I was born on 6 August 1956 in San Francisco, California to Janet and (the late) Richard Hovis.
I grew up in Santa Monica, California where I attended elementary, junior high school, and high school (graduating in 1974), in addition to involvement in sports and recreation (Little League +, the Boy’s Club ++). Further, it was in elementary school – St. Augustine’s By-the -Sea Parish School that I found, and made the choice to truly journey with God.
I attended Arizona State University from 1974 to 1977 – seeking to become an architect, however, I was not accepted, and, as such, I graduated with a Liberal Arts degree.
Upon graduation from Arizona State University, I attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and studied City and Regional Planning at the Master’s level. I successfully completed one (1) year in a two (2) year program – I did not complete the Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning – due to personal reasons.
I returned to Santa Monica where I started (October 1979) my career as graphic designer with Exxon Company, USA. I spent five years with Exxon Company, USA.
While working with Exxon Company, USA I was accepted into architectural school – Sci-Arc in Southern California, however, I did not attend preferring to stay with Exxon..
In 1982 I married Laura Flosi and in April 1983 we had our one and only child – Lauren Alain Hovis – a gift from God.
We moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1984 from Los Angeles, where I went to work as a graphic designer with Kitchell CEM (from 1985 -1987).
From 1987 – 1995 I was an independent contractor, and a registered representative in mortgage finance, financial management, graphic design, and drafting.
Further, I attended the University of Phoenix and successfully obtained a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in 1982.
I was also a member of the Scottsdale Jaycees, where I became very involved in community events and projects.
In 1994, I accepted a cartography position with the Defense Mapping Agency in Reston, Virginia. As such, I relocated from Phoenix to Reston.
In 1998, I was accepted and worked as a Visual Information Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2002, I worked as a Support Officer until my retirement (due to a need for shoulder surgery) in September 2018.
Away from my Federal Government service, I have been involved in various organizations and activities in Northern Virginia.
In November of 2011, I married Rebecca Ouellette in Santa Monica, California. I reside in San Tan Valley, AZ with my two hamster - Jess and Timothy, our fish, our lizard - RJ Lizard., and our cats - Pearl and Grey.
As to hobbies, I enjoy playing sports, attending sporting events, mentoring individuals from financial management to hamsters, building models, photography, travel, multimedia design, managing partner for RJ Hamster, and jazz – smooth jazz to a samba or a bossa nova.
Love and God Bless,
Peter – aka RJ Hamster Jo hi
Jesus Christ, my God, I adore You and thank You for all the graces You have given me this day. I offer You my sleep and all the moments of this night. I place myself and all my loved ones, wherever they may be, in Your sacred side and under the mantle of Our Blessed Mother. Let Your holy angels stand watch and keep us in peace. Amen.
Quote of the Day
“Pray, pray a great deal and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to Hell because they have no-one to make sacrifices and pray for them.” -Our Lady of Fatima
Today’s Meditation
“Jesus fled from the enthusiastic crowd after He had miraculously multiplied loaves and fish. The people excitedly pursued Him to make Him king, and He literally headed for the hills. When they finally tracked Him down on the other side of the Sea of Galilee, He did not encourage their enthusiasm. Instead, He practically threw a bucket of water of cold water on them by exhorting them to faith and by telling them about the Mystery of Faith, the holy Eucharist. They enthusiastically sought earthly bread, and Jesus soberly instructed them about the Bread that gives eternal life. Empty enthusiasm is like sand, which shifts with the wind. Supernatural faith is a solid rock, which is not shaken but stands forever. Supernatural faith is a solid rock, which is not shaken but stands forever. Jesus addressed them in faith, and their enthusiasm quickly disappeared. Our faith cannot be initiated through the emotions, much less founded upon them.” —Fr. Basil Nortz, ORC, p. 97
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The daily examination of conscience is an ancient Catholic practice. It’s very simple, and it’s designed to help us identify our sins and weaknesses so that we can improve and grow stronger in the spiritual life, while providing an excellent ongoing preparation for regular Confession. It consists of taking a few minutes at the end of the day to prayerfully review our actions in the light of God’s commandments, followed by the Act of Contrition.
Reflect on the victories and losses
Actively reflecting on the high and low points of the day can help you live more intentionally and bring a renewed sense of resolve into the following day.
Review your actions, words, and thoughts today. Did you actively guard yourself against temptation? Where did sin creep in?
In what moments did you practice virtue and moral courage?
Were you attuned to the Holy Spirit’s promptings today? Where did you feel His inspiration?
Ask Him for the graces necessary to follow His Will more purposefully tomorrow.
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.
Practice gratitude
It is God’s love that has brought you into existence and to this exact moment. Practice looking for His hand in your day.
Where did you feel His loving gaze upon you today?
What people or moments helped you see God in your life?
Thank God for all these moments!
Ask Him to help you recognize His blessings and providence tomorrow.
Renew your commitment to Christ
Remember: our Faith is founded upon a Person—Christ! Renew your personal love and devotion to Him.
Thank God for the gift of His Son Jesus and our call to be His disciples.
Tell the Lord of your desire to know Christ more personally.
If possible, set an intention for your day tomorrow. Ask Our Lord to guide you in this act.
Pray a Hail Mary, Our Father, or another beloved prayer.
Rest with God
He determines the number of the stars, He gives to all of them their names. — Psalm 147:4
A New Kind of Defense Company is Blending AI, Autonomous Systems, and Advanced Sensing to Target Tomorrow’s Battlefield— Learn Why Investors Are Starting to Put VWAV on Their Radar as Global Conflict Accelerates!
VisionWave Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: VWAV)is emerging as a unique player in today’s rapidly evolving defense landscape. As global tensions rise—particularly involving Iran—modern warfare is shifting toward drones, missile defense systems, and AI-powered intelligence.
VWAV is building a multi-domain platform that combines RF sensing, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and advanced computing into one integrated architecture. Rather than focusing on a single niche, the company is aligning itself with the full ecosystem of next-generation defense technologies!
At the same time, NASDAQ small cap VWAV is taking steps to expand its real-world footprint. Its planned acquisition of a majority stake in an Israeli aerospace manufacturer tied to active missile defense systems,along with the launch of an Israeli subsidiary and global expansion efforts, signals a move toward deeper integration in defense supply chains.
With additional initiatives in energy and subsurface sensing, the company is positioning itself beyond traditional defense into broader intelligence markets. As nations scramble to counter drone swarms and missile threats, companies like VWAV are no longer optional—they’re becoming mission-critical.
Monday.com’s (NASDAQ: MNDY) manic Monday, May 11 rally is another sign that AI disruption may not be all it’s cracked up to be. While AI threatens the software landscape, it is still in its early stages, often wrong, and unlikely to disrupt established platformsthat are, themselves, integrating AI into their architecture and services.
The takeaway is that stocks like Monday.comare deeply undervalued relative to forecasts that continue to prove too low, and they appear set to sustain upward momentum over the coming quarters.
MNDY stock advanced 25% in early premarket trading following its release, underscoring the strength of the market’s response. The move not only revealed buyers at a critical support level, a long-term low dating back to 2022, but also effectively closed a gap formed earlier in the year. Combined with bullish setups in the stochastic and MACD indicators, the move shows that market dynamics have shifted.
That shift is from distribution to accumulation. While institutions have bought this stock semi-aggressively over the trailing 12 months, short-sellers have been selling into the market, driving it lower. Short interest as a percentage of the float hit a multiyear high ahead of the release, setting the stage for a short-covering rally to amplify the upside. The question is whether the shorts can cover quickly enough, or whether a squeeze will ensue. Either way, with shorts converging and institutions accumulating, this market has little choice but to reverse course and trend higher over time.
Analyst trends also align with the potential for a robust rebound and sustained upside in this stock. While this group aggressively reduced price targets in early 2026, sentiment remains firmly pegged at Moderate Buy, with a 71% Buy-side bias and substantial upside to the consensus target. Although price target revisions are trending toward the lower end, the floor is set at $80, just above the critical support level, and most price targets place this market in the $90 to $130 range. The opportunity is for analysts to begin raising price targets again, reinvigorating retail sentiment and restoring confidence in the consensus target, which could lift shares above that level.
AI Disruption Is Good for Monday.com Business, Inside and Out
Monday.com delivered a solid Q1 earnings report, further solidifying its position in the enterprise AI ecosystem. The company produced $351.3 million in Q1 net revenue, up 24.4% year over year and 360 basis points (bps) better than expected, driven by strength across all business sizes, including new and existing clients.
Internal metrics, including net retention rate, new clients, and revenue per share, showed not only strength but also an accelerating business, with penetration up 110% year over year (YOY), driven by larger clients. Breaking it down, clients contributing more than $50,000 in annual recurring revenue grew their contribution by 116%, while those contributing more than $100,000 grew theirs by 115%. In terms of client count, those two highest tiers grew by 32% and 39%, respectively.
Margin news was also solid. The company’s improving revenue leverage and internal operations offset the impacts of cost pressures and currency headwinds, resulting in a flat adjusted operating margin compared with last year. The critical takeaway is that the company is profitable, has ample free cash flow, and significantly outperformed expectations. The $1.15 in adjusted earnings per share beat MarketBeat’s consensus figure by more than 2,000 bps, making the case that the company’s forward guidance is likely to be cautious.
That cautious guidance is bullish for this market. Executives expect revenue growth to slow to 18.5% in Q2 as comps become more difficult and to sustain a steady high-teens pace through year-end, with revenue slightly better than expected. The likely outcome is that Monday.com continues to perform well, outpacing guidance and improving its outlook again in the upcoming quarters.
Monday.com: A Balance Sheet to Envy
Monday.com’s balance sheet offers no red flags for investors, only reasons to own the stock. The Q1 highlights include reduced cash and equity, but this was offset by a robust share repurchase program, which reduced the average share count by nearly 8%. Other positives include an ample cash balance of just under $1 billion and low leverage. Long-term debt is virtually nonexistent, and the company is net cash relative to its total liabilities. In this scenario, Monday.com can continue executing its strategy and build on the Q1 momentum.
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Managing Editor’s Note: You’ve been hearing more from our friend and colleague Jason Bodner in these pages lately.
Well now, Jason and Jeff have an urgent message… a radical shift in the market is coming, and it’s coming soon.
These sorts of “regime changes” have happened three times in the past decade. Each one saw top stocks displaced by a new group of stocks that rose to prominence as the new regime took root.
Jason was a senior executive and partner on Wall Street during previous regime changes and saw up close which types of stocks soar in these times. And now, he’s reverse-engineered a way for everyday folks to get ahead of these big moves, too… while avoiding the losers.
We’ll have more for you tomorrow from Jason. Until then, read on for today’s issue from Near Future Report senior analyst Nick Rokke on where we should be focusing our attention at this point in the artificial intelligence boom…
What This Stodgy Chipmaker’s Surge Says About the AI Boom
Investors exiled the company as it missed the boom in wireless devices, lost its ability to manufacture bleeding edge semiconductors, and lost its lead as the top provider of server CPUs.
It stood by and watched NVIDIA (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) become the face of the AI revolution.
But the AI infrastructure buildout did something no one expected… The extraordinary levels of infrastructure spending meant that NVIDIA, AMD, and other semiconductors companies could sell all the processors they could manufacture.
That left data center operators, enterprises, and even consumers looking to buy Intel (INTC) central processing units (CPUs), even if they were significantly lagging in performance behind AMD. They are buying all they can from AMD, and what they can’t get from AMD, they are picking up from Intel simply because there is no other choice.
So then, Intel shares surged. From March 30 until this afternoon, shares rose from $41.19 to $121.85. That’s a 196% gain in roughly six weeks for one of the oldest, most scrutinized semiconductor companies in the world, that has demonstrated one misstep and disappointment after the other for more than a decade.
Intel is a steady, stable business with decades of operating history. These kinds of businesses aren’t supposed to nearly triple in a year, let alone just over a month. This is especially true for Intel, a company that failed so badly at its own manufacturing that it has to hire TSMC to produce its best chips.
This odd situation is a clear indication that the market is realizing that AI infrastructure demand is spreading across the entire semiconductor chain… And to all companies along that chain.
We’re seeing surging demand for CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, high bandwidth memory (HBM), networking, optical interconnects, and power conducting semiconductors.
The AI boom may have started with GPUs, but it is no longer the end all, be all.
Semis on the Rise
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index (SOX) delivered a historic run, rising every single trading day from March 31 through April 24. That’s 18 consecutive sessions higher. And across the full month of April, it closed higher in 19 out of 21 trading days.
The Near Future Report portfolio had four companies that gained over 60% on the month… And the entire portfolio gained 24% in April… in a single month. That’s an exceptional outcome and exactly what happens when we position ourselves properly in front of major technological shifts.
And the Semiconductor Index isn’t done yet. After climbing 40% in April, it’s up another 16% so far in May.
After a move like this, many people are asking themselves one question…
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Can This Move Continue?
In short, the answer is yes.
From a technical perspective, the sector is clearly extended to the upside. Using the iShares PHLX Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) as a proxy, the relative strength index (RSI) is approaching levels that have historically marked overbought conditions. In past cycles, SOXX has tended to peak when RSI reaches the high 70s.
But “overbought” is often misunderstood. In strong secular trends, assets can remain overbought for extended periods of time.
In fact, looking at prior cycles, once SOXX reaches these elevated RSI levels, it often continues to move higher for months, and in some cases more than a year. We’re only about six months into the current overbought window, which suggests the trend is not over yet.
Here’s a chart I shared with Near Future Report subscribers last week.
Now let’s turn to the fundamentals.
The world is in the middle of the largest infrastructure buildout in modern history, driven by the growth in artificial intelligence. This shift is creating an insatiable demand for compute, and that compute requires semiconductors at a scale the industry has never seen before.
The constraint today isn’t demand, it’s supply. The world simply cannot produce enough advanced chips to keep up.
We’ve talked about the increase in spending of the hyperscalers. And every quarterly earnings report comes with increased capital expenditures (capex) to build these large data centers to meet surging customer demand.
This past quarter, Microsoft laid out plans that implied they would raise their planned capex spend on the year from $140 billion to $190 billion. Meta’s raised its capex from a midpoint of $125 billion to $135 billion with a high-end forecast as much as $145 billion.
And both Amazon and Google raised their planned spend by $5 billion. And Google management took a step further and said that they expect their 2027 capex to increase significantly from the planned $185 billion spent this year.
Critics argue that this level of spending will eventually lead to excess capacity and poor returns. But that view ignores what’s happening on the ground. Even with hundreds of billions of dollars being deployed, there still isn’t enough compute to meet demand.
Just this past month, we saw GitHub pause its new Copilot Pro trials because they didn’t have enough compute to support additional users. OpenAI scaled back the rollout of its Sora video generation app to free up resources. And Anthropic has faced repeated outages with its Claude Code product as it actively rations compute during peak demand periods. This was the reason that Anthropic struck the deal with SpaceXAI to lease the computational resources of its Colossus 1 data center.
The Rise of the Agents
And the primary driver behind this surge in demand is what Jeff highlighted earlier – the rapid rise of agentic AI.
This is a fundamental shift in how software is built and how work gets done. A single skilled programmer can now deploy a team of AI agents to generate code, test features, and iterate rapidly. The human role is increasingly shifting toward supervision and validation rather than creation from scratch.
We already see AI writing the majority of new code. Google has indicated that roughly 75% of its new code is now generated by AI. Snap and Meta Platforms are both reporting figures around 65%. And Kevin Scott, an executive vice president at Microsoft, has stated that he expects that number to reach 95% within five years.
What’s happening in software development today is just the beginning. This trend will expand into every knowledge-based industry. And as it does, it will reshape the underlying hardware requirements.
And this is the main reason behind Intel’s sudden rise… And why AMD has delivered Near Future Report subscribers another double in the past six weeks.
Historically, AI training workloads required far more GPUs than CPUs. Commonly eight GPUs for every CPU. But with the rise of agentic inference, that dynamic is shifting toward parity. In many cases, we’re moving closer to a 1-to-1 ratio between GPUs and CPUs, which has major implications for demand across the semiconductor stack.
This means CPU demand will rise sharply alongside GPUs, expanding the opportunity set across the semiconductor landscape.
As the market begins to understand how AI workloads are evolving, capital is quickly rotating toward the companies best positioned to capture that demand.
When trends shift in artificial intelligence, markets don’t wait. The repricing happens quickly, and often before the broader investment community fully understands what’s taking place. That’s why our strategy is to identify these inflection points early and position accordingly.
Even after the strong gains we’ve seen this past month, we remain in the early stages of this cycle.
AI is just beginning to move from experimentation into real-world deployment. As it becomes embedded across industries, it will drive meaningful productivity gains – from software to robotics to industrial automation. We’re already seeing the first signs of that shift, and it will broaden from here.
The biggest returns won’t come from chasing what’s obvious today. They will come from owning the companies building the infrastructure and enabling these capabilities before the market fully appreciates their impact.
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There are a lot of head-scratchers in this market right now.
High oil prices, rising inflation, weakness in half the Mag Seven, and a consumer that’s running out of money by the end of the month, according to Kraft Heinz’s CEO.
And yet, if you look up at the scoreboard, the S&P 500 is still near all-time highs.
When so many things don’t add up, you have to be cautious.
Especially when you’re viewing the market through a long-term investor’s lens.
Which is exactly why this is the perfect market to be trading non-correlated strategies, the kind that don’t get blown up by a hot economic release or a Trump tweet.
The kind of trades that make their money in a window of time so short the macro chaos doesn’t even matter.
Today Was a Prime Example
PPI dropped to 1.4% at 8:30 this morning, versus 0.5% expected. That’s the hottest monthly print since March 2022. Annual PPI now sits at 6%, the highest since December 2022. Core PPI came in at 1% against a 0.4% forecast.
The futures rally evaporated. The market reversed and went red. The financial media started running their “is the rally over?” segments before the open even hit.
And while all that was happening, I was focused on something else entirely…
I was selling my ORCL calls.
The Trade
Yesterday, during the broader sell-off, Oracle (ORCL) dropped enough to trigger my Stock Flip system. The stock fell 4.2% to close at $186.65, which cleared our 3.5% trigger threshold on ORCL.
That’s the setup we hunt every single day at 3:30 PM ET. A high-quality, large-cap name overreacts to the downside. The setup hits the trigger. The trade goes in.
We bought the ORCL May 15th $182.50 calls for $6.13 in premium at yesterday’s close.
This morning, with PPI ripping the futures lower and most traders running for cover, ORCL still opened higher. Why? Because yesterday’s drop was emotion, not fundamentals. Mean reversion did exactly what it always does on these names.
We sold the calls this morning for $8.75 in premium.
That’s a 42.7% gain in less than 24 hourson a trade that was completely insulated from the hot PPI print, the futures reversal, and whatever the Fed says next.
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Here’s the thing most traders are missing: when the macro picture is this confused, betting on direction is gambling.
You don’t know if today’s hot PPI means rate hikes are back, whether the consumer is really breaking the way Whirlpool suggests, or what the Fed will do at the next meeting.
But here’s the beauty… You don’t have to know.
The Stock Flip system doesn’t care about any of that. It looks for one specific thing: a top-30 large-cap name overreacting to the downside on a single session, with a customized trigger percentage tuned to that stock’s volatility profile.
When the trigger hits, we buy short-dated calls before the close. We hold overnight. We sell on the open when mean reversion delivers.
Yesterday’s ORCL was a textbook flip. The system works because human emotion in the market hasn’t changed in 50 years… and it isn’t about to start changing tomorrow.
If you’re set on betting blind, you’d be better off taking the Over on Shohei Ohtani’s strikeout line vs the Giants tonight (6.5 if you were wondering).
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Two superstar hitters, Shohei Ohtani and Cal Raleigh, have been mired in huge slumps lately. And that means one thing: It’s time to get weird to change the juju.
Like every baseball player worth his salt knows: Sometimes, to bust out of a slump, you need to bring out the big guns. And both Ohtani and Raleigh did.
For Ohtani’s cold streak to end, he needed an ice cube. Well, THE Ice Cube. With the legendary rapper on the Dodgers broadcast in the third inning last night (Ice Cube was in the house for his own bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium), Ohtani stepped to the plate and promptly smacked his first home run since April 26.
For Raleigh, it was a nice hot postgame shower … in full uniform. The star catcher hopped in for a fully clothed shower after the Mariners’ win on Monday — at the urging of teammate Logan Gilbert — and promptly snapped his 0-fer with a pair of hits last night against the Astros.
We’ll have to wait a couple of days to see if Shohei’s bat is permanently unfrozen (he’s pitching tonight, and he’s getting the day off tomorrow), but a dried-off Raleigh and the Mariners are back in action against the Astros at 8:10 p.m. ET on MLB.TV.
SKENES’ ERA WAS 67.50. NOW IT’S 1.98
Sound the alarms — Paul Skenes is on the decline. Just look at his ERA season by season …
2024: 1.96
2025: 1.97
2026: 1.98
Just kidding (duh). But the actual reason we’re bringing this up is, the most predictable thing in baseball has happened: Skenes has an ERA under two.
It took all of eight starts for Skenes to lower his 2026 ERA from 67.50 to 1.98. Color us shocked.
Skenes’ bizarro Opening Day start, when the Mets knocked him out of the game in the first inning, might as well have happened in an alternate universe.
Skenes’ 2026 season ERA, start by start
67.50 <– Opening Day
9.53
5.25
4.00
3.27
2.48
2.91
2.36
1.98 <– Today
As of this morning, 2026 Paul Skenes now officially looks exactly like 2025 Paul Skenes, who looked exactly like 2024 Paul Skenes.
We know Skenes is the most dominant pitcher on the planet (at least until Tarik Skubal comes back), but boy, that was fast.
After Skenes’ latest gem against the Rockies — when he took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and finished with eight scoreless innings and a season-high 10 strikeouts — the final traces of that first start have disappeared.
So if you can bring yourself to look past the extremely troubling trend of Skenes’ ERA going up by 0.01 every year, here’s the good news: His 1.97 ERA since he debuted is the lowest in the Majors by a mile. Of the other 131 pitchers who’ve thrown at least 200 innings since 2024, Skubal is next-best at 2.34.
In 2024, Skenes had the lowest ERA of any pitcher who threw as many innings as he did. He had the lowest ERA again in 2025, and also had enough innings to qualify to win his first ERA title.
He doesn’t have the lowest ERA in 2026 … yet … but would you really bet against him being right back at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the year? The guy’s like clockwork.
GAMES OF THE NIGHT
A powerhouse NL matchup and two electric arms on the mound highlight tonight’s slate of games. For info on how to watch every game this season, go to MLB.com/Watch.
Shota Imanaga keeps rolling in his resurgent season (2.28 ERA in eight starts). But can the southpaw be the stopper with the Cubs on a three-game losing streak and facing the MLB-best Braves?
The Brewers are on a four-game winning streak, and now they send The Miz to the mound. Jacob Misiorowski is fresh off dominating the Yankees and setting Statcast velocity records. But the Padres are a dangerous team, in first place in the NL West ahead of the Dodgers.
Speaking of the Dodgers … it’s Shohei’s pitching day in L.A. Ohtani’s Cy Young quest continues as he takes a 0.97 ERA into tonight’s start against the rival Giants. This will be another “only pitching, no hitting” gamefor Ohtani.
64 BATTERS FACED. 1 HIT. AND IT’S … WHO??
Is a 32-year-old journeyman reliever more dominant than Mason Miller?
The numbers don’t lie … but you’ll have to see them to believe them.
Entering today, Orioles reliever Rico Garcia has pitched 20 games this season. He’s faced 64 batters. He’s allowed exactly one hit.
Who, has done what??? Yeah, we’re as baffled as hitters have been against him.
Garcia has played for seven different teams in six big league seasons. He entered this year with a 5.27 career ERA.
And yet, somehow, he is technically the most unhittable pitcher in baseball right now. Heck, he’s on one of the most unhittable stretches to start a season ever.
Garcia is the first pitcher in the Modern Era (since 1900) to allow no more than one hit over his first 20 appearances in a season.
And according to the Elias Sports Bureau, Garcia is the first pitcher in the Expansion Era (since 1961) to start off a season by allowing no more than one hit over a span of 64 batters faced.
But don’t worry, Mason Miller fans. The last pitcher to have a 64-batter, one-hit stretch at any point was indeed the Padres closer, who had a stretch like that between September 2025 and April of this season.
Brice Turang has become an under-the-radar superstar for the Brewers. Brent Maguire, who has a nice story on Turang out today, explains:
When you think of the surefire superstars currently playing baseball, there are probably 5-10 guys who immediately spring to mind. But in the case of one player, he’s quietly snuck into superstar territory dating back to last summer.
Wins Above Replacement leaders since last August
According to FanGraphs
1. Shohei Ohtani: 6.5 (3.7 hitting, 2.8 pitching)
2. (tie) Aaron Judge: 5.7
2. (tie) Bobby Witt Jr.: 5.7
4. BRICE TURANG: 4.8
5. Cristopher Sánchez: 4.8
That’s right. Since the beginning of last August, Turang has played like a legitimate top-five most valuable player in baseball, trailing only the elite trio of Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and Bobby Witt Jr. in WAR.
Turang, mainly known as a speed-and-defense player when he debuted, added more bat speed than any player last season and subsequently had the biggest year-to-year improvement from 2024 to 2025 in hard-hit rate and exit velocity. As a result, Turang enters tonight’s game with a .965 OPS and 18 home runs in 88 games since last August.
If you didn’t know much about Turang before this year, you certainly should get to know him now, with his elite production, his walk-off home run against the Yankees on Sunday and his stellar run with Team USA in this year’s World Baseball Classic.
• Kyle Schwarber has homered in five consecutive games, tying the Phillies franchise record. The MLB record is eight straight games, done by Schwarber’s own manager, Don Mattingly, as well as Ken Griffey Jr. and Dale Long.
• Staying with Philly, Zack Wheeler is back back. Wheeler reached historic levels of efficiency in making quick work of the Red Sox yesterday. He needed just 16 pitches to get through the first three innings, the fewest needed by any starter in a game this millennium.
• Speaking of aces who are back … Shane McClanahan. The Rays lefty extended his scoreless streak to 21 2/3 innings yesterday in Tampa Bay’s win over the Blue Jays, leapfrogging Cristopher Sánchez (20 2/3 innings) for the longest active streak by any MLB starter.
• Yesterday was a great day for pitch efficiency. On top of Wheeler’s start vs. the Sox, Twins right-hander Bailey Ober threw an 89-pitch shutout against the Marlins — Minnesota’s first “Maddux” since 2017. (A Maddux is a shutout on fewer than 100 pitches, named after the king of them, Greg.) Ober did this despite averaging just 88.8 mph with his fastball — and while facing off against one of the league’s hardest throwers, Eury Pérez — which only makes his Maddux even more fun.
• Mets prospect A.J. Ewing looks like the real deal. In his MLB debut yesterday, Ewing drew three walks, ripped a triple for his first Major League hit and sparked the Mets to a big win over the Tigers. He’s just 21 years old, but New York’s top position-player prospect looks like a big league-ready hitter today.
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Fructose doesn’t just add calories. New research says it actively pushes your body toward fat storage.
A new review published this week found that fructose disrupts metabolism in ways that go far beyond its caloric content — and the source doesn’t matter as much as you might think.
73g
average daily fructose intake for American adults — well above what the liver handles well
10x
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■ THIS WEEK IN NUTRITION SCIENCE
Sugar is not sugar. The type you eat determines where it goes — and what it does when it gets there.
A comprehensive review published this week confirmed what researchers have been finding for a decade: fructose is metabolically distinct from glucose and should not be treated as equivalent. When fructose reaches the liver, it bypasses the normal regulatory checkpoints that glucose must pass through — meaning the liver converts it to fat regardless of whether the body needs energy or not. This is why high-fructose diets consistently produce fatty liver disease even in the absence of significant caloric excess.
The sources that matter most: high-fructose corn syrup in processed foods and beverages, agave syrup (90% fructose — the highest of any common sweetener), fruit juice (same sugar load as soda without the fiber), and in large quantities, whole fruit consumed as a dominant part of the diet. The fiber in whole fruit slows absorption significantly — but it doesn’t eliminate the fructose load.
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■ PRACTICAL SWAPS — REDUCING FRUCTOSE WITHOUT ELIMINATING SWEETNESS01 Replace agave and honey with pure maple syrup or coconut sugar — lower fructose ratio02 Eat whole fruit — never juice it. Fiber is what separates fruit from sugar delivery03 Check any “sports drink,” flavored yogurt, or sauce label for high-fructose corn syrup04 Berries over tropical fruit — blueberries, strawberries, raspberries have far lower fructose content
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Trump meets Xi in Beijing today — Iran is the central agenda item
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S&P held near record highs despite hot CPI — Nvidia reports May 20
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