The cold certainly tests your commitment to taking a walk outside every day, no matter what.
Matthew Boyd, in addition to announcing his spot on Team USA, talked on Foul Territory about what happened in Game One of the NLDS, and how, from his perspective, it had nothing to do with pitching on short rest or anything like that:Matthew Boyd says his rough outing in Game 1 of the NLDS had nothing to do with short rest."They [the Brewers] just got me." pic.twitter.com/7EBaEbvaCp
— Foul Territory (@FoulTerritoryTV) December 3, 2025 I’m not sure Boyd would say anything differently anyway, but he is pretty emphatic that he felt great and felt ready. He’s not wrong that it looks totally different if a couple batted balls are a few feet this way or that way, and we know about that level of randomness that’s baked into the game. Those balls were scorched, though, and they weren’t located particularly well, which was mostly the issue for Boyd when he wasn’t getting results in the second half. That is to say, from where I sat, although we didn’t see much velocity fall-off for Boyd, it definitely did feel like Boyd’s pristine command kinda trailed off as the year went on (which can also be a sign of physical fatigue). It didn’t lead to a ton more walks (that’s a control issue, rather than command), but it did reduce his ability to get chase, it cut his strikeouts, and his hard contact kept on climbing: None of this should be taken as a criticism of Boyd’s season, which was fantastic overall. Nor of the Cubs’ and Boyd’s efforts to ensure that he DID still have some gas late in the year, as he blew way past the innings totals he’d put up over the last five+ seasons. I think everyone involved did they best they could, and most of the time it worked. But the body has its limits, and I just think we started to see that in August and September with Boyd. The hope going into 2026, even at age 35, would be that Boyd and the Cubs can build a little on the systems they put in place to keep him as fresh as possible all year. And that Boyd, having thrown almost 190 innings in 2025, would be all the more physically ready to go 150+ in 2026. Netflix buying Warner Brothers – which, by the way, could take a year or more to actually go through – seems like one of those things that’ll strike us as a consumer benefit for about five minutes, and then we look back later and see that it led to fewer productions, less fun, and more cost. We always knew consolidation was coming eventually. Something like the reinvention of cable. But this is one example where I have a hard time seeing it wind up being a good thing longer-term, and it immediately makes me wonder if I need to take a minute to re-think what the longer-term implications will be of MLB consolidating its national rights over the next few years and then trying to package them to streamers like Netflix (to whom MLB sold some national rights in this most recent round of negotiations). I’d always thought about the convenience and accessibility aspect – all games in one place with no blackouts, for example, sounds like an obviously good thing – but I suppose I haven’t given as much thought to what the impact could be on prices, given the ultimate lack of consumer choice. In a weird and perverse way, it could wind up a situation where baseball fans have to pay for a whole lot of stuff they don’t want (an overstuffed streamer), just to have access to the one team they care about most. You know, kinda like … bundled cable packages? Remember how that was the old business model, which was far from fan-friendly? If you wanted Regional Team Channel X, you had to have a $100+ monthly cable package, full of channels you didn’t care about at all? Remember how people started cutting the cord precisely to get away from things like that? Oh, also, just to give this thing another baseball gloss so as to justify me spending three bullets on an entertainment story: I am a nerd for this stuff, so I’ve been following the possible sale process for a very long time now. The bidding heating up and then getting resolved overnight with a shocking announcement reminds me EXACTLY of so many Winter Meetings over the years, where you’re following some free agent process, and then boom, overnight, the news breaks with some team swooping in and going over the top with a crazy offer to get a deal done. And, hey, the Winter Meetings start on Monday, so we probably will see that happen for some team with some player! MLBPA chief Tony Clark spoke with USA Today about the upcoming Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations, though I’m not sure he gave anything too interesting away. And that is probably the most interesting thing: you’d hope the sides have reasonable enough negotiations this time around that they aren’t constantly running to the media to trash the other side, either directly or anonymously. It’s gotten so, so ugly in the past, between the pandemic shutdown negotiations and the last CBA. Cubs did it better:Feeling a little…BLUE pic.twitter.com/gGLYVXakaQ
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) December 4, 2025 Very interesting to see contact coming back into vogue, with the timing aligning quite well with rules changes that were designed in part to incentivize putting the ball in play:Whiff Rate by Pitch Speed, since 2008 Fastballs only(excludes pitchers-as-batters, except Ohtani)The averages in the Grand Total are the simple averages There's been a turn since 2020 where the whiff rates are progressively going down (after controlling for pitch speed) pic.twitter.com/XW178Uz0C2
— Tangotiger ? (@tangotiger) December 5, 2025 Of course, on the flip side, Jayson Stark writes about how the rate of doubles and triples has continued to plummet. Some of it is the fact that there are still fewer balls in play than there were 20 years ago, of course. But a lot of it is defensive positioning – aided by advancements in data and tracking – getting better and better at cutting down doubles and triples. Sometimes, doing the things that can help a team win are a little incompatible with overall fun. (It’s mostly PCA’s fault, though.) Speaking of that incompatibility – I understand wanting to win, and I remember what it was like when this kind of thing was happening with Barry Bonds (with the math supporting it), but it does seem to run counter to the entire idea of baseball existing to entertain fans:The next time Acuna came to the plate, Ozzie intentionally walked him again. pic.twitter.com/WvJak0CqPd
— Chuck Garfien (@ChuckGarfien) December 4, 2025 Greg Maddux:Greg Maddux told me that THIS was the Best Pitch that he ever threw. The full story of how he waited 6 years to throw it! ?"You learn from your mistakes." pic.twitter.com/IgFTFYT9D4
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