14 thoughts on 14 straight Red Sox wins
This is what memorable summers are made of.
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Half and half
Can hitters really change?
Is this a picture of a good pitcher?
What those pitch movement charts can mean to you
What’s in a baseball season?
Scraps.
The Faces of Baseball
All-Star voting, Ernie Clement and Shohei Ohtani
Selling / Sunset
Which MLB teams need to abandon expectations? Plus: A vibes wizard and a disgraceful Pride Night display.
Emotional labor
What attention do fans owe to baseball's early salary cap campaigning?
The scoreless innings record is in play
Cristopher Sánchez and the rare modern pursuit of a hallowed baseball record
Catch them if you can
Fast starts, catchers, and unknowns
Munetaka Murakami is a certain type of slugger
A lot of outcomes could be true.
The Three-Fastball Solution
Is this Pitch Design 3.0? Plus, Coaches4Hire.
Tweeted Rivalry
On Cam Schlittler and the sour side of fan interaction. Plus: The Reds are the anti-Mets.
April will make fools of us all
Every day has felt like April Fools’ Day for a good long while. Anything could be “real” in the sense that it’s not a prank, a lie that vanishes when the jig is up. “Real” as in a thing that’s actually happening, even if it skipped past separation
What would you call this pitch?
Let's name Tatsuya Imai's "slider" something that makes sense for fans.
The Zone of Uncertainty
Where are MLB's players and umpires confident in the ABS system's zone? And where is there room for growth?
DeLauter and the DeLorean
Challenging the reality of the past. ABS and MLB's opening weekend
One reason to bandwagon every MLB team in 2026
With help from a roster of notable baseball fans
The stories we’ll tell ourselves about the 2026 MLB season
Six theories of how to become a bandwagon team
Import and export
The World Baseball Classic as a product and a dream.
Preboarding, Part 2: What you might call breakout players
Plus: 5 World Baseball Classic battles of note
Bandwagon Preboarding: Picking MLB players to make the leap in 2026
Hey, hope everyone has been enjoying early World Baseball Classic action. We’ll get to some fun stuff from that in the bits and bobs. First, though, we’re kicking into full preview mode this week at Bandwagon HQ. Today I’ve got Part 1 of what I’m calling
Keep Slides Weird
Somewhere around the summer of 2023, I developed a nagging feeling that the slides in Major League Baseball games were better. By better, I didn’t mean cleaner or more fundamentally sound, but I recognize that was the most obvious way to understand the hypothesis. And by that reading, it
An early spring training study guide
Good morning from the middle of a blizzard, it’s going to feel especially notable that baseball is on TV today. As promised in last week’s essay on the rise of game-calling from the dugout, I’ve got bonus bits and bobs for you today, with a full
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The call is coming from inside the dugout
On a potentially revolutionary strategy shift. Plus: An announcement about the newsletter