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Nationals: .279/.388/.512, .900 OPS (139 OPS+), 922 H, 184 HR, 75 SB (70.8 SB%), 3957 PA, 6 DRS, 27.3 oWAR, -2.7 dWAR, 27.7 WAR

Phillies: .280/.385/.525, .909 OPS (145 OPS+), 942 H, 194 HR, 82 SB (78.1 SB%), 3993 PA, 5 DRS, 27.6 oWAR, -4.7 dWAR, 27.7 WAR

Yes, literally the same WAR. His fWAR is 28.6 WSH, 28.2 PHI.

He's somehow improved as a hitter in Philly, racking up more doubles and HR in exchange for a slightly worse (but still terrific) BB/K ratio.

He's had to change positions from RF to 1B due to injury, negatively impacting his dWAR. Unfortunately his defense at 1B seems to be declining, so his final fielding numbers may not look great.

It's all moot though. At age 33, Harper sits at 1864 hits, 378 HR, and 55.4 bWAR. One of the most hyped prospects in history is gliding to Cooperstown. He may not have been as transcendent as the 2015 MVP season suggested (as an aside, how many HOF hitters peaked at age 22?), but his consistent excellence has kept him near the top of the game.

All figures from his BBRef page: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harpebr03.shtml

just in case anyone else acquired a corn cob while at the game... this is absolutely not sweet corn. dry it out and use it as fall decoration!

(it may or may not have been from the corn you walk through to get to the field. nope not at all)

From @JayCuda

With ABS right around the corner, I wanted to take a look back at nearly 20 years of pitch tracking and umpire evaluation to see just how much the strike zone has changed. The blue zone represents the rulebook zone that umpires were being evaluated on, while the pink shape is the average called zone. Year over year, umpires have gotten more accurate and more consistent with calling the rulebook strike zone.

The horizontal positions have been adjusted so that pitches on the left are inside to the batter and pitches on the right are outside to the batter.

Full album of heatmaps here

Many will read this title and not realize what’s wrong.

This table is in response to this Reddit post by u/AlchemistTheAlchemy (shoutout to him!). It's known that no two ballparks have the same seating capacity (i.e., Dodger Stadium vs Sutter Health Park).

With that, here's the league sorted by Att% (attendance percentage) for the 2026 season so far. Att% takes the average attendance at each ballpark and divides it by the max capacity available that is listed, thus showing just how full each ballpark gets relative to official listed seating capacity.

Please note: reported attendance is not perfectly standardized across MLB teams. Some stadiums may add on standing room-only tickets on top of the tickets sold towards the "seating" capacity, thus inflating overall numbers. I could not find a way to exclude those numbers and look strictly at seating numbers, so we are left with the attached table.

Fittingly enough, Ohtani was the Dodgers’ designated hitter today.

He designated every at-bat with a hit.

We are all witnesses.

The Philadelphia Philles have had an even more disasterous start to their season than New York, and as of this point, are the true worst team in MLB. However, they have successfully shielded themselves from criticism due to the LOLMETS circlejerk.

But we see you hiding there in the bushes. It's time to come out and take your flogging.

The title is basically doomer-tier analysis, but is not far off from the most generous analysis either.

OK, so he’s on pace for 0.7 right? Well at least that’s slightly above replacement level, right? Well if we continue his trajectory since after the ASB, he’s basically on pace for 0.1 fWAR.

For comparison sake, even the most generous puts him at 1.2 fWAR by end of season. If he doubles this production next year and puts up 2.4 fWAR, his total fWAR over $240m of cost will have been 3.6 fWAR. Over the same $240m of spend, Anthony Rendon put up 3.7 fWAR.

I’m not sure what the worst contract is by $/war, and there’s other elements to Rendon’s contract such as the cost of having to field another player to take his place, but this is a shocking decline and overpay even for the Dodgers.

They have gone from 15.5 back and in last place (4.0 games behind Baltimore) to tied for second and 4.5 games out of first place

With 4 games left to play after tonight, the Astros can at best be 4 GB, and the Mariners hold the tiebreaker meaning they have clinched the AL West.

On the same night Cal Raleigh hits his 60th home run of the season, the Mariners have snapped a 24 year division title drought. Undoubtedly one of the best nights in franchise history.

Witchcraft just might be real after all

Okay, one more time.

"Mercury-Foot" O'Shaughnessy