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Ben Palmer

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1 month

Watching Bill Hader lose it in a Jiminy Glick interview is my new favorite thing

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2 years

Pour one out for the Rays’ ballboy

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2 years

Adley Rutschman is a lot of things but above all else, he is a FRIEND

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

This talk of baseball games being played in empty stadiums reminded me of one of my favorite Gary Thorne moments ever

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One of the saddest stories I’ve ever read was that Sports Illustrated profile of Chris Davis amid his struggles where he talked about just sitting in his car sobbing because he couldn’t figure out what he was doing wrong

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I know people make their jokes but I'm not sure it's discussed enough how Chris Davis basically has his career taken from him cuz the league wouldn't let him take his medication for ADHD. Messed him up so bad he was struggling to get through everyday life.

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2 years

This might be one of the best slides to avoid a tag I’ve ever seen

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1 year

Straight to jail

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

2016: “Trout or Harper with the 1st pick?” 2017: “Trout or Goldschmidt with the 1st pick?” 2018: “Trout or Altuve with the 1st pick?” 2019: “Trout or Yelich with the 1st pick?” 2020: “Trout or Acuña with the 1st pick?” What never changes? Mike Trout.

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

✈️✈️✈️

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2 years

It’s Steven Wright’s birthday, and if you don’t know his work, do yourself a favor and look up some of his stuff—he’s one of the greatest comedians to ever do it

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16 days

Live shot of Ingrid Andress singing the national anthem

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

Machine Gun Kelly tried to pick up Pete Davidson ABSOLUTELY ATE IT

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

Mark Ingram running like the Rams defense said something about his mother

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Ben Palmer

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13 days

Like…damn man

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Ben Palmer

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8 months

Really moving moment from Drew Lock. Good for him

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

Oh hey, look where all of Hyun Jin Ryu's groundballs were last year

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2 years

The #BlueJays are finalizing a trade for 2-time Platinum Glove-winning 3B Matt Chapman, source confirms. Carlos Baerga was the first to report. @MLBNetwork @FAN590 @Sportsnet

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1 year

This is too good James McCann hits a double, so the Orioles dugout puts water in their mouths waiting for him to do the sprinkler, but then it's challenged, so they just keep holding water in their mouths waiting for a call And then McCann forgets to do the sprinkler lol

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Ben Palmer

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11 months

After 10 innings, Shintaro Fujinami is out and this man's moment has finally come

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6 years

Blake Treinen is filthy, a work of art in three movements

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5 years

Baseball fan attends MLB game with his wife and two kids: - Pays $80 for four tickets in upper deck - Pays $15 to park - Pays $60 for food for everyone - Has spent ~$155 to attend this baseball game Also baseball fan(?): "BASEBALL IS TOO LONG LET'S HURRY THIS UP I WANNA LEAVE"

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

The drop on Ross Stripling's knuckle curve is ridiculous

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4 years

I don’t know if I could love this more. Let the Rays win everything

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11 months

Austin Hays hauling the Gatorade bucket out, dumping it, then dropping it and screaming is my favorite

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2 years

*laughs in oriole bird*

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4 years

Alex Verdugo’s just out here, trying his best

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8 months

Truly astounded but what a massive douchebag John Angelos is

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

What a catch from Miles Boykin

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

Kirby Yates' splitter oh my

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

hey you guys know what goes great with the coronavirus? lime disease

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

The Rays’ ballboy has redeemed himself!

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

Jose Altuve gets the silent treatment in the dugout after a home run and decides to have some fun. He's the best

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Ben Palmer

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10 months

Man did @kevinnbrown nail this call. It’s beautiful 🥹

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3 years

@sung_minkim “Nelson point at a tv” “Why?” “Money, just do it”

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3 years

“Son we found some of the marijuana in your bedroom”

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4 years

I can’t get over how Peter Fairbanks always looks like he’s the only person who sees there’s a ghost in the room and is trying to play it cool

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

The bullpen running out to join a fight will never not be funny to me

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

The Rays’ ballboy has redeemed himself!

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

@realDonaldTrump no it's the illegal stuff

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4 years

“I’m a fantasy sports writer” - sounds fake - you must be poor - nerd alert lmao “I help people with their fantasy” - mysterious - sounds sexy - maybe you wear fancy colognes

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Ben Palmer

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1 year

Mike Clevinger looks like if a vape pen made a wish upon a star to become a real boy

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump Are you really that desperate for affection?

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1 year

cc: @fuckedupfoods

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

This is art

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

In memoriam of the bats Chris Davis destroyed during his career

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

Hey everyone! I’m gonna be on SportsCenter tonight! Just taped a segment talking about my article on the rise in HBPs over the years, and it should air around 6ish ET tonight So check it out!

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

Carlos Gomez whiffing/falling down, a thread

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

101 MPH with that kind of movement? Good god Jordan Hicks

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

Also doing this reminded me just how good Yoshihisa Hirano's splitter is: - 47.7% chase rate - 21% SwStr rate - .237 wOBA against - .076 ISO against

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

Six years ago today was one of the most insane endings to an NFL playoff game that I’ve ever seen

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

We were fools to let Kmart go out of business when they gifted us with the greatest commercial of all time

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Ben Palmer

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4 months

Gunnar Henderson so far this game: - 106.6 MPH home run - 105 MPH lineout - 110 MPH single - 111.8 MPH triple

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

Brett Phillips pretended to charge the mound and started cracking up God I love this man

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Ben Palmer

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7 years

@fivefifths "This isn't America!" said people who apparently have never read a history book

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

Deivi Garcia curveball grip for anyone interested

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Ben Palmer

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1 year

Looks like Grayson is definitely doing this, here’s a visual—last start against the Angels vs. today

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Looks like Grayson is holding his hands lower out of the stretch when he comes set. Certainly making some adjustments between starts.

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

Cade Povich has two very legit breaking pitches in his slider and curveball (both below) So far this year in high-A, he’s sporting a 3.40 FIP and a 31.8% strikeout rate in 16 starts. Looks like a nice grab by the Orioles

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

Tyler Skaggs was, without a doubt, a favorite of mine to watch, and he had one of the prettiest curveballs around. He will absolutely be missed, RIP

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

Don’t worry Joey, no one saw

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

I’ve watched this slide so many times and I don’t know when I’ll stop

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

Friendly reminder that Ramón Urías, who just hit this 105 MPH dinger, has been hitting .300/.352/.560 over the past two weeks, owns the 20th best hard-hit rate in baseball, and is available in over 95% of ESPN and Yahoo leagues

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

Carlos Carrasco's got a real pretty changeup

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1 year

@charles_gaba one of the greatest sketches SNL has ever done

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6 years

I know we're all talking about Jake Arrieta right now (as we should), but can we take a moment to appreciate this beautiful curveball German Marquez threw earlier today?

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Ben Palmer

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11 months

What’s really wild is at no point was this pitch ever a strike. It didn’t start in the zone and dart out or vice versa - it started way inside and finished low. Crazy call to miss

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11 months

wtf

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

Man, Aaron Sanchez looked awesome tonight. I wonder how the guy he got traded for is doing?

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

I’d rather lose my fantasy baseball league because I won’t have Bauer on my team than win it because I do

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

Did you want to see all eight of Josh Hader's strikeouts from his historic night last night in one GIF? Of course you did, because it's beautiful

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

Oh my god this is perfect

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6 years

@benjpalmer @dmengden15 Though gifs of Mengden are better done as 1930s film reel versions (audio).

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Ben Palmer

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1 year

It's only two innings so far but worth noting: Eury Perez is averaging 2,644 RPMs on his fastball so far That's the same average spin rate Emmanuel Clase has on his fastball, and that leads the league

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

I think I speak for everyone on baseball twitter when I say that @PitchingNinja is an absolute gift of a human being

Jared Diamond

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5 years

This is the story of Nathan Patterson, the viral sensation who’s now a baseball prospect. It’s also the story of @pitchingninja —a man who has dedicated himself to making sure nobody like Patterson falls through the cracks ever again.

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

5 best teams in MLB by FIP: 1. Giants (2.74) 2. Dodgers (2.76) 3. Mets (2.91) **4. Orioles (3.00)** 5. Yankees (3.08)

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

Christian Yelich just hit an inside the park home run!

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

I searched “Orioles suit” and I found this and I guess I’m not going to sleep anytime soon now

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Ben Palmer

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9 months

A demon was just exorcised from Max Scherzer

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

I have a confession: I'm in love with Jakob Junis' slider

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

This is probably the biggest research piece I've done in a while, and the results were super interesting. The conventional wisdom saying you shouldn't throw a breaking ball high or on your first pitch doesn't seem to be true Check it out on @PitcherList

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Ben Palmer

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11 months

Man, too bad this was foul cause that was a hell of a play by Gunnar

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

Kazuhisa Makita's funky submarine delivery in slow motion

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

All of the players walking onto the court for this year’s NCAA Tournament

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Ben Palmer

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1 year

More on Fujinami for any O’s fans who aren’t familiar: He primarily goes with a fastball/splitter combo, working in a cutter and slider sometimes too Fastball averages 98 MPH, splitter (below) is pretty nasty as well

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

Pitchers with the biggest gaps between their ERA and FIP so far: 1. Tyler Mahle (6.45 ERA/2.39 FIP) 2. Kyle Freeland (6.16 ERA/4.07 FIP) 3. Marcus Stroman (6.98 ERA/4.93 FIP) 4. Kevin Gausman (2.19 ERA/0.55 FIP) 5. Tarik Skubal (3.05 ERA/1.57 FIP)

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

When you see that Trevor Richards had a 4.42 ERA, 4.05 FIP, and 1.39 WHIP, it's easy to overlook him, but this dude had a FILTHY changeup last year: 52.3% chase rate 24.2% whiff rate 35.8% strikeout rate .227 wOBA against 14.7 pVAL That's an elite pitch

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

My point: the only people who care about how long baseball games are are the umpires, the broadcasters, the sportswriters, and the stadium staff. If I'm paying all this money to attend a baseball game, I'd like to get my money's worth

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

Max Scherzer is the greatest human

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6 years

Aaron Nola's curveball gives me life

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Ben Palmer

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6 years

Tanner Roark with a gorgeous two-seamer

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2 years

Every game with John Smoltz in the booth

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3 years

Rob Refsnyder just got sniped

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

So the Marlins pick, Max Meyer, has a pretty sick slider

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

This is one of the best changeups in baseball and it’s so rarely talked about. So far this year: - 51.4% chase rate - 41% zone rate - 17% SwStr rate - .277 wOBA against

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5 years

Trevor Richards, Nasty 84mph Changeup (release/slow). 😨

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Ben Palmer

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4 years

My wife said she’s mad at me because I never buy her flowers but, in my defense, I didn’t even know she sold flowers

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

Over the past two weeks, Christian Walker is slashing .314/.415/.486 and on the season, his Statcast profile looks like this. And he's widely available in just about every format. So go pick him up

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

@SortaBad I'm more concerned about how much people in Tennessee want Kevin James porn

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

Last year, Trivino's cutter was the second-best in baseball when ranked by pVAL, behind Corey Kluber () It was also a money pitch, with a 46.8% chase rate, 45.4% zone rate, and a 21.2% SwStr rate. It's absolutely filthy

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Rob Friedman

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5 years

Lou Trivino, Nasty 92mph Cutter. 🤢✂️

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Ben Palmer

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11 months

100 MPH absolute CHEDDAR from Fuji

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Ben Palmer

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5 years

Ever wonder what the most-chased pitch in baseball is? For the first half of this season, it's been Hyun-Jin Ryu's changeup, with a filthy 57.9% chase rate. It's also got an equally awesome 18.9% SwStr rate, and its 15.6 pVAL is tied for sixth-highest in baseball

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Ben Palmer

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3 years

One time I was in a job interview and the interviewer asked me if I could perform under pressure. I said no, but I could do Bohemian Rhapsody if you want

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Ben Palmer

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2 years

Some top notch pitch framing from Adley there