Posts on AaronMorey.comhttps://aaronmorey.com/en-ushttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2026/wrcplus-calculator/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2026/wrcplus-calculator/Earlier in spring training, Cardinals top prospect JJ Weatherholt had no hits but had walked in half of his at bats. I was thinking about the extreme edges of player batting values and trying to understand how that sort of batting line would compare...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2026/wrcplus-calculator/'>[Read More]</a>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2026/what-i-read-in-january-2026/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2026/what-i-read-in-january-2026/I’ve been looking for reasons to write more regularly, and I’m nothing if not a fanboy of Amateur Reader Tom at Wuthering Expectations, so here’s my monthly reading roundup.<br/><br/> On This Island - W.H. Auden§ I didn’t have too many notes on this...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2026/what-i-read-in-january-2026/'>[Read More]</a>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2026/blazes-for-dayses/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2026/blazes-for-dayses/By my count, there are four players currently in affiliated professional baseball whose legal given name is “Blaze”:<br/><br/> Blaze Alexander - Diamondbacks (MLB) Blaze Jordan - Cardinals (AAA) Blaze Pontes - Athletics (High-A) Masyn Blaze Winn -...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2026/blazes-for-dayses/'>[Read More]</a>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/micros/16/https://aaronmorey.com/micros/16/"Say your prayers, cause Santa Claus comes tonight" Gene Autrey, are you threatening me?Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:05:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/nolan-arenado-and-automatic-outs/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/nolan-arenado-and-automatic-outs/Nolan Arenado has a strange batting line: of the 360 qualifying hitters between 2021 and 2025, he has the 24th best strikeout rate. That’s great! But if you’ve watched him hit, you’ll recognize that his skill at making contact is counteracted by the...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/nolan-arenado-and-automatic-outs/'>[Read More]</a>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/what-i-read-in-november-2025/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/what-i-read-in-november-2025/I’ve been looking for reasons to write more regularly, and I’m nothing if not a fanboy of Amateur Reader Tom at Wuthering Expectations, so here’s my monthly reading roundup.<br/><br/> Some Poems by W.H. Auden§ I finished a section of uncollected...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/what-i-read-in-november-2025/'>[Read More]</a>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/pitcher-war-distribution-updated-2025/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/pitcher-war-distribution-updated-2025/After the 2023 season, I looked into how pitcher WAR value was distributed among starting pitchers, and whether that trend was changing over time. I concluded that there were fewer pitchers putting up upper-tier WAR performances (4.0 or more fWAR),...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/pitcher-war-distribution-updated-2025/'>[Read More]</a>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/cardinals-2026-mlb-draft-odds-updated/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/cardinals-2026-mlb-draft-odds-updated/A few weeks back I took a shot at estimating the Cardinals’ odds of drafting at any particular spot in the 2026 draft, based on the rules of the MLB draft (outlined in my previous post).<br/><br/> Since then, I found a pretty significant bug in the...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/cardinals-2026-mlb-draft-odds-updated/'>[Read More]</a>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/micros/15/https://aaronmorey.com/micros/15/4 (screaming in his little sister's face): "WHO YA GONNA CALL?"<br />The baby: "Ghost! Monsters!"Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:26:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/what-i-read-in-october-2025/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/what-i-read-in-october-2025/I’ve been looking for reasons to write more regularly, and I’m nothing if not a fanboy of Amateur Reader Tom at Wuthering Expectations, so here’s my monthly reading roundup.<br/><br/> Generally in October I like to set aside what else I’m reading...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/what-i-read-in-october-2025/'>[Read More]</a>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/cardinals-2026-mlb-draft-odds/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/cardinals-2026-mlb-draft-odds/Edit As of 11/22/2025: I found a pretty significant bug in the logic I used to outline these odds. The updated numbers are in the correction post.<br/><br/> When the 2025 MLB regular season came to a close, the final positions for the 2026 draft...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/cardinals-2026-mlb-draft-odds/'>[Read More]</a>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/frost-and-berry/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/frost-and-berry/I posted a while back about love and ownership in “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”:<br/><br/> [The owner] is so distant from the woods, he won’t even notice that Frost has stopped to admire them, and isn’t seeing for himself how beautiful they...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/frost-and-berry/'>[Read More]</a>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler/The strongest impression I kept coming back to while reading If on a winter’s night a traveler was of a slight-of-hand trick. You may have seen one of those videos where Penn and Teller explain how they do a trick, but they do it so smoothly that...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler/'>[Read More]</a>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/separating-code-from-content-in-astro/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/separating-code-from-content-in-astro/This site is built using the web app framework Astro. Astro offers a huge set of features to build full stack applications, but I mostly use it for static site generation (SSG) right now.<br/><br/> I wanted to open source the code aspects of my...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/separating-code-from-content-in-astro/'>[Read More]</a>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/anchored-headings-in-astro/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/anchored-headings-in-astro/What’s an Anchored Heading?§ It’s what you see right above this: the heading has a section symbol next to it that allows you to click and navigate directly to that section on the page. You can bookmark or share that url and it will bring you right...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/anchored-headings-in-astro/'>[Read More]</a>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/micros/14/https://aaronmorey.com/micros/14/"You belong among the wild flowers" "You belong in a boat out at sea" Tom Petty, are you threatening me?Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:54:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/you-better-look-out-because-im-gonna-say/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/you-better-look-out-because-im-gonna-say/I don’t normally curse on this site, but I’m going to at least allude to profanity here. If you’ve thus far managed to be on the internet without encountering what is commonly known as The F Word, you may wish to avert your eyes.<br/><br/> We’ve all...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/you-better-look-out-because-im-gonna-say/'>[Read More]</a>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/micros/13/https://aaronmorey.com/micros/13/In case anyone is doing market research, my rendition of the "That's What Bilbo Baggins Hates" song from The Hobbit killed in the 4-7 year old demographic.Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:40:00 GMThttps://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/men-and-reading-man-and-reading/https://aaronmorey.com/posts/2025/men-and-reading-man-and-reading/I don’t think I’ve ever commented on the “men don’t read anymore” controversy, mostly because my friends are nerds and I barely notice it happening (if it actually is).<br/><br/> Nonetheless, I liked this Substack post. His point comes down to...<br /><a class="read-more" href='/posts/2025/men-and-reading-man-and-reading/'>[Read More]</a>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT