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Brandon Nickell
@nickell.bsky.social
red sox r&d
Some personal news.

After embarking on a side quest for the past 2+ years with an early stage startup, I'm excited to share that I'm joining the Boston Red Sox R&D group as a Sr. Backend Engineer.

I always knew I was going to return to baseball--it's humbling to be a part of such a historic org.
July 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I always think of the 1927-28 Tigers logo when this topic comes up, but it's so ridiculous that it now holds a special place in my heart. Looks like a cereal box.
July 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
July 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Man if Joe Boyle limits the walks watch out.

via @tjstats.ca
July 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Rest in Peace, Dave Parker.
June 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Ancient proto pitch tracking of Rip Sewell's eephus.

youtu.be/1VYkh9C_BZk?...
June 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wow macOS actually shipping a useful feature for devs for native support of Linux containers.
June 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Programming in the 80's & 90's was basically dungeon synth.
May 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
You gotta love how the A's broadcast was just like "Nah, we'll just take a screenshot of the SQL query output as our graphic."
May 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It would actually be something if after all these years, Forrest Whitley ends up lifting the Astros up at the right time 👀
May 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A's legends Nomar Garciaparra & Manny Ramirez.
May 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Does Seth Brown have dirt on someone in the A's front office?

.293 career OBP over 1782 PA's.

Billy Hamilton's career OBP was .292.

Time to move on guys.
May 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Jon Postel was a wizard.
May 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Point all the Hawkeye cameras straight into the sun.
May 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our guy Rusney Castillo at age 37 currently slashing .714/.667/.857 and a swipe for the Conspiradores de Queretaro in the Mexican League.
April 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I can't stop looking at this.

There's Jacob Wilson and Nick Kurtz.

Then there's everyone else...
April 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
April 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Took my 8yo basketball star to her first NBA game, let’s go Warriors!
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Did you guys know that there is an official website for the NBA refs? I think i've looked at the FUN FACTS for the past 20 minutes for like over half of the refs. Of course Billly Kennedy is a Luther Vandross guy and loves Karaoke.

www.nbra.net/nba-official...
April 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
April 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The win probability graph from the Dbacks Cubs game.
April 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Probably an opportune time as any for the Astros bats to come alive against Kyle Hart, Yordan Alvarez over his last 150ish plate appearances or so has not looked very Yordan like. Hart tops out around 90.5mph.
April 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'll be locked in on the deGrom start vs LAD tonight.
April 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
When I see that W logo I immediately think of this.
April 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM