Manager ejections have long been a fascination of mine. There are those who think that a manager needs to have that fire. That getting ejected is going to light a fire under the players’ asses and is going to spur them on to victory. Go Lou Piniella on them. Go…

Okay! So for the 5 people that read this, I submitted my dissertation which means the waiting game starts. In the meantime, I can get back to looking at baseball. Short post for today. I was of the opinion that the Mariners were getting hosed by umpires so I used…

My wife and I were at a conference in Austin once and, coincidentally, the Mariners were in Houston. This was the brief, amazing period when the Mariners were first in the AL West right before the rest of season decline. I packed my Seager jersey, my wife her Paxton jersey…

I remember when I was assistant coach on a 15U travel team in Québec, the organization’s head coach said “Of course we swing on 3–0. But it depends when.” I called for a green-light on a 3–0 count and then got shouted down by the coach — I still don’t…

I noticed that last week that Jim Albert wrote a piece which included some incredible heatmaps that plot where pitchers spot pitches based on the pitch-count. Albert’s CalledStrike package reduces the options to fastball and non-fastball (so, off-speed) and doesn’t yet allow for a look at individual off-speed pitches. …

KYLE. LEWIS. The Seattle Mariners love their Kyles, be it Kyle Lewis, Kyle Seager, or, former M, Austin Kyle Nola. Kyle Lewis, Jerry Dipoto’s first draft pick as GM, has finally paid dividends for a blue-chip prospect who fought back from a freakish knee injury that set back his development. After a surprising start out of the gate as a September call up in 2019, Lewis’ formal 2020 rookie season culminated in the AL Rookie of the Year Award. …