I’d like to wish you a better 2023 than 2022. There wasn’t a lot going on this weekend, and though I’d hoped to receive a large pile of data sets of pitches from 2009 to 2021, my database guru is still working on them and who am I to add to an already cumbersome task.

When its ready will know a lot more if some teams are getting more than their just desserts on umpire strike calls, but until then it’s just hurry up and wait.

Another Japanese star has reportedly committed to bringing the World Baseball Classic trophy back to Japan for the first time since 2009. Since I’ve more or less been putting player moves on the back burner, I’ll start throwing some in today.