While Luis Arraez boasts a generational contact tool, I... find the minuscule strikeout and whiff rates to be indicative of his incredibly stubborn approach. A really talented hitter, but he has over-optimized for contact, well past the point of diminishing returns. A thread 🧵show more

UCLA C Cashel Duggar has one of the highest... floors in the draft and has the upside to be a really solid MLB backstop. He is one of it not the best defensive catchers in the draft doing everything really well. He averaged a 1.86 pop time in game and held runners to a 62% SB clip against him which falls to 58% at 2B. He also moves very well behind the plate as a blocker and receiver. While the defense is the big highlight, Duggar has shown a very mature approach at the plate with a 17% K% compared to 14% BB% in 2026. He kept the Whiff and Chase rates under 20% as well. He finished the year slashing just .250/.378/.380. However the mature approach on top of the great frame at 6'2 200 pounds and being left handed hitter makes a lot of scouts love the upside. His defense is already near MLB ready and if he can become just a below average MLB hitter he will be a long term backup backstop. If the bat progresses even a little bit he has the upside to be a top 10-15 catcher in baseball.show more

Looking back, bias aside, this swing from Aaron Judge... must be admired for what it was as a truly defining moment of this or any era. If you really focus on the point of contact, the level of difficulty is astonishing. Generational.show more

Breen said this was "so much contact" and Legs... thought there was a lot of contact to the back of Amen's head. But the replay disproves that. The block is clean, and we know that after that, the rest of the minor contact is deemed marginal. And I just don't see contact to the headshow more

I want to point out how much of a... class act Joshua Jefferson has been the past week. He gets to play in NCAA Tourney, has it ripped away, and still answers every question openly and honestly, over and over while being his same polite self. Hard not to root for him #Cyclonesshow more

i apologize for being yoonnmin trash but we got... prolonged eye contact and a handful of close-proximity moments in the doc and i just want to soak and swim in this tiny sea for a little while 🥹show more

Cole Carrigg hit his first MLB home run in... just his third game since being called up from Triple-A. Carrigg is an above-average contact hitter who steals a ton of bags and has enough power to be a 15-20 homer guy. The profile is very fantasy-friendly.show more

.@BenCohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, launched the Department... of Pentagon Excess, or D.O.P.E. To make his point, he hoisted an electric chainsaw on the steps of the Capitol and carved into a mock Pentagon as $1,882 bills spilled to the ground. A thread 🧵show more

*Please share* There is a new givesendgo link I'd... like everyone to share setup by his family they have immediate access to. Because they confiscated his phone a week prior he will not have access to the other GSG until he is released and gets his phone back. Audio below from Dalton confirming this. Alex Rosen has already donated 10K to this GSG, he is in contact with the family and is a main point of contact as well. It helps them massively to have immediate access to funds.show more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "Ukraine is willing to discuss... territorial questions. But the contact line needs to be the starting point. Legal recognition of Russian-occupied territory is not a part of the discussion."show more

Haven't posted about Shadow in a while but today... there's a really cool new development. I got to try out a new tool that's in the works that allows for editing of the vfx files, and I made new effects for the Chaos Snap with it. Huge thanks to angryzor for the toolshow more

This was the play that got Lu Dort ejected.... The contact with Nikola Jokić appeared to be targeting his previously injured left knee. Some OKC fans are arguing it was just incidental contact and that Jokić sold it. But when asked, lead referee James Williams was clear that the action met the criteria for a flagrant foul due to the nature of the contact: “Lu Dort was assessed a flagrant foul penalty 2 because we deemed his contact on Jokić to be unnecessary and excessive with a high potential for injury, and also because the contact led to an altercation that did not dissolve. So, by rule, a flagrant foul penalty 2 carries an automatic ejection.”show more

The Yankees haven’t seen this version of Luis Gil... in a long time. The velocity returned. The strikeout stuff was there, too. Hopefully Gil gets back on track and does it over the course of a full season. He just needs to be healthy. My Gil piece for SI!show more

Luis Arraez, the hit collector, is doing it again... this season. Low bat speed but ELITE barrel accuracy and bat to ball skills. Debunking that you have to have high bat speed to be a good hitter. Notice how he holds his finish with his head down on every swing. Low liners>show more

I find it crazy that Quinshon Judkins averages 3.7... yards per carry but averages 3.3 yards after contact Meaning on average he is getting hit not even a half yard past the LOS Imagine if the #Browns OL just gave him a sliver of daylightshow more

Because I think Woohyun is not appreciated as a... dancer enough, here’s a thread of my favourite nam woo hyun dance parts! His dance moves are sleek and sharp and I think he embodies the music he is dancing to really well.show more

Sometimes through the BS you can lose sight of... how dope life is. I gotta thank The Halluci Nation and Fucked Up for letting me be apart of the #HeresTheUnityTour this past weekend. Once in a lifetime opportunity to make memories with some incredibly talented people.show more

One player I've really grown to like over the... last several months is OF Kane Kepley (Carolina Baseball). Started right away at Liberty where he hit .310/.457/.432 with 13 XBH, but had a breakout summer in the Coastal Plain League to the tune of a .339/.468/.546 slash line with 8 2B, 5 HR, 26 SB and 29 BB to 11 Ks. Carried that momentum over into last season and hit .330/.482/.521 with 12 2B, 9 HR, 25 SB and an impressive 53 BB to just 27 Ks. Kepley then proceeded to have a productive summer on the Cape in which he was named an All-Star. Compact build at 5'8" and 165-pounds with sneaky strength packed into his frame. Crouched stance in the box with a medium-high handset and slightly open front side. Kepley has a minimal load and utilizes a toe tap that leads into a normal stride. With two strikes, Kepley will widen his stance and sit deeper in his base, choke up a bit, and shorten his stride in order to maximize his chances of moving the baseball. Quick hands with present bat speed. Will drop his back side to help create leverage. Overall, it's a compact operation in which he takes an efficient path to contact. Kepley's bat-to-ball skills and hand-eye coordination are outstanding. Last spring at Liberty, he boasted a 90% overall contact rate and a 93% overall IZ contact rate. It was a similar story this summer, as he ran an 89% overall contact rate and a 94% overall IZ contact rate. Kepley's pitch recognition skills and approach are both highly advanced and he rarely expands the strike zone. On the Cape, his overall chase rate was a minuscule 13%. Kepley has high-level barrel skills, a trait that is on display day in and day out. His bat control and adjustability are also advanced. Kepley is capable of using the entire field, but his highest quality of contact does come to the pull side. Hit tool is comfortably a 55, but it's closer to a 60. Kepley without a doubt is a hit-over-power profile, but there is a little bit of thump to the pull side. Has shown the ability to turn on pitches on the inner-half and drive them to the PS. For a player with this kind of profile, he posted respectable Max EVs of 106.1 and 101 during the spring and summer, respectively. Below-average power, but he'll run into a ball on occasion and hit 10+ HRs this spring. Not only is Kepley a plus runner, he most importantly knows HOW to run and get the most out of his legs. Quick first step and really advanced baseball sense both translate to the base paths where he's a chaos causer and speeds up the game for opposing teams. Kepley's speed also allows him to take an extra base on a ball in the gap or down the line. Across 179 games between college and summer ball, Kepley is 89-for-97 on stolen base attempts. Kepley this spring will rove CF for North Carolina. His speed and instincts plays at the position and he has gap-to-gap range with solid closing speed. Gets good reads off the bat. Kepley's arm is fringy, but his overall defensive skillset will give him the opportunity to prove he can stick at the position professionally. Versatile enough to play all 3 OF spots. Kepley is an old-fashioned baseball rat who plays at one speed. Selfless, high-energy player who can affect the game in a myriad of ways. A little reminiscent of Tommy Hawke. Top-5 round type this July.show more

Dylan Cease, set to hit free agency this offseason,... could be a potential target for the Cubs. One of baseball’s top strikeout arms, he’s totaled 653 Ks over the last three seasons and ranks in the 95th percentile in whiff rate (33.4%).show more

Brady Christensen (Achilles) has been cleared for contact, the... longtime #Panthers lineman tells The Charlotte Observer. He also detailed his rehab process, his ongoing free agency and the possibility of a Carolina reunion this summer:show more