I assume you are paying taxes on any 401k withdrawals? Otherwise, that is some loophole.

Hedley!

I don't know if this has been mentioned here, but Dombrowski's original analytics guy, Director of Baseball Ops, Mike Smith is on Twitter and is an interesting follow if you are into the roster minutiae without the smug that I bring.

Since when does a judge stop this administration from malfeasance?

I saw Bondi said nobody is above the law, but the Icezi who killed Good apparently is.

I would bet the next MLB signing isn't until February when you can just 60-Day Jobe and not make a 40-man roster move. Every 40-man move now hurts, and unless you are shopping at the top of the market, there's diminishing returns. Unless, the free agents force your hand...

I... cooked up a theory after seeing the Dodgers remaining draft picks. https://bsky.app/profile/ebajek85.bsky.social/post/3mck2emt7dc2i

Tigers have only been "File and Trial" since Harris took over. And Mize was technically a loophole because there was an option year tacked on.

The Ford employee has more in that Gofundme than I have in my 401k after 17 years of contributing, half of that time maxing out. Good work if you can get it.

Yes for 4 years. Then people forgot about his bad behavior for some ****ing reason.

I would argue every minor league veteran signed this offseason is more likely to contribute to the team than a 17 year old.

International signing day. BA has the Tigers with six signings so far, including 2.3M to Venezuelan catcher Manuel Bolivar. No pitchers among the six for those shaming the Tigers for signing pitchers to minor league deals.

I think the Tigers caught some pitch design lightning in a bottle in 2024 and the league caught up a bit in 2025. So when they added some flawed pitchers in hope of a fix, they ended up throwing meat because the league was ready.

Yep, why that was interesting.

Funny thing is I thought the same thing about another ginger who was in movies around the same time: Jeffrey Jones.

On the topic of TV people being creeps, the NYT had a story on the Frugal Gourmet and a documentary that came out detailing his accusers today. I went to his wikipedia and noticed it was very sanitized. There are several people working on his behalf in the edit discussion trying to keep the allegations off the page. It was interesting to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jeff_Smith_(chef)

I always got creep vibes from him for some reason. Ah, I see he had an incident in 1994, pre-internet.

Additionally, just looking at raw stats, it takes like 1,000 PA vs. LHP for any split to be meaningful. With swing path analysis now, teams may be able to detect something faster now vs. different pitch shapes or use Kinetrax or something similar to help a player learn to hit the opposite hand. But you can do that in the cage, not in the game.