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The Pirates announced they have claimed outfielder Will Robertson off waivers from the White Sox. Ryan Kreidler was designated for assignment in a corresponding move. Pittsburgh marks the third MLB organization for Robertson in the past four months. He came to Chicago in a trade from Toronto back in July after getting designated for assignment by the Blue Jays. Robertson had been in Toronto’s minor league system for his entire career heading into this season, since getting drafted by the team in 2019. A strong start to the Triple-A season earned Robertson his first taste of MLB action in June. He slashed .292/.403/.578 with the Buffalo Bisons prior to getting the call. Robertson made three starts with the Blue Jays, recording an RBI single for his first MLB hit on June 15 against the Phillies. It would be his only knock with the team. Robertson spent his first week in Chicago with the big-league club. He appeared in four games, making two starts. He went 0-for-6 with four strikeouts. Robertson was optioned to Triple-A on July 19. He returned to the White Sox on August 27 and carved out a semi-regular role over the final month of the season. Robertson made 13 starts in September, while also appearing twice as a pinch-hitter. He recorded seven hits in 44 at-bats. Andrew McCutchen and Tommy Pham are free agents, so Pittsburgh could use some outfield depth heading into 2026. Robertson’s persistent strikeout issues will make it tough for him to hold down a regular MLB job, but he’s shown power potential at times in the minors. He hit 20 home runs in Triple-A between Buffalo and Charlotte this past season. Robertson popped 19 homers in 464 plate appearances with Buffalo in 2024, matching his mark from 2023 with Double-A New Hampshire. Pittsburgh claimed Kreidler off waivers from Detroit in August. He spent a week on the big-league roster in September before heading back to Triple-A Indianapolis. Kreidler did not make an appearance with the Pirates. Kreidler spent parts of four MLB seasons with the Tigers. He’s hit just .138 across 211 plate appearances at the highest level. His main draw is defensive versatility. Kreidler has made appearances at second base, shortstop, third base, left field, and center field with Detroit. If Kreidler clears waivers, he’ll qualify for minor league free agency at the beginning of the offseason. View the full article

Toronto will be missing some power from the left side for Game 2 against Seattle. Outfielder Anthony Santander has been scratched with lower back tightness, the team announced. Davis Schneider will replace Santander, playing left field and batting eighth. Santander was originally slotted seventh in the order, but now Ernie Clement will move up to that spot. Santander was 3-for-13 so far this postseason. He did have one of Toronto’s two hits in the first game of the ALCS. Santander was part of the Blue Jays’ lone scoring opportunity after he ripped a single into right field with one out in the second inning. Victor Robles misplayed the ball, and Santander ended up on second base. An Andres Gimenez pop-out followed by a George Springer groundout would end the threat, and Toronto wouldn’t get a runner beyond first base the rest of the game. The switch-hitting Santander started three games in the ALDS against the Yankees. He was on the bench against left-hander Max Fried in Game 2. Santander struggled from both sides of the plate in the regular season, but he was especially poor as a right-handed hitter. He hit just .146 in 55 plate appearances as a righty. Santander’s results from the left side weren’t that much better (.185 batting average), but he did pop six home runs, albeit in about three times as many at-bats. The Blue Jays landed Santander on a five-year, $92.5MM deal this past offseason. Unfortunately, they’ve gotten used to playing without him. A partially dislocated left shoulder in late May cost Santander all of June, July, and August, plus most of September. He returned for the final week of the regular season, appearing in four games. The teams will head to Seattle for Game 3 on Wednesday, so Santander will have tonight and tomorrow to recover. If Santander’s back doesn’t improve, Toronto could replace him on the ALCS roster. Bo Bichette doesn’t seem like he’ll be among the options to join the team as he continues to deal with a PCL sprain. The video of Bichette running the bases on Saturday didn’t inspire much confidence in a potential return, though manager John Schneider said the shortstop didn’t suffer a setback during the session. “It showed him and us that there’s still a little bit of uncertainty there. And didn’t want to put him in a compromised position,” Schneider told reporters on Sunday, including Arden Zwelling of Sportsnet. Bichette resumed on-field running work last week, but was ultimately left off the ALCS roster. Gimenez picked up another start at shortstop in Game 1 against the Mariners. He’s started every playoff game at the position. With Clement taking Gimenez’s spot at second base and Schneider filling in for Santander in the outfield, Isiah Kiner-Falefa is the only remaining infield option on the bench. Outfielder Joey Loperfido seems like the more likely option to join the roster if Santander can’t continue. Bichette has less than two weeks to get ready for the World Series if Toronto were to advance past Seattle. Schneider also shared some insight on the pitching side ahead of Game 2, again relayed by Zwelling. Righty Chris Bassitt will be available out of the bullpen for the duration of the series, while the plan is to have fellow right-hander Max Scherzer start Game 4. Schneider added that Scherzer could pitch sooner than Game 4 if an unexpected scenario comes up. The veteran arms did not make the ALDS roster against the Yankees, but seem poised to contribute in this round. Bassitt went on the 15-day IL on September 19 with lower back tightness. He was not stretched out enough to be ready for the series against New York. Bassitt put together a serviceable year in Toronto’s rotation, finishing the regular season with a 3.96 ERA across 32 appearances. He was coming off an uncharacteristic season in 2024 with a bloated 9.2% walk rate that led to an ERA over 4.00 for the first time since 2016. Bassitt got the control in check this year while pushing his groundball rate back above league-average levels. The steady performance helped him record double-digit wins for the fifth straight campaign. Bassitt was set to enter the playoffs with some momentum, as he had a 3.23 ERA over the final two months of the season. He could be called on as soon as Game 2, with Toronto sending the inexperienced Trey Yesavage to the hill. Scherzer, on the other hand, has been anything but reliable in his first season with the Blue Jays. He posted a career-worst 5.19 ERA across 17 starts after missing the first three months of the season with a thumb injury. Schneider mentioned not liking how Scherzer matched up against the Yankees as the reason for his omission from the ALDS roster. Scherzer allowing 17 earned runs over 15 innings in September likely didn’t help his case. The season-long numbers were discouraging, but there were positive signs for Scherzer. His 4.26 SIERA suggests he pitched better than his bloated ERA. Scherzer’s four-seam fastball velocity was up more than a mile per hour compared to last season in Texas. His slider remains an above-average whiff pitch. And even as his skills have diminished, Scherzer still has the temperament of a pitcher you’d like to have on your side in the postseason. The decision to confine Bassitt to the bullpen and use Scherzer as a starter might have to do with preparation. While neither pitcher has much experience as a reliever, Bassitt did make an appearance out of the bullpen this season. With his turn in the rotation not scheduled to come up again before the All-Star break, Bassitt tossed an inning in relief against the Athletics on July 13. It was only 10 pitches and three batters, but it could be enough to make Bassitt better-suited to enter in the middle of a game. View the full article

(Photo Credit: Paramount+) Five months after creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson’s Yellowjackets secured a renewal order from Paramount+, it has now been confirmed that the hit psychological thriller will officially be concluding its run with the upcoming fourth season. The creative team is currently targeting a 2026 production start date. What did the Yellowjackets creators say about the Paramount+ show’s impending conclusion? In their statement, Lyle and Nickerson expressed how grateful they are towards the cast, crew, and writers, as well as the loyal fans of Yellowjackets who have believed in the show’s story since the beginning. “After three incredible seasons, and great consideration, we’re excited to announce that we will be bringing the story of Yellowjackets to its twisted conclusion in this fourth and final season,” Lyle and Nickerson’s statement reads. “We’ve always known there would come a point when the story would tell us it wants to end, and it’s our belief that our job — our responsibility — is to listen. Telling this emotional, wild, and deeply human story has been a profoundly meaningful experience and a true honor for us, and we’re so very grateful to the brilliant cast, crew, and writers who have bravely gone on the journey with us to bring it to life. Most of all, we want to thank the fans who have stuck with us through every moment, mystery, and meal — the Hive is nothing without you! We can’t wait to share the final chapter with you and hope you find it … delicious.” Yellowjackets currently stars Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Lauren Ambrose, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Liv Hewson, Courtney Eaton, Elijah Wood, Hilary Swank, and more. The series is created and executive-produced by showrunners Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, with Jonathan Lisco serving as its showrunner. It is a production by Lionsgate Television. Since its debut in 2021, the show has maintained its Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes for the past three seasons. (Source: THR) The post Hit Paramount+ TV Show Ending With Season 4 appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. View the full article

http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/USATSI_27311033.jpgNick Turchiaro-Imagn Images It was really close. On Sunday, in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, in the top of the first inning, with one out and runners on first and third, once and future hero playoff hero Jorge Polanco hit a bouncer to the third baseman. The runner on third was going on contact, but the runner on third was Cal Raleigh, and while relatively quick for a catcher, the Sultan of Squat is not exactly known for his speed. Had the ball been hit anywhere other than directly at a corner infielder, he might have beaten it easily. Instead, Addison Barger’s throw beat Raleigh to the bag by at least three metres (the game was in Canada, after all). But it was still really close. The throw arrived in plenty of time, and it was by no means off target. To make sure he ran no risk of hitting the runner, Barger wisely threw the ball toward the right side – the first base side – of catcher Alejandro Kirk’s body. The throw wasn’t high either, but it did arrive at shoulder height. Raleigh was running as hard as he could, and in the time it took Kirk to swing his catcher’s mitt from high on his right side to low on his left side, he’d closed the distance to roughly one metre. Then Kirk made an important decision. With Raleigh bearing down on him, he chose not to keep swinging the glove down and toward the plate. He reached out for a high tag and swept the left side of his body out of the way in the same moment. Self-preservation undoubtedly played a role in the decision. It cost him valuable centimetres (God, this feels wrong), and it very nearly allowed Raleigh to sneak his right cleat between Kirk’s legs and onto home plate before his torso crashed into the mitt. For the briefest of moments, the two catchers looked like colliding galaxies, smashing then spinning together as their gravitational fields intertwined: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Colliding-Galaxies-GIF.gif In real time, the play went from looking like a sure out to an impossibly close call. Maybe Raleigh got his foot in there and maybe he didn’t. The call on the field was out, and unbelievably, the Mariners declined to challenge it. The video never got dissected by the replay room in New York. The chief marketing officer of Zoom Communications, Inc. surely wept. In theory, teams should hold on to their challenges unless they feel confident that the call in question will be overturned, but in practice, they have two challenges in the postseason, and the ability to request an umpire’s challenge means that there’s effectively no penalty for wasting a challenge. This one wouldn’t have been a waste. The play looked just about as close as it could get, and it offered the chance to take an early lead in Game 1 of the ALCS. It was a no-brainer. After the play, the broadcast showed seven replays over a period of 55 seconds. Two of those replays were repeats, so in all, we got six angles of the play at the plate. Americans and Canadians leaned in toward their televisions and watched intently for those 55 seconds, but even with some of the replays coming in slow motion, it just wasn’t enough time to tell for certain. Had Kirk’s tag caught Raleigh’s arm or traveled the extra distance to his stomach? Had Raleigh’s cleat, obscured in a cloud of dirt and chalk, caught the front of the plate or popped over it? Which happened first? The video below shows exactly what the viewer at home saw. It would be impossible for anyone to say what happened with certainty after just one viewing of these clips: First, obviously, we got the real-time action, starting with the center field camera and cutting to the high home camera once Polanco put the ball in play. Even if the play had been slowed down, the distance and the angle likely made it impossible to tell when Raleigh touched home and when Kirk touched Raleigh: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Real-Time-View.png Next, we got a view from directly behind home plate, once again at full speed. Raleigh’s body blocked the view of Kirk’s glove, making it impossible to tell when the tag happened: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Replay-Angle-1.png The play happened much too fast to tell what happened at game speed, so the next shot came in slow motion. It was shot at a low angle from down the left field line, which meant the camera was behind Raleigh’s body, which was once again blocking both his foot and Kirk’s glove: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Replay-Angle-2.png The next slow motion replay came from a bird’s eye view from above home plate. It was a great shot, but Kirk’s left foot blocked the corner of the plate, making it impossible to tell when Raleigh’s foot touched home. The high angle also made it tough to tell whether Kirk’s glove caught the bottom of Raleigh’s right arm or passed right underneath it and touched him in the stomach, a distinction that looked certain to be the difference between out and safe: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Replay-Angle-3.png Next came a beautifully oversaturated shot from the first base dugout, likely using the super slow-motion cameras that capture shots of check swings. Unfortunately, the angle meant that this time, Kirk was the one between the camera and the mitt, blocking the view of the tag. The low angle also foreshortened home plate so much that it almost disappeared. It’s hard to know when the foot touches an invisible plate: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Replay-Angle-4.png The final shot showed the home plate umpire’s angle of the play (so much so that the umpire very nearly blocked the camera’s view entirely). As we’ll see in a moment, this proved to be the decisive angle, but even in slow motion, it was too much for the human eye to track both the progress of the foot and the moment the glove actually touched the runner. Note the expression on Raleigh’s face. He looks like a three-year-old who finds tags every bit as disgusting as broccoli: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Replay-Angle-5.png After the first pitch to the next batter, the broadcast cut to shots of an impassive John Schneider in the Blue Jays’ dugout and a relieved-looking Barger at third base, then repeated the replays from the overhead view and the umpire’s view. And then the game went on. At that point, no one at home could know for certain whether the call had been correct, or whether the Mariners’ risky decision to let the play go unchallenged would prove to be catastrophically cautious: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Decisive-Shot-GIF.gif This is the decisive angle, and it’s slowed down even further from the replay on the broadcast. Even at this slow speed, and even zoomed in on the foot or the glove, the difficulty of the call is apparent. There likely wouldn’t have been a clear enough shot for the replay officials to do anything but let the call stand. Raleigh’s cleat sent a wave of dirt and chalk from the batter’s box ahead of it. You need to watch several times before you start to get a sense of where the chalk ends and where the cleat begins: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Foot-Crossing-the-Plate-GIF.gif The view of the tag is clearer, but not by all that much. It’s clear that Kirk did tag Raleigh’s wrist rather than his stomach, saving him precious centimetres. But because the view is from behind, the only way to tell when the tag actually took place is to look and see when pressure from the wrist starts to deform the tip of the glove. The first sign is that the back half of the glove, the finger side, starts to pop up above the front half, the thumb side. But even from this view and at this speed, it’s still not as obvious as we’d like: http://blogs.fangraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Glove-Deforming-GIF.gif The cloud of dust arrives at the corner of home plate at the exact same moment the glove starts to deform. In fact, there’s a puff of white dust just ahead of Raleigh’s heel that really fools you into thinking it’s part of the shoe, and that puff of dust was safe! But Raleigh’s heel doesn’t tough the exact corner of the plate. It’s a few centimetres over to the right, crossing the front of the plate just a frame or two after Kirk’s glove starts to deform, and a frame or two after the puff of dust. Raleigh is out by just about as small a margin as you can imagine. (Fine, I’ll say it: Raleigh was out by millimetres.) 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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. One story dominating my feeds today, so thought I would get into it. n+1 Job Posting Gets People Both Mad and Defensive n+1 did one of the most necessary and thankless tasks in media: post about a job opening and include the actual salary range. The number is above the median U.S. salary of $49,500, but the gig is in Brooklyn, which I can report from personal experience is considerably more expensive than the median place to live (which apparently is Cleveland?). The strongest negative reactions were as predictable as they were understandable: this just doesn’t seem like enough for the responsibilities, n+1’s reputation, and the realities of trying to build a professional life and career in New York. The loudest defender of n+l responded to these criticisms with perhaps unadvised (and largely deleted) as far as I can tell) vitriol. (side note: I am not going to link to individual X posts here. If you are interested, you can search for n+1 and see the terrain quickly). I have a little perspective to give on the subject of running an independent media organization that doesn’t fit neatly into “this salary is shameful” or the “It is what it is.” I am also going to assume for the moment that n+1 is not radically overpaying some top executive person somewhere or renting ungodly expensive office space, and of course if this is the case then those dollars should be redirected. And as a registered nonprofit, n+1 does not have some corporate overlord siphoning off dollars that could be used to raise the salaries of people working there. The truth that bridges these extreme ends of responses is this: there is not much money in independent media. There is even less money for indie media that has a mission of some kind. And that is what n+1 is, and I have a ton of respect for them. My guess is that they are probably paying as much as they can across the board and wish they could pay more. To say that they should unionize is a nice sentiment, but that assumes that there are marginal dollars available to flow to employees from the corporation. For employees of The New York Times or Conde Nast, this is an on-going negotiation, as those companies, over decades, have built brands and businesses that can be quite profitable–and can be even more profitable if employee salaries are kept as low as they can be. I will go farther to say that a company should be profitable, if only because it allows for a margin of safety and the possibility of growth. So if a company like n+1 simply cannot pay more, what to do? Should they….just stop operating? What is the next move? I don’t have an answer and neither do people bemoaning this job and other lower-paying full-time positions in media. Nor does it feel right to shrug your shoulders and say them’s the breaks. Because I think we want people who care about arts and ideas to be able to build lives around their jobs. And we would like them to be able to do it without having family money or some other leg up not generally available. The answer to this question isn’t one of hiring policy or unionization or “you could always just go be a cop.” A lot more of us need to pay for indie media. There is more money for employees when more people are paying for it. The dollars to be found for managing editors and junior publicists, and senior designers is not sitting on an untapped line on a ledger somewhere: it is in the quarterly reports of Meta, Netflix, Alphabet, TikTok, and Amazon. Media dollars flow to where attention flows. If n+1 had 27% more subscribers, I bet that job would pay more. Maybe even 27% more. Dollars that come directly from readers are the most reliable and the most insulated from a sponsor walking a way or a tech company changing their terms. Five or ten dollars out of your pocket every month to whatever website or paper or journal or podcast that you care about makes a small difference, but a real one. The nice thing about supporting indie media is that it doesn’t take millions of people changing their habits. A thousand people kicking in and subscribing matters. For some places, hundreds matter, a couple dozen matters. I believe n+1 is doing the best they can. I believe people balking at this level of pay really care. And I think neither n+1 or its critics today can do as much to change the game if there isn’t more support out there. View the full article