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Stephen J. Nesbitt

@stephenjnesbitt · joined 12 Sep 2010

MLB writer, The Athletic

19 609Followers
1 188Following
52 707Posts total
737.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

only three AL teams have a better record than the dbacks, who will miss the playoffs 1.1K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
The Athletic's 2026 MLB postseason Hope-O-Meter survey: How optimistic are you about your team’s chances? Free at this link ⤵️ https://t.co/Ske5G9q92f 8.7K views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
From the Dodgers to the long shots, ranking each MLB contender’s postseason pitching core. Free to read at this link ⤵️ https://t.co/Go3XlZGYLZ 2.9K views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@stephenjnesbitt This is good. I wrote something similar on Father’s Day 2018 and it really opened my eyes to the duality of ballplayer dads 345 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@stephenjnesbitt outstanding article; if you're seeing this, go read it! 4.1K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Throughout this season, I asked big-league dads how they balanced being major leaguers and involved parents. Here's what they said. Free to read at this link: https://t.co/MnGYP8RQYJ 70.6K views · 118 likes · 19 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@stephenjnesbitt This makes me feel old... I was stationed in northern Japan and still remember this all so vividly. Days after, I went and helped with search and rescue efforts and then clean up operations. Crazy to know this young man was just 8 at the time and was nesr the e
4K views · 52 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
https://t.co/TkiowS0tmH 168.2K views · 173 likes · 43 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
Roki Sasaki was 9 when a tsunami ripped through his hometown. His father and grandparents died, as did 18,000 others along Japan's northeast coast. That day dictated so much of what came after for Sasaki. Baseball made him happiest, so he started chasing a major league dream. ht
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477.4K views · 671 likes · 91 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 504this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %17.87%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.13%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post3 5049243.79×
Reach (views ÷ followers)17.87%3.62%4.94×
Engagement rate0.13%1.52%0.09×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

477.4K14 Jan
168.2K
4K15 Jan
70.6K14 Sep
4.1K
345
2.9K22 Sep
8.7K
1.1K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.17%14 Jan
0.14%
1.38%15 Jan
0.20%14 Sep
0.22%
0.00%
0.03%22 Sep
0.06%
0.53%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes69.1%1 031 in total
Reposts10.6%158 in total
Replies1.3%20 in total
Quotes2.3%35 in total
Bookmarks16.6%247 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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