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Edition #150
December 7
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Manchester City just had another draw. Do you think Pep will last this season in the club?
I find it very difficult... He's very stressed.
I admire him, but at that pace, they'll sack him.
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Ex-Botafogo, Luís Castro revela sondagem de times brasileiros: "Deixei clara a minha intenção"
O técnico Luís Castro, livre no mercado desde que foi demitido do Al-Nassr em setembro, declarou que muito dificilmente vai voltar à assumir um clube num futuro próximo. Em entrevista durante a "Ibercup", torneio infantil organizado na cidade portuguesa de Estoril, o treinador confirmou a procura de alguns clubes, mas disse que pretende voltar à atividade apenas no início da próxima temporada europeia.
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Nas últimas semanas, os rumores sobre clubes interessados no Brasil se intensificaram. No país, Luís Castro comandou o Botafogo entre março de 2022 e junho de 2023, quando deixou o clube, líder do Campeonato Brasileiro à época, para fechar com o Al-Nassr, da Arábia Saudita.
Luís Castro confirmou que houve conversas com alguns clubes, mas que suas intenções de dar uma pausa na carreira foram deixadas claras. No entanto, o português não descartou mudar de ideia em cenários "muito específicos":
— Felizmente, ao longo deste tempo, desde que saí do Al-Nassr, houve várias abordagens. Tenho falado com as pessoas de forma natural, como sempre fiz ao longo da minha vida, de forma muito respeitosa com os clubes que fizeram essas abordagens de diferentes países do mundo. Aquilo que posso dizer neste momento é que a minha intenção será voltar ao trabalho apenas em junho ou julho do ano que vem — disse.
Para o ex-técnico de Cristiano Ronaldo no Al-Nassr, o diferencial para um convite neste momento seria o projeto esportivo apresentado:
— Se me sentir muito atraído por um projeto, não quer dizer que não o aceite. Mas só um projeto que me cative por completo, e não tem nada a ver com dinheiro, é que me fará desviar do meu objetivo. Se algum projeto me cativar pela forma como querem abordar a temporada, os objetivos a atingir, a organização que têm, o elenco, as categorias de base… Mas o ideal seria voltar apenas na próxima temporada — reforçou.
Times como Santos, Vasco, Corinthians e, mais recentemente, Atlético-MG surgiram como principais interessados no técnico português. Apesar do início da temporada no Brasil logo em janeiro, Luís Castro garante que um retorno ao futebol do país ainda não foi descartado:
CBF apresenta troféu Roberto Dinamite, que será dado ao artilheiro do Brasileirão pela 1ª vez
A Confederação Brasileira de Futebol apresentou neste sábado o Troféu Roberto Dinamite, que contemplará pela primeira vez o artilheiro do Brasileirão. O prêmio carrega o nome do ídolo do Vasco, o maior goleador da história da competição, com 190 gols.
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A uma rodada do fim do Brasileirão, a luta pela artilharia segue acirrada. Yuri Alberto, do Corinthians, e Alerrandro, do Vitória, lideram, com 14 gols cada. Logo atrás, aparece Estêvão, joia do Palmeiras, com 13 gols. Caso mais de um atleta termine como artilheiro da competição, a CBF dará um troféu para cada jogador.
O troféu será entregue na próxima semana. Além da homenagem, o goleador do Brasileirão vai receber R$ 100 mil, e mais uma quantia de R$ 5 mil por gol marcado durante o campeonato.
Thaisa repudia agressão de torcedores do Osasco: "Dei minha vida quando estava aqui"
A bicampeã olímpica (Pequim 2008 e Londres 2012) e central do Minas, Thaisa, fez um desabafo na noite desta sexta-feira (6), logo após conquistar a vitória sobre o Osasco, no Ginásio José Liberatti, casa da equipe paulista. Com uma virada eletrizante ao fim do tie-break, um dos torcedores se irritou e arremessou um lança confete na direção da jogadora e de sua companheira de time, Kisy.
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Apesar de atualmente ser reconhecida por seu papel de destaque no elenco do Minas Tênis Clube, Thaisa representou o Osasco por boa parte de sua carreira, de 2008 a 2016. A jogadora ficou sensibilizada com a tentativa de agressão e reforçou a necessidade desse tipo de atitude ser registrado em súmula.
Com 17 pontos na partida, a central conquistou o troféu Viva Vôlei, como a melhor em quadra. Além do episódio com Thaísa e Kisy, o clássico foi recheado de polêmicas. As jogadoras do Osasco, Valquíria e Natália Zílio precisaram da intervenção de Tiffany para amenizar uma discussão durante o 3º set. No fim do jogo, as comissões técnicas das duas equipes se estranharam, mas o clima foi apaziguado com um abraço entre Nicola Negro e Luizomar de Moura.
Canal Jovem Pan
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A Deep Dive into Clay Holmes
On the heels of an unexpected postseason berth in 2024, the New York Mets entered the 2025 offseason with clear needs. Chief among them: 60% of their 2024 rotation entered free agency and the playoffs exposed clear holes in their bridge to Edwin Diaz.
David Stearns and his group aimed to kill two birds with one stone with their signing Friday night, swiping RHP Clay Holmes from the New York Yankees and inking the hurler to a three-year, $38 million contract.
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One of baseball’s best firemen is a fascinating addition to the Mets’ staff. ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that Holmes will be signed as a starting pitcher, despite being primarily utilized out of the bullpen in his career. Passan also reported that Holmes will receive an opt-out after the second year.
Holmes finished 2024 on a sour note, losing his late-inning job to Luke Weaver, amidst 13 blown regular season saves. That’s not to discredit his dominant four-year stretch where he established himself as one of the game’s best set-up men.
Holmes represents a different project for the Mets’ pitching development group after they signed Frankie Montas earlier in the week. Holmes is in familiar company in the Mets organization, due to Eric Jagers and Co. recently poaching highly-regarded pitching coach Desi Druschel from the Yankees. Dreuschel overlapped with Holmes for years in New York.
Unlike Montas, Holmes enjoyed recent excellence, employing a nasty sinker/sweeper combo en route to a 3.71 ERA/3.44 FIP in 2024.
However, like Montas, Holmes’ success depended on another team optimizing his arsenal. In 2019, the Pirates sent the struggling reliever packing to the Yankees in exchange for two minor leaguers. Pittsburgh attributed his command issues to the wild movement his pitches produced.
A decade ago, Holmes would have floundered in the 40-man bubble, with his command serving as the main detriment to a stable roster spot.
A decade ago, the idea of seam-shifted wake only existed in theory. However, around the time, Holmes was sent to New York, the idea of seam-shifted wake (SSW) had made its way into the public domain, thanks to ground-breaking work from Utah Professor Barton Smith.
Smith concluded that certain pitches move more unexpectedly through their path to the plate, a byproduct of the ball’s seams interacting in a certain way with air molecules.
The Yankees incorporated Smith’s research into their reasoning for Holmes’ acquisition. Baseball Savant proves this theory; Holmes’ pitches move vertically more than any other comparable offerings.
Coupled with Dreschel’s specialty in pitch tunneling, Holmes broke out in a big way upon landing in the Bronx. Dreschel took advantage of Holmes’s perceived weakness – his movement – and turned it into his greatest strength.
In shorter stints, his new repertoire shone.
As a reliever, his sinker emerged as his bread-and-butter, inducing hellacious swings year over year. Coupled with his high release point, his seam-shifted wake and -7.2 VAA gave batters fits. The Seam Shifted Wake phoneme can be observed via the 75-degree difference between the pitch’s spin-based movement and the observed movement indicating a degree of a seam-shifted wake.
Max Bay, currently a quantitative analyst for the World Champions Los Angeles Dodgers, recently released a publicly accessible app that calculates a pitch’s effectiveness by visualizing its expected shape, with respect to a pitcher’s arm angle. Given his 49-degree arm angle, Holmes’ sinker moves six inches more than expected. This unexpected movement leads to more whiffs and poorly-topped ground balls.
Holmes paired his outstanding sinker with a pair of excellent breaking balls. In 2024, his slider performed as one of the best in the business, finishing with a +6 Run Value. Meanwhile, his sweeper induced a 40% putaway rate. This duo helped his Breaking Ball Run Value finish in the 86th percentile in Run Value in 2024
Savant Pitch Mix Analysis visualized Holmes’s plan of action in 2024. He threw his sinker most often when even and behind in the count, and utilized his sweeper and slider mix to finish his opponents off.
Holmes quickly emerged as one of skipper Aaron Boone‘s most trusted arms upon joining the club, stabilizing the late innings in the Bronx. Holmes ditched his slider and change-up, focusing on the pitches that produced the most hectic movement profiles. His whiff rate rose 20% from his time with Pittsburgh while his strong ground ball remained among the league leaders. In his four seasons in the pinstripes, the 31-year-old right-hander pitched to a 2.69 ERA/2.74 FIP, racking up 74 saves and 19 holds.
Technically speaking, Holmes routinely finished among the best in the league in xwOBA, wOBA, xSLG, Barrel %, and xERA over the last four seasons. If it wasn’t for Edwin Díaz locking down the 9th inning across the river, Holmes would have gotten more notice as a household name in New York City.
And yet, despite predictions at the offseason’s outset that he would pitch in tandem with a closer in the same ilk as Díaz in 2025, Holmes will instead slot into the Mets’ rotation to kick off the campaign. While his offerings worked very well out of the bullpen, he should look for an additional weapon to counter the third-time-through-the-order penalty. Although his wOBA in 2024 was similar against both sides of the plate, he should permanently incorporate a change-up into his arsenal, a pitch he’s only tinkered with in games.
A change-up could be a perfect addition to Holmes’ arsenal, given Holmes’ native tendency as a supinator and his work with Tread Athletics. Multiple Mets pitchers, including Jose Quintana, have trained with Tread to improve their pitch design.
In an October 2024 article, Bryan Hoch of MLB.com noted that Holmes recently reincorporated his four-seam fastball late in the season. This fastball, and proposed change-up, could be the key to Holmes’ success as a starter in 2024.
Overall, this is a big swing by the Mets’ front office. Seth Lugo and Jordan Hicks serve as recent examples of relievers that have made the pen-to-rotation shift. Lugo just finished among the AL Cy Young finishers while the jury’s still out on Hicks. Holmes is in the mold of Hicks; a pitcher with a limited arsenal with historical command concerns. Given the Mets’ recent pitching development wins, David Stearns deserves the benefit of the doubt with his plan to mold Clay into a starter.
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