ANNOUNCEMENTS
There will be no live Mayday! later today, but stay tuned for an exciting announcement about the future of the show.
Our next BONUS video for paid subscribers will be live soon. I interview my former teammate and current Mets reliever Robert Stock about his new pitching model and all things pitching analytics.
I developed something new… Percentile! Can you guess the player based on the advanced metrics provided in this Wordle-style game? Try it out here!
New merch is live! Want to throw cheese? Well, you only need to LET IT EAT!
NEW STUFF
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Mayday! the Podcast
Jose Fernandez makes history in his MLB debut
A tough day for umpires
ABS strategies for specific umpires
And more!
Early reactions to ABS
Best rookie performances
Bo Bichette’s slow start
And more!
Ranking the top 10 rotations!
Listen to all the new episodes here!
📺 WATCH 📺
Major League Baseball has a new partnership and NO... it's not sports betting. It's likely worse... (16 mins)
The ABS is adding a lot to the game right now, but should players be scouting the umpires to prepare? I think so. Let me explain... (21 mins)
It's hard to be an MLB umpire, especially right now. Also, prospects are getting paid, pitchers are dominating, and a rookie got a scare. Let's jump into the news! (13 mins)
The rookie phenoms have come out swinging, a veteran stumbles out of the gate in Flushing, and the ABS shows us that one umpire is exactly who we thought he was. Let’s jump right in... (31 mins)
The regular season is here, so it’s time to make our extremely well researched and very likely to happen predictions for the 2026 MLB season. Let's run it... (15 mins)
📝READ📝
My producer, David Korn, wrote about Dave Roberts’ Opening Day comments about this being his best Dodgers team yet.
My writer, Henry Neiman, wrote about the Mariners giving their top prospect, Colt Emerson, a new extension.
Henry also reacted to the Mariners Opening Day loss.
STAT OF THE WEEK - Sweet Spot
Colloquially, a player who hits the ball solidly is said to have gotten the “sweet spot” of the bat on the ball. The sweet spot classification quantifies that as a batted-ball event with a launch angle ranging from 8 to 32 degrees.
A player’s sweet spot percentage -- or how often he produces a batted-ball event in the launch angle sweet-spot zone of 8-32 degrees -- is presented on Statcast leaderboards under LA SwSp%.
Sweet spot percentage can be used in concert with hard-hit rate -- the percentage of a player’s batted balls that have an exit velocity of 95 mph or higher. (via MLB)
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Sunday Sliders with Trevor and Dani Wexelman on MLB Network Radio, SiriusXM channel 89 and on the SiriusXM app - Sundays at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT