Sam Miller
@sammillerbb.bsky.social
Ballwriter, pebblehunting.substack.com
Jesse Chavez played 18 seasons for nine teams but his first post-retirement job, as a bullpen coach, is on a different team entirely. That's gotta be really rare.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Jesse Chavez played 18 seasons for nine teams but his first post-retirement job, as a bullpen coach, is on a different team entirely. That's gotta be really rare.
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Ball things that exist now: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/new-and-no...
New & Novel In '25
Don't let it go away. This feeling has got to stay.
pebblehunting.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ball things that exist now: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/new-and-no...
Ball things that exist now: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/new-and-no...
New & Novel In '25
Don't let it go away. This feeling has got to stay.
pebblehunting.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ball things that exist now: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/new-and-no...
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the good news is the price change doesn't kick in until 1/1, and we're currently running our yearly promotion for a yearly sub, a copy of the Annual, and a t-shirt, so there literally isn't a better time to subscribe or extend a subscription with us:
BP360 is Live! | Baseball Prospectus
Baseball Prospectus' yearly promotion is back.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
the good news is the price change doesn't kick in until 1/1, and we're currently running our yearly promotion for a yearly sub, a copy of the Annual, and a t-shirt, so there literally isn't a better time to subscribe or extend a subscription with us:
Dude you are there WAY too early, on a number of levels
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Dude you are there WAY too early, on a number of levels
I just want to say that "This is the first ever known David Wright-only ballot" is a incredible sentence, I love it
Ballot #5 is from a voter who wishes to remain anonymous. As a refresher, we are unable to report adds or drops, if any, on anonymous ballots.
This is the first ever known David Wright-only ballot. There will not be a unanimous inductee this year.
In the Tracker: tracker.fyi
This is the first ever known David Wright-only ballot. There will not be a unanimous inductee this year.
In the Tracker: tracker.fyi
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I just want to say that "This is the first ever known David Wright-only ballot" is a incredible sentence, I love it
Excellent, some amazing quotes in here: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb...
What MLB's salary cap history can tell us about the upcoming CBA negotiations
For almost as long as baseball has existed as an organized sport, team owners have been trying to suppress payrolls
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December 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Excellent, some amazing quotes in here: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb...
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Freak Injury Hall of Fame: 1st Ballot. 🥎
December 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Freak Injury Hall of Fame: 1st Ballot. 🥎
End up buying it out for $75M
According to ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez, the Angels and Anthony Rendon are in discussions to buy out the final year of his seven-year, $245 million contract.
Rendon is owed $38 million in 2026 and is expected to retire, per Gonzalez.
www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
Rendon is owed $38 million in 2026 and is expected to retire, per Gonzalez.
www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
Source: Angels in talks to buy out Rendon deal
The Angels and third baseman Anthony Rendon are in talks about buying out the final year of his seven-year, $245 million contract, a source told ESPN.
www.espn.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
End up buying it out for $75M
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A very bad pitch that worked, and some very great plays that didn't pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The Worst Pitch I Loved All Year
The third route to heroism.
pebblehunting.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A very bad pitch that worked, and some very great plays that didn't pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
A very bad pitch that worked, and some very great plays that didn't pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The Worst Pitch I Loved All Year
The third route to heroism.
pebblehunting.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A very bad pitch that worked, and some very great plays that didn't pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
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this is absolutely bananas
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
this is absolutely bananas
I can't tell you how happy this makes me
(as the guy writing the Orioles' BP Annual essay this year)
(as the guy writing the Orioles' BP Annual essay this year)
Late-night trade:
The Orioles trade Grayson Rodriguez to the Angels for Taylor Ward.
The Orioles trade Grayson Rodriguez to the Angels for Taylor Ward.
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I can't tell you how happy this makes me
(as the guy writing the Orioles' BP Annual essay this year)
(as the guy writing the Orioles' BP Annual essay this year)
Been trying to write about Infield In and buddy this was a mistake
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Been trying to write about Infield In and buddy this was a mistake
I know he's little but IMO they should still give him the adult procedure
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I know he's little but IMO they should still give him the adult procedure
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I always like it when PBS says that viewers like me.
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I always like it when PBS says that viewers like me.
I am unafraid to rank the most recent World Series: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/stakes-sto...
Stakes, Story & Spin
Updating the all-time World Series Greatness Rankings
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November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I am unafraid to rank the most recent World Series: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/stakes-sto...
I'd really like to rerun this timeline with Aaron Judge trying to stay a two-way player after high school
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'd really like to rerun this timeline with Aaron Judge trying to stay a two-way player after high school
They'll really rehabilitate anything
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They'll really rehabilitate anything
Let's go, J-Ram, finish the job!
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Let's go, J-Ram, finish the job!
"Perhaps our identities are just sunk costs, and we’re bound by pride to keep being more ourselves with each passing day." --Patrick Dubuque
Boras-a-palooza at the GM Meetings begins with a lengthy celebration of Top Gun in describing Cody Bellinger, an “urban maverick.” With no qualifying offer attached to Bellinger, Boras says, “That goose is gone.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"Perhaps our identities are just sunk costs, and we’re bound by pride to keep being more ourselves with each passing day." --Patrick Dubuque
It's obviously smart for a million reasons that so-so starters don't throw 150 pitches in postseason games anymore, but watching Britt Burns pitch several innings out of gas sounds like it was pretty fun, too:
Quantum Leap: 10 Things You Need to Know About the 1983 ALCS
by Matthew Trueblood (@matrueblood.bsky.social)
www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
by Matthew Trueblood (@matrueblood.bsky.social)
www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Quantum Leap: 10 Things You Need to Know About the 1983 ALCS | Baseball Prospectus
Things are different, but perhaps not as different as you might assume.
www.baseballprospectus.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's obviously smart for a million reasons that so-so starters don't throw 150 pitches in postseason games anymore, but watching Britt Burns pitch several innings out of gas sounds like it was pretty fun, too:
@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com This was pre-2016, dang man.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com This was pre-2016, dang man.
This phrase is simply too sticky, I'm going to be saying "payment for a horse" after severely wild pitches for the rest of time.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This phrase is simply too sticky, I'm going to be saying "payment for a horse" after severely wild pitches for the rest of time.