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CFA MLB & NFL Stats Sabermetric Friendly. Retweets are endorsements, of course they are, that's how it works. Spoil your pets. 30% parody #GrindtheSpreadsheets

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Shaun Newkirk

2 years

Friends: I started a Substack called "The Analytics Say..." where I'm going to be writing about thoughts that are too long for Twitter. It is free and will always be free. My first post is on where does the Royals organization goes from here

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So where do we go now?

Hi! Welcome to The Analytics Say… I started this Substack for topics that I think are interesting but are too long for Twitter. That means there will not necessarily be a weekly, daily, or even...

theanalyticssay.substack.com

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6 months

It was at the buzzer but we got delivered one of the best photos of 2023 today

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That tweet was not a joke

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Saw this on Reddit, you can make an entire lineup now out of current MLB managers on MVP Baseball 2005

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Clark Hunt asking for $1B in county money on the same day that the results came out that he was voted as the worst "owner in terms of willingness to invest in facilities" is just hilarious

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Chairman & CEO Clark Hunt and President Mark Donovan speak to the media.

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Mike Trout Alcides Escobar 1,121 Games 1,437 1,243 Hits 1,367 707 Singles 1,048 0 World Series 1 0 Playoff Wins 22 0 Gold Gloves 1 0 ALCS MVP 1 #ComparablyGreat

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Fan calls Giancarlo Stanton overrated... Stanton promptly homers.

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5 years

Rougned Odor's pants (shorts) today are ridiculous

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Royals largest contracts signed: Gil Meche - 5/$55M Ian Kennedy - 5/$70M Alex Gordon - 4/$72M Bob Witt Jr - 11/$288.8M Hilarious jump

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Lorenzo Cain's ovation upon returning to Kauffman Stadium for the first time

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8 months

Open target miss rate: the percentage of time that the receiver was charted as open, but the pass was charted as inaccurate, as a percentage of all charted open target attempts. Just 2023 only so far.

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2 years

lmao never seen a team subtweet its own players before

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3 years

Sharing this from a friend of mine who works for the KCMO Health Department and would consider him an expert on COVID in Kansas City.

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7 years

Cain, Moustakas, Hosmer, and Escobar walk off the field together for the final time.

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Trevor Bauer, frustrated after giving up 7 runs, throws a ball over the centerfield wall (kind of impressive)

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2 years

Angels trade these two you cowards they deserve better

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3 years

Mike Sweeney says Dayton Moore took a pay cut personally so that the Royals could pay their minor leaguers. That's awesome.

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2 years

Will repeat this over and again: teams really overthought the Kyle Hamilton situation in the draft. PFF's new #1 rookie defender

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James Bond fans can expect a relatively unknown male in his 30s to take over the 007 role.

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3 years

NFL tries everything they can do to draw a new generation in, including multi-casting a game on a kids channel. Meanwhile the MLB is ratting out people who post a three second GIF of Dan Vogelbach on Twitter and blacking out 49 states from a broadcast

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3 years

Okay the Rays are taking the analytics revolution too far

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7 months

Total quarterback EPA in games where the team ended up losing. Left side is mostly the QB played well in the loss. Right side is mostly the team lost due to QB play probably. Allen and Herbert both have 25+ EPA *Dobbs EPA figure includes MIN and AZ

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4 years

Martes gets 162 suspension for taking something that theoretically can help you cheat All other Astros players get a 0 game suspension for actually cheating

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Francis Martes, Astros pitcher, suspended 162 games for PED. 2nd offense. Rough stretch for Astros.

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3 years

I feel for the kid, man. I've lived through roughly 29-30 years of this

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4 years

It's true

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10 months

This is an actual ad that just appeared on my timeline.

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5 years

You could give every MiLB player a 15% raise with just .01% of these revenues

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5 years

BREAKING: MLB Sees Record Revenues Of $10.3 Billion For 2018 via @ForbesSports

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3 years

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3 years

There comes a point where you have to stop getting upset at the player - and be upset that he's being asked to do something that he's repeatedly shown an inability to do.

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9 years

Probably said "That's right, my father!"

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6 years

When they try to tell you that Imo's is actual pizza

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1 year

@Eve6 @oneunderscore__ As always:

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2 years

Conference realignment has to stop

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2 years

BREAKING - Georgia plans to submit bid to join EU on March 3 - TASS reports, citing ruling party

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3 years

Wild...the new #1 QB according to 538's Elo Ratings: Josh Allen Allen (284) Mahomes (274) Rodgers (258)

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2 years

That game was a real booster. A shot in the arm to the Royals squad. Just the medicine they needed.

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2 years

@elonmusk Now do Linette Lopez

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Elon Musk just suspended Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez for documenting the times Elon had his enemies tracked and doxxed She did not post anything related to Elon’s jet She has done amazing investigative reporting on Tesla

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3 years

The Royals did WHAT!?

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7 years

"F**k that streak (something), F***k that streak"

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6 months

The ball is still in the air here...

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6 months

Mecole you can still try to catch the ball!

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2 years

Please buy a Frank Clark jersey

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4 years

Remember this kid? This is him today

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1 year

lol are they just saying stick the entire social security pool into an index fund?

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1 year

JOY REID: What are "woke policies" are the Department of Defense? BYRON DONALDS: *doesn't attempt to answer question*

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9 months

@KryzivenTake2 Brother those fumbles were forced by god above I'm certain of it. They were just unreal turnovers.

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7 months

All 22 angle of the Kelce lateral/Toney offside play. Doesn't appear Toney once checks with the sideline judge on his side from this. Also amazing job still from Kelce finding him in space.

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@joseletemuniz

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5 years

Farewell, Chris Owings

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4 years

How it started: How it’s going:

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4 years

Josh Allen throwing to a receiver 20 yards away

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7 years

Danny Duffy or Stone Cold Steve Austin?

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4 years

I'm still laughing at this video being 2 hours long

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6 years

@MLB crying copyright & getting a Twitter suspended is so petty. Particularly someone like @PitchingNinja who does nothing but promote how great the game is and how amazing some pitchers are. Man, y'all need to chill. It's 2018. People are going to post GIFs. It's free promotion.

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3 years

Really can't be understated how important housing is for minor leaguers and this will go a long way

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Surprise Royals

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Coming Soon

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2 years

Royals Spend One Dollar On Anyone Other Than Ryan O'Hearn or Mondesi Challenge

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7 years

Gordon fist pump

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2 years

This is certainly one of the most embarrassing days in Royals franchise history recently

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Royals players Whit Merrifield, Andrew Benintendi, Hunter Dozier, Cam Gallagher, MJ Melendez, Brady Singer, Brad Keller, Kyle Isbel, Michael A. Taylor and Dylan Coleman will be placed on the restricted list for the four-game series in Toronto, per manager Mike Matheny.

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4 years

Alex Gordon comes off the field for the last time

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3 months

@i_zzzzzz Also pretty corny when at the end the guy turns to the audience and says "and that's why they call it the Zone of Interest"

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7 years

Not sure how I missed this Cain and the Cat GIF...

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5 years

@daynperry Anything above 74 degrees is essentially 110 degrees

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8 months

Updated version of the chart. Data now back to 2020 (removed some inactive QBs like Brady). Also included total of open throw attempts. Realized I cut off Bryce Young, who actually only had one bad throw! Good for you Bryce.

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7 years

Peter Moylan answered the bullpen phone while warming up

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5 years

Tyrann Mathieu PFF grades and rank (min. 20% of positional leader snaps) Weeks 1-9: 61.8 grade, 55th best safety Weeks 10-15: 88.3 grade, #1 safety

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3 years

*Goff when Brockers arrives*

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3 years

lmao this’ll be awkward

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2 years

Sherman gotta clean house. Particularly since the Royals have a shot at 1.1 and you can't let the current front office make that pick

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2 years

Royals have now had ex-catchers for three straight managers, so I look forward to the Sal Perez hire in 2030

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5 years

How to run out of money with an income of $500,000 a year in Kansas Chiefs gear: $40,000 Sporting gear: $8,000 Royals gear: $5 Gates BBQ: $12,000 Q39: $28,000 Hy-Vee: $22,000 One Light studio apt: $200,000 Sprint phone bill: $35,000 Boulevard beer: $60,000 QuikTrip: $94,995

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2 years

@pff_seth Not to mention QBs from 1933

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4 years

this is the worst football play in nfl history

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When Zack Hample steals a ball from a 9 year old kid and pushes down an usher

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5 years

How many times is Adalberto Mondesi going to steal a base this year?

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9 years

For the moment 30 years in the making., here's Ryan's World Series winning call

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9 years

Obviously had to GIF this. (h/t @TJFsports ) http://t.co/hjA5DxbHyk

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5 years

Let's check in on Eric Hosmer (8/$144M) vs Justin Smoak (1/$5M) since 2016... Oh

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First baseman Justin Smoak and the Milwaukee Brewers are in agreement on a one-year, $5 million contract, a source familiar with the deal tells ESPN.

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Wily Peralta, who has a 5.80 ERA/5.84 FIP and gives up a double, a single, an IBB, and a hit by pitch before recording an out, yelling at his 22yo catcher because he didn't like the sign he put down. Because the sign was the issue.

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6 years

Anyone notice Tumpane kinda looks like Gabe from The Office

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Dayton Moore with a black lives matter sign in his office

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Bubba Starling

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Explain Zach Wilson in baseball terms

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5 years

This shift the Rays put on Smoak was ridiculous

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7 years

Good guy Lorenzo Cain high fives a fan after running past first

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Which jerseys do we never want to see again? From @TimKellySports 👉

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8 years

God bless baseball

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Dyson robs a homer

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6 years

Seuly Matias homers. 100 MPH exit velocity 360 feet

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3 years

Maybe he needs an interpreter then

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Stephen A. Smith Says His Comments on Shohei Ohtani Were 'Misinterpreted' Amid Heavy Criticism for Xenophobia

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3 years

Edward Olivares has been optioned/recalled to/from Omaha/Kansas City 14 times this year (not kidding here). At ~185 miles between the two, Olivares has travelled roughly 2,600 miles, which is nearly the distance from Kansas City to the North Pole.

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Sonic Inning Grand Slams: Gallagher (2017) Cain (2013) Nunez (2004) Stairs (2004) Beltran (2002) Damon (2000) McCarty (2000)

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5 years

Brady Singer just mic dropped a comebacker

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5 years

Average exit velocity: Terrance Gore - 90.4 MPH Jorge Soler - 90.0 MPH Juan Soto - 89.7 MPH Mookie Betts - 89.7 MPH Anthony Rizzo - 89.4 MPH Manny Machado - 89.4 MPH Khris Davis - 89.1 MPH Rhys Hoskins - 88.8 MPH

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5 years

Here is every hit of Whit Merrifield's 30 game hitting streak (just the first hits). Seven of them came in his final at bat of the night.

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2 years

Every MLB hitter from the 1920s just died a second time

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Miguel Castro, Disgusting 85mph Slider. 🤮

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7 years

Bill Miller's rating on Ump Tracker. Favors the home team and pitchers heavily amongst all umpires

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1 year

@JUNlPER His team is already on it

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These psyops are just getting lazy at this point

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5 years

Before anyone yells at me look at this tweet first

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graphic design is my passion

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4 years

As of now, Sinclair's sports products are no longer available on YouTube TV Sling Dish Network FuboTV So...what is exactly the business plan here Sinclair?

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We purchase rights from Sinclair to distribute content to you. Despite our best efforts, we’ve been unable to reach an agreement with Sinclair. As a result, we will no longer offer FOX Regional Sports Networks, including YES Network, beginning February 29th.

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6 years

With the acquisition of Billy Hamilton, Royals will have the 5th fastest player (Hamilton) 9th fastest player (Mondesi) 34th fastest player (Orlando if he re-signs) 37th fastest player (Merrifield) 47th fastest player (Phillips) No other team has 2 in the top 10 (Per Statcast)

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Hunter Dozier is the Royals first player to ever hit two triples in a game as DH. He's only the 10th player in history to do it (since the DH has existed). Last done by David Ortiz in 2004

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It's pretty clear the Royals MIF next year on opening day should be Witt Jr/Lopez at SS/2B. Even if you think Lopez regresses, he's at this point more reliable/better than Mondesi and has earned the start.

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6 years

Bumping this for Moustakas' legacy, here is again every home run he had from his franchise record breaking year

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7 years

Annoying thread incoming: Video of each Mike Moustakas home run this year, starting with #1

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3 years

QB WAR vis Sports Info Solution (min. 100 pass attempts)

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