A list of twitter accounts all baseball bettors should be aware of

A list of twitter accounts all baseball bettors should be aware of

By Gary Wise Sep 9, 2014

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Last month, we published a list of Twitter accounts all soccer bettors should be following in order to keep their information and analysis as up-to-date as possible.  Now, we’re doing the same for baseball, though it’s a very different list for a very different sport.

Betting on baseball is a very different animal than betting on soccer because of the stop-and-go nature of the game, and the way it loans itself to numeric translation.

While soccer is a continuous flow, baseball is a series of easily definable events, each of which is meticulously tracked and recorded, giving bettors a remarkable amount of data from which to extrapolate probability calculations. In essence, amongst the major team sports, soccer is the one whose data trail leaves the strongest sense of a game of incomplete information, while baseball’s information is as complete as any sport gets.

Please understand this list does not include tipsters. These lists focus on helping bettors make their own decisions about who and/or what to bet based on exposure to many qualified voices.

Twitter accounts to follow for baseball analysis

Baseball analytics are advanced, fuelled by a large community of contributors. That list would challenge Google’s space limitations, so what follows is the tip of a very tall iceberg.

These are the big names in major league baseball analysis. Through their tweets, you’ll be able to find the smaller voices they respect, the columns that can educate you and the resources they use in their judgments.

This alphabetically ordered list is confined to those who share their findings on Twitter, thus the absence of names like Bill James (@BillJamesOnline) and other personnel haven’t embraced the platform.

@baseballpro – High-content feed belonging to Baseball Prospectus, whose subscription website has been home to ground-breaking baseball work for almost 20 years.

@baseball_ref – The first of two must-bookmark databases on this list. Baseball-reference.com is home to the complete annals of MLB history and the account tweets out critical game reports that contain enough information to make bets based upon, amongst other pertinent information.

@dszymborski – Writer/analyst who was most responsible for the creation of ZIPS, the most-commonly used projection system in public circulation.

@fangraphs – The second database referenced earlier, Fangraphs Twitter account churns out links to every article on their site, a leader in baseball analysis.

@JonahKeri – Columnist for Grantland and Sports on Earth. Keri’s writings are entertaining and his understanding of the game does a good job of balancing the importance of modern analytics with the eyeball test.

@KeithLaw – Smarmy games lover and serious foodie (Twitter feed content warning), Law focuses his baseball energies in part on minor leaguers, but also contributes transaction analysis in a fast and thorough fashion.

@RobNeyer – Former ESPN mainstay, and SBNation.com National Baseball Editor, now Senior Baseball Editor at FoxSports.com. Neyer bridges the gap from James (with whom he’s worked extensively) to the modern analytics generation.

 Twitter accounts to follow for baseball news

While the above list will educate, this list will inform. As much as any game’s following, baseball writers have learned the benefits of twitter, trying to outrace one another to announce breaking news. If you’re looking for information on pitching changes, line-up changes, injury news, trades and want to be the first person to do so, Twitter provides information faster than any other medium available.

@Buster_ESPN – The senior baseball writer for ESPN Magazine, also writes a subscription-only daily blog from which he shares snippets on his twitter feed. He also live-tweets games.

@Jaysonst – A less-dedicated member of the race to break stories, ESPN’s Stark has made a living crunching and explaining baseballs numbers to the masses.

@JonMorosi – Fox’s baseball second fiddle to Rosenthal (below), Morosi’s analysis isn’t top level, but he’s an excellent reporter who breaks stories fast and regularly.

@JonHeymanCBS – Writer for CBS and regular participant in assorted mlb.com initiatives, Heyman has for years been accused of waiting for calls from super-agent Scott Boras, and there’s no denying he’s usually the source on Boras stories.

@Ken_Rosenthal – Little doubt that Rosenthal is the hardest-working reporter in the game. Seemingly breaks about half the major trade stories amidst what have to be 18-hour workdays.

@MLBdailylineups – Simply, an account that tweets out lineups upon announcement.

@mlbtraderumors – The ultimate transaction site. The twitter feed is a collections of articles that organizes transaction conjecture and confirmation from every major news source on every story.

Feel like we missed anyone? These lists will be updated on occasion. Tell us on twitter @PinnacleSports so we can consider the accounts you’d like to see up above.

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