Jayson Stark
Senior Baseball Writer at The Athletic
Baseball writer at @TheAthleticMLB. Starkville pod. MLB Net. Winner of 2019 BBWAA Career Excellence Award. Launched hot dogs with the Phanatic. Now on Blue Sky
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Jayson Stark
The people have spoken. Great to hear from you. Now I get to speak. A week and a half ago, I threw out the first pitch in our MLB All-Quarter Century Team project. I did that by presenting my (cough, cough) inarguable selections for who belongs on this team - our collection of the best players at every position since the 2000 season. About 9 billion reader comments later, I was starting to get the impression that you didn't feel like my picks ended this debate.
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1 week ago |
miamiherald.com | Ken Rosenthal |Jayson Stark
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Corbin Burnes recently learned something about baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike System that he found worrisome. “There is a margin for error that I think fans don’t realize, that a lot of players didn’t realize,” he said. So what makes that worrisome, for Burnes and other players? When MLB tested a challenge system for pitch location this spring, players and fans watched the animations on the scoreboard and assumed the Automated Ball-Strike System was fully accurate.
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Jayson Stark
Share Editor’s note: This is a bonus Weird & Wild. To read this week’s main W&W column, go here.Is “big-league manager” a good job?It’s a hard job. It’s an exclusive job. (There are only 30 positions.) And “universally beloved” is not a description you’re likely to hear about anyone doing that job, no matter how good they are at it. So why do we ask this question? That’s why.Three managers fired by May 16! That’s one trend.Three managers fired in 10 days — by May 16! Is that a second trend?
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jayson Stark
Is "big-league manager" a good job? It's a hard job. It's an exclusive job. (There are only 30 positions.) And "universally beloved" is not a description you're likely to hear about anyone doing that job, no matter how good they are at it. So why do we ask this question? That's why. That's not usually the sort of question we ask here at Weird and Wild World HQ.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jayson Stark
Baseball. It's done it again. Want to hear what you missed since the last edition of this column? Well, there was the Weirdest and Wildest walk-off ever, complete with a guy running off the bench and slamming into the dude about to score the winning run. ... There was another walk-off in a game on Monday by a hitter who never set foot in the batter's box that day. ... And there was a team that fell behind, 7-0, 14-0, and 21-0 in the same game and it was not wearing shoulder pads.
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RT @TheAthleticMLB: Rosenthal: Rob Manfred’s decision to reinstate Pete Rose raises questions about what’s next https://t.co/Wi3KHeBxf0
New column: Rob Manfred just opened the doors of Cooperstown to Pete Rose. Who knows who else might be knocking on those doors now https://t.co/gPEuVtRMgs
Congratulations, Scott. Your book is fantastic.
Publication day today! Thanks @jaysonst https://t.co/yJvLC5WE4T
