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This Week in Baseball: 04-20-2020

Jonathan Judge & Sean O’Rourke – Baseball Prospectus ($): Defensive metrics are notoriously dicey. There are lots of defensive stats to choose from and for the longest time, I’ve used a hodgepodge approach when it comes to including specific defensive stats in my arguments and articles. I always assumed that I was making bad arguments […]

Posted on April 20, 2020April 19, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball: 04-13-2020

Jeff Passan – ESPN: I’m not a big fan of Passan and his scoop centered “I’ll write whatever you want just give me the details” style of journalism. That being said, sometimes his willingness to barter his integrity for access pays off. I’m glad Major League Baseball’s May Plan was leaked, it is a truly […]

Posted on April 13, 2020April 11, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball: 03-09-2020

Jake Mailhot – FanGraphs: Major League Baseball teams are signing their players to extensions earlier than usual. While I’m all for players getting their money from the powers that be it’s worth looking under the hood of what these extensions most likely mean. Owners know that they will be locking players out and that is […]

Posted on March 9, 2020March 8, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball: 03-02-2020

Andrew Baggarly & Zach Buchanan – The Athletic ($): I don’t care about the dangers involved in Madison Bumgarner moonlighting as rode roping competitor Mason Saunders. I wish Major League Baseball players were allowed to do these things freely. I don’t believe any business should have any say in the activities you partake in off […]

Posted on March 2, 2020February 29, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball: 02-24-2020

Jeffrey Paternostro – Baseball Prospectus ($): In a perfect world it wouldn’t be a big deal that minor leaguers will be appearing for the first time in the 20th edition of the MLB The Show video game franchise. Minor leaguers would be paid for their likenesses in addition to earning a living wage. We don’t […]

Posted on February 24, 2020February 20, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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billcubbieblue Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue ·
January 17, 2023

Twitter's an unorganized mess without a third party app to show Tweets chronologically, block out ads, & let me resume where I left off scrolling. I'm done here for the most part. I won't be posting much to Mastodon, but if I do you can find me at,

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billcubbieblue Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue ·
January 13, 2023

Seems like good ole Elon took away the functionality of the third party app I used to read Twitter. I'll likely be around way less as I really can't handle the non-chronological layout of Twitter on the app or web.

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billcubbieblue Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue ·
January 12, 2023

Colonizers gonna colonize.

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