July 26, 2016 – D's Notebook

We are deep into baseball’s silly season: the 7–10 days before the trade deadline. In the era of Twitter, fake “insiders,” who create accounts with names that look very similar to real “insiders” like Buster Olney and Tim Kirkjian, claim to break made-up deals that get the webz a buzzin’.

That made it the perfect time for this “profile” of an account set up to parody both the fake and legit writers who are peddling rumors.

Take a few minutes to get to know @BotStove.