Dottie Pepper is always terrific. Grossly underrated.

The 2-0 pitch. Strike three.

One of Jim Bouton's best friends. A key ancillary character in Ball Four.

There's a second homer tonight for Colton Cowser. He's at 18 percent in Yahoo, already jumping but headed for a spike. Fifth overall pick in the 2021 draft.

Colton Cowser is happening. Widely available in Yahoo.

Jackson Holliday Day.

I love that Jackson Holliday is from Stillwater, even if his Almost Famous days are just about over.

Definitely a bug, not a feature.

Lots of interesting ideas and exchanges under this header.

That should be it for Jose Leclerc.

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Last call for questions this week. Baseball, music, life, ask me anything.

I don't want to hear anybody's 'Buy Low Sell High' list unless they're presenting cases where experienced managers could reasonably disagree with you. Otherwise, you're just saying to everyone 'Go take advantage of the idiots.' Sure, that's +EV, but we knew that already.

Marcus Semien now up to eight walks against three strikeouts. Anyone who walks as much as they strike out is pretty much guaranteed to be great.

dancing at the zombie zoo

There are lots of questions with these pitcher injuries. There are some good theories. There aren't a lot of logical answers. I wrote a few things about it. sports.yahoo.com/the-spin-fanta…

Why MLB pitchers blow out their elbows in 2024:

Max-effort pitching, 65%
Workload/usage/effort as amateurs, 18%
Stuff we don't know yet, 14%
Pitch clock/less recovery, 3%

The clock may be having an effect on the margins, and we should consider that. It's nowhere near primary.

One of my favorite bands I've never seen, though I will fix that this year. These setlists are too good to be true.

The great William Nack used to talk about watching Secretariat at the Belmont runaway, nervous the entire time, petrified the horse was going too fast and something bad was going to happen.

I used to feel that way watching deGrom pitch. Now I feel that way watching everybody.