Zach Crizer
Baseball Writer at Freelance
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1 week ago |
dmagazine.com | Zach Crizer |Mike Piellucci
Look, everyone does it. You meet someone, you get an idea of them, and a full portrait blooms from a mere pinprick of actual data. Even worse, maybe you had already heard about them. You came in with a notion and sought confirmation instead of new information. Then you introduce yourself, maybe at a wedding. Turns out you’ve met them before. You’d say you know them now, but you really don’t. You see them again, in a different setting, and whoa, you had it all wrong. You start over.
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2 weeks ago |
bandwagon.substack.com | Hannah Keyser |Zach Crizer
Over the past few days, Zach and I have been taking turns texting each other something like “Twins??” periodically. By which we mean: Have you seen that the Twins are winning again? Hey, it’s Hannah and over the first half of May, the Minnesota Twins went from seven games under .500 to six games over .500 by rattling off 13 wins in a row. This is not totally unexpected — before Opening Day FanGraphs projected them to be an 84-win team that would probably make the postseason.
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3 weeks ago |
theanalyst.com | Zach Crizer
It’sRivalry Weekend in MLB,and none of the other star players in the Subway Series comparelike Yankees slugger Aaron Judge to the greatest hitters inbaseball history. The beauty (or misery) of rivalries traces back to pencil markson a door frame. Siblings track their height against their original rivals. Comparison is the point, at the start. Eventually, it becomesunavoidable.
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3 weeks ago |
bandwagon.substack.com | Hannah Keyser |Zach Crizer
Where do you think you’ll be in 10 years? Hey, it’s Zach, and I don’t think I’ll be watching Rich Hill pitch, but I’ve learned not to be too sure. Now 45 years young, Hill signed a minor-league deal with the Royals on Tuesday. We’re 20 years on from Hill’s major-league debut, but more impressively, 10 years on from his reemergence as a dominant, curveball-slinging novelty act.
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3 weeks ago |
dmagazine.com | Zach Crizer |Mike Piellucci
The Rangers pulled the plug on hitting coach—sorry, offensive coordinator—Donnie Ecker after their game on May 4. The firing was part of a wave of moves that included jettisoning Leody Taveras and temporarily demoting Jake Burger as Chris Young looked to jolt an offense that hasn’t experienced the anticipated bounceback toward its 2023 heights. Former major leaguer Bret Boone, most recently the host of an eponymous podcast, was tapped as the replacement for the rest of 2025.
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Relevant once again: What Orioles fans see in their dreadful season. (spoiler: Brandon Hyde wasn’t the main issue coming up) https://t.co/LesWFG6082 https://t.co/mIh4Pfo0tM
RT @zcrizer: Like numbers in the trillions, blue whales or distances in space, Aaron Judge's bat can only be accurately explained via compa…
Like numbers in the trillions, blue whales or distances in space, Aaron Judge's bat can only be accurately explained via comparison. So, ahead of the Yankees and Mets meeting tonight, I lined up some past and present greats at @OptaAnalystUS. https://t.co/1GzSn2Tcd2
