From Jackson Stone:
The Yankees can win games in a multitude of ways, and during the first three contests in Kansas City they’ve deployed them all on the Royals.
Starting pitching? Check. Defense? Check. Hitting for contact and power? Check. The Yankees have been relentless, pressuring the Royals out of the gate in each game, the latest resulting in an 11-5 win on Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium.
New York is now 30-9 since May 1, and it can secure the four-game sweep Thursday after outscoring the Royals 25-8 so far in this set.
This was another great win, as the Yankees essentially took the game out of the Royals’ hands in the first inning, dropping a six spot on the home team.
Cody Poteet was excellent, but the bullpen struggled. You could argue that the bullpen was clearly pitching to the scoreboard, but it was still not great. Rizzo didn’t help with some awful defense. He had a decent night at the plate, though. A hit, and some loud outs. DJ LeMahieu was shitty, though.
Stanton had another BLAST, and the reconfigured lineup (with Stanton and Verdugo swapping places with a lefty going for the Royals after an opener) did well. Back-to-back games the Yankees catchers hit three-run home runs. Too funny.
Poteet pitched well enough that I had to give him the featured image, but boy, he sure doesn’t react much, huh? I think this is either Cody Poteet thrilled or really angry.
The very definition of “without missing a beat.” Poteet’s line is indistinguishable from every Yankee pitcher’s line, day in and day out, except Gil. Schmidt, when he was here had good strikeout numbers. It’s almost like it doesn’t matter who they plug into that spot.
edoard Julien! acquire now-sies!
There was some big series of essays making the rounds lately about AI from a researcher/alignment guy who’d worked at OpenAI and folks, lemmetellya, if you haven’t worked yourself up into a fine lather of existential dread lately, I highly recommend it. Real admiration for the Maj. Kong yolo ethos of our dumbest smart people.
Most transparent tech grift since NFTs, this time with job-destroying power!
The devotees spew a lot of piffle but I’m getting a little tinfoil hatty about some of the actual and rumored shit tech companies are up to wrt massive investments in energy and long-term contracts with electricity providers to better power fuck-you sized data centers.
Tinfoil Hattie is my new drag name
Link?
Geez WP I thought you’d take my word for it
NO!! I NEED TO SEE THIS WITH MY OWN TWO EYES!!!
There are so many smart idiots in positions beyond their non-primary abilities. It’s a real problem.
If you want an interesting interactive demo of some of the short comings of LLM you can take a whack at this: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
sic is post modern all of a sudden-like
That’s why I insist on the integrity of being a regular idiot-idiot in positions beyond by primary abilities.
WP, the one that was making the rounds was at situational-awareness.ai.
Excellent, thanks Sic.
I’ve been having an ongoing discussion with a specialist in the phliosophy of internet security, lots of AI issues arise.
what if 8 AIs took part in an OOTP league?
id still win
that’s actually really interesting. we each randomly get a team, and let OOTP cashman take over
What’s all this talk about three toed sloths?
Cronin, there’s a nice story about Tonkin: https://www.mlb.com/news/michael-tonkin-thriving-with-yankees?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share
These fringe guys who aren’t baseball-young hanging around as their kids grow up and their wives deal with everything are really something. Nice when they succeed
aren’t you non-baseball old?
+bwehehehe
It’s fascinating to see them try to deflect from the Blake praise and say, “No, Tonkin made the change himself.” Suuuuuure he did. It just didn’t occur to him while he was sucking at three different MLB stops this season until he got here. But no, it was definitely all his idea.
That was the most surprising part. I guess it makes sense to credit the player whenever possible, it’s a better sales pitch than “we will take credit for your improvements”
Also, this would take work I’m not willing to do, but I wonder if Rodon’s success so far is down to changes Blake helped with
I think Blake works best with guys who are willing to be moldable. I don’t think Rodon strikes me as a moldable guy. That’s why it seems like his biggest successes are with guys who have nothing left to lose, so they’ll just do anything Blake says. It makes the guys who fail here, like Dennis Santana, seem so unusual. Like, how did that guy not work it out?
Y2Y changes on Savant suggest the biggest difference this year is he’s throwing the change more and getting swings and misses on it (52.9 Whiff% vs. 42.1% last year). It has more drop on it than it did last year, more in line with his CWS years. Though the slider seems to be getting worse (still above average but 6.6 inches of break compared to 7-8 the previous few years.)
He also introduced a cutter that hasn’t been very good (.710 xSLG).
Fewer walks, fewer barrels seems to be the sauce this year.
idk Brian, mechanics, which includes finger feel, would seem to be the biggest asset(s) for Blake. yes, if the player yearns for a Rothschild type that’d pose…limiting to say the least, but I think that while Blake has worked wonders with reclamation types, give him a kopech-type and, I believe, we’d redefine the word superlative.
also, stupid thread trees
Stanton homered last night, so of course he sits today.
bah, it’s the friggin royals
It’s crazy because it’s such a mind-numbingly idiotic pattern.
also, Thorpey had a good start. ::pours one out for my homey
I was impressed. It was just the Mariners, but yeah, it was still impressive. That White Sox team is collecting some nice prospects, and I bet they’ll get even more for Crochett and Robert. They might be pretty good in a couple of years.
bring back Thorpe!
2pm game
thank God for the braves
judge must’ve reaggravated his rib fracture(s), again