Your Twitter experience is really only as good as the people you follow. When it comes to baseball Twitter, following the right people is critical not only to staying informed, but also to staying sufficiently entertained.
While everyone usually has a nice mix of friends, online acquaintances and informed insiders, there are always lots of good follows that go under-followed, or at least go unknown to you. We're here to help.
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Here is The Sporting News' 2022 must-follow MLB Twitter list. It's an evolving list, so be sure to follow @sn_mlb and let us know who we should add, or email baseball editor Jason Foster at [email protected] with recommendations.
The Sporting News
@sn_mlb — The Sporting News' baseball account. News, features, giveaways, nostalgia, snark and more.
@ryanfagan — Features, analysis, baseball cards and other baseball-y observations. BBWAA member.
@ByJasonFoster — Baseball commentary, features, nostalgia and general silliness. Huge dork. BBWAA member.
@tgatt_tsn — Baseball nut, Jersey guy. Trying to see a different game.
@BobHille — Longtime baseball guy, former TSN executive editor. BBWAA gold-card holder (fancy!).
@CurlsAndSports — First true love is baseball, hates the WAR stat, will make it to all 30 stadiums soon.
@MarcLancaster — Former MLB beat guy. BBWAA member.
@EdwardSutelan — Stats and analysis.
@JoeRiveraSN — The fun side of baseball. The stress-free side of baseball. Liker of bat flips. Nerd. BBWAA member.
Best of the beats
@danconnolly2016 — Orioles beat for The Athletic, longtime Baltimore Sun beat writer.
@jorgecastillo — Los Angeles Times Dodgers beat writer.
@dgoold (Derrick Goold) — Cardinals beat writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Former BBWAA president.
@susanslusser — Giants beat writer for The San Francisco Chronicle and former president of the BBWAA. Former A's beat writer.
@anthonyfenech — Detroit Tigers beat writer for The Detroit Free Press.
@lindseyadler — Yankees beat writer for The Athletic.
@deeshathosar — Mets beat writer for the New York Daily News.
@Russ_Dorsey1 — MLB insider for Bally Sports and Stadium. Former Cubs beat writer.
@ThreeTwoEephus (Levi Weaver) — Texas Rangers beat writer for The Athletic.
@DOBrienATL (David O'Brien) — Atlanta Braves beat writer for The Athletic and music maven.
@mlbbowman (Mark Bowman) — Atlanta Braves beat writer for MLB.com and deadpan humorist.
@justdelossantos (Justice delos Santos) — Pirates beat writer for MLB.com.
@aarongleeman — Twins beat writer for The Athletic.
@ctrent (C. Trent Rosecrans) — Reds beat writer for The Athletic and past president of the BBWAA.
@Todd_Rosiak — Brewers beat writer for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
@TBTimes_Rays (Marc Topkin) — Rays beat writer for the Tampa Bay Times.
National writers
@Ken_Rosenthal — The Athletic, perhaps the ultimate insider.
@JeffPassan — If Rosenthal's not the ultimate insider, then it's Passan.
@JonHeyman — Another insider, MLB columnist at the New York Post and an MLB Network personality.
@KurkjianESPN (Tim Kurkjian) — Baseball analyst for ESPN.
@ByMcCullough (Andy McCullough) — National baseball writer for The Athletic.
@JaysonSt (Jayson Stark) — Senior baseball writer at The Athletic. Plenty of great stats and baseball anecdotes.
@chelsea_Janes — National MLB reporter for The Washington Post. Former Nationals beat writer.
@Britt_Ghiroli — Senior MLB writer for The Athletic.
@BNightengale (Bob Nightengale) — National baseball writer for USA Today.
@rustindodd — Features writer for The Athletic, former MLB beat writer.
@emmabaccellieri — Features and other baseball writing at Sports Illustrated.
@stephapstein — Senior writer at Sports Illustrated.
@castrovince (Anthony Castrovince) — Writer for MLB.com. Features and other witty content.
Analytics
@enosarris — Writes about statistics and fantasy baseball for The Athletic. Beer aficionado.
@DSzymborski (Dan Szymborski) — Senior writer for Fangraphs. Creator of “ZIPS” projections model. Cat lover.
@jay_jaffe — Another senior writer at Fangraphs. Author of "The Cooperstown Casebook."
@darenw (Daren Willman) — Director of research and development for MLB.
@Mike_Petriello — Advanced stat guy for MLB.
Notable MLB player accounts
@bryceharper3 — That Bryce Harper.
@MStrooo6 — Mets starting pitcher Marcus Stroman.
@NoahSyndergaard — Angels starting pitcher and probably still enemy of Mr. Met.
@whatwouldDOOdo — Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle.
@Amir_Garrett — Another MLB reliever with a nice big Twitter presence.
Misc.
@cut4 — The hip, youthful alter ego of MLB.
@BaseballBrit — As his Twitter bio says, "Cheerful British chap on a mission to promote interest in baseball."
@jomboy_ — Irreverent but entertaining video analysis.
@SIS_baseball — The place to go for a focus on defense and defensive analytics.
@middlebrooks (Will Middlebrooks) — Member of 2013 World Series champion Red Sox, current analyst with NESN and CBS Sports.
@FoolishBB — Silly baseball videos, and more.
@BlooperBraves — The sassiest mascot in MLB. Mayor of Cincinnati.
@aisle424 — Cubs fan blogger, with all the emotional swings you'd expect.
@JDunnah — Witty Braves fan and self-described “ayatollah of mock and trollah.”
@curlyfro — Writes about sports and Black culture.
@DannyVietti — Writer, podcaster for CBS Sports.
@StaceGots (Stacey Gotsulias) — Host of the "Locked On Yankees" podcast, tweeter of other pop culture tidbits.
@metspolice — Snarky tweets 'bout the Mets.
@Firstmanagram (David Firstman) — Baseball author.
@UniWatch — This guy stays on top of uniform changes.
@BreakingT — Maker of cool, real-time sports T-shirts.
@Rotowear — Another excellent maker of cool, moment-oriented T-shirts
@FlagstaffFilms — We love seeing all the old ballpark home movies.
@BaseballAmerica — If you want to keep up with the game's top prospects, this is the place.
@hbryant42 (Howard Bryant) — Meadowlark Media, HBO, ESPN; commentary, roots as baseball beat writer and author.
@MLBCathedrals — Legendary ballparks, past and present (mostly past).
@NumbersMLB — Keeps you up to date with everyone's uniform digits.
@MLBRandomStats — Who doesn't love random cool stats?
@OriolesStatist1 — For devoted Orioles fans, by a devoted Orioles fan.
@PitchingNinja (Rob Friedman) — Pitching Analyst and frequent GIF tweeter.
@nlbmprez (Bob Kendrick) — Executive director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in K.C.
@theaceofspaeder (Ryan M. Spaeder) — Finder of obscure stats, author of two books on the subject.
@TheNatsReport — For everything Nationals.
@Montreal_Expos — An account for those who miss the (maybe? probably?) 1994 World Series champs.
@JessicaDBrand — MLB Network researcher.
@SlangsOnSports (Sarah Langs) — Cool stats and more for MLB.
@PassonJim — Author, baseball podcaster.
@BetweenTheNums (Greg Harvey) — Using stats to make cool visualizations.
@HighHeatStats — Baseball stats and analysis.
@Eich_AJ (Austin Eich) — Baseball nostalgia.
@EugeneFreedman — Baseball labor relations.
@BizballMaury (Maury Brown) — Senior contributor at Forbes. The business of baseball and other sports.
@Super70sSports — Blending laugh-out-loud humor with a love of the past. Sometimes NSFW.
@Topps — The King of Trading Cards still has a strong collectibles game.
@PaniniAmerica — Makers of the modern Donruss baseball cards, plus other sports cards and collectibles.
Who's missing? Let us know.
