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Anthony Rizzo at 0.98 is the single strongest pull in Jake Arrieta's top 10 — and the cluster around him tells a tight, coherent story. The shape is two-peak: a dense band of Cubs-era teammates occupies the top six positions, then the graph opens into a second, broader neighborhood of baseball media and sports-adjacent content.
The first peak is almost entirely fellow athletes. Anthony Rizzo (0.98), Kyle Schwarber (0.97), Kris Bryant (0.97), and David Ross (0.96) are all Athletes by subcategory, joined by the Chicago Cubs organization itself (0.95) and Javier Báez (0.93). Six of the top ten neighbors share Arrieta's own subcategory — the audience overlap here is as same-kind as it gets. The lone exception in the upper cluster is Joe Maddon (0.85), classified as a Professional rather than an Athlete, but clearly part of the same organizational cohort.
The second peak begins around 0.82 and shifts category. Nick Swardson (0.82, Comedian) and MLB Trade Rumors (0.82, Website) mark the transition, followed by Kathleen Zellner (0.80, Professional) and Big Ten Network (0.79, TV Channel). This lower tier is more diffuse — sports media, a comedian, a legal professional — suggesting the audience extends beyond Cubs fandom into a wider Midwestern sports-and-entertainment orbit.
The two-peak structure reflects an audience anchored in one specific team era, with a secondary layer of general baseball and regional sports consumption.
