The independent baseball desk

Our editorial standards.

A useful baseball story should tell you what happened, why it matters, and what the evidence cannot yet tell us.

Sources stay attached.

Posterior Wire draws on credited reporting, official MLB information and available baseball data. Each story links to its source. We distinguish reported developments from confirmed announcements, and separate historical observations from projections. We do not claim to have conducted interviews or attended events that we have not.

How we use automation.

Our desk uses AI-assisted extraction and drafting, followed by automated checks for grounding, unsupported names and numbers, copied passages and publication eligibility. These checks are not human editorial review and do not guarantee accuracy. Articles use the Posterior Wire desk attribution; we do not invent reporter identities.

Evidence earns the space.

We aim to add relevant player, team, matchup or rules context to the source facts. Article length follows the material. Repeating uncertainty or adding unrelated statistics does not make a story better. Incomplete drafts are excluded from the main article feed. External reports are labeled separately and open at their original publisher.

Dates and uncertainty matter.

A past-season event is not current news. Historical analysis should be identified as such, and newer data should not be presented as if it was known when an earlier story was filed. An injury report alone does not establish a diagnosis, return date or change in a model probability.

Corrections.

Spot an error? Email [email protected] with the article URL, the disputed passage and supporting evidence. We assess correction requests against the source material. Editorial standards are a commitment to checking and improving the work, not a claim that every published article is error-free.