Dodgers: $304,389,785

Brewers: $83,475,739

White Sox: $67,869,549

Rays: $65,270,801

Guardians: $56,743,012

Attendance for their two ALDS games against Yankees:

40,542 (Game 1)

40,226 (Game 2)

Attendance for their two ALCS games so far against Cleveland:

35,361 (Game 1)

32,125 (Game 2)

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Following a 14-11 win over the Kansas City Royals tonight, the Chicago White Sox are 81-76 on the season and cannot finish worse than 81-81. This is the first time since 2022 that Chicago will miss out on a losing season.

Nationals: .279/.388/.512, .900 OPS (139 OPS+), 922 H, 184 HR, 75 SB (70.8 SB%), 3957 PA, 6 DRS, 27.3 oWAR, -2.7 dWAR, 27.7 WAR

Phillies: .280/.385/.525, .909 OPS (145 OPS+), 942 H, 194 HR, 82 SB (78.1 SB%), 3993 PA, 5 DRS, 27.6 oWAR, -4.7 dWAR, 27.7 WAR

Yes, literally the same WAR. His fWAR is 28.6 WSH, 28.2 PHI.

He's somehow improved as a hitter in Philly, racking up more doubles and HR in exchange for a slightly worse (but still terrific) BB/K ratio.

He's had to change positions from RF to 1B due to injury, negatively impacting his dWAR. Unfortunately his defense at 1B seems to be declining, so his final fielding numbers may not look great.

It's all moot though. At age 33, Harper sits at 1864 hits, 378 HR, and 55.4 bWAR. One of the most hyped prospects in history is gliding to Cooperstown. He may not have been as transcendent as the 2015 MVP season suggested (as an aside, how many HOF hitters peaked at age 22?), but his consistent excellence has kept him near the top of the game.

All figures from his BBRef page: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harpebr03.shtml

3 of the 4 teams that just finished the WC had lower payrolls than the teams they beat.

3 of the 4 teams that got a bye have lower payrolls than the teams they are about to play.

EDIT: Overestimated that people would be able to work from the team colors, or who would have seen the original graphic on the mlb.com homepage. My error; wasn't trying to be obtuse.

just in case anyone else acquired a corn cob while at the game... this is absolutely not sweet corn. dry it out and use it as fall decoration!

(it may or may not have been from the corn you walk through to get to the field. nope not at all)

From @JayCuda

With ABS right around the corner, I wanted to take a look back at nearly 20 years of pitch tracking and umpire evaluation to see just how much the strike zone has changed. The blue zone represents the rulebook zone that umpires were being evaluated on, while the pink shape is the average called zone. Year over year, umpires have gotten more accurate and more consistent with calling the rulebook strike zone.

The horizontal positions have been adjusted so that pitches on the left are inside to the batter and pitches on the right are outside to the batter.

Full album of heatmaps here

The call was right, I have no idea why this is an argument. Rule 5 is the relevant one but I included all of them anyways.