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FanGraphs Audio: Ben Clemens, Live from a San Francisco Airbnb

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May 4, 2019

Episode 860

I welcome FanGraphs contributing writer Ben Clemens (@_Ben_Clemens) to the program to offer our listeners a chance to get to know one of the site’s new writers. We discuss Ben’s former life in finance, his cross-country move, his love of the St. Louis Cardinals, and his approach to baseball writing and watching. Plus, we marvel at Jackie Bradley Jr.’s very poor start, and Cody Bellinger’s very good start.

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 4/30/19

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April 30, 2019
2:01
cavebird: Do you think they should allow Carter Kieboom to get the Boxburger exception to the no emojis rule for player’s weekend?  And if he does, what if his brother is also up that weekend?  Of course, they would have the same name on the back of their uniforms in normal games, too.
2:01
Meg Rowley: I really can’t imagine caring what a player puts on his players’ weekend jersey so long as it wasn’t a slur?
2:02
Greg: The top 5 teams in defensive runs above average are the Giants, Dodgers, Padres, Diamondbacks, and Rockies. Is this a weird coincidence? https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0…
2:02
Meg Rowley: Given some of the individual guys those teams have, it isn’t super surprising, but also, I would warn against looking at a month’s worth of defensive data and thinking it’s anything so meaningful.
2:03
The Chop is for Chumps: Meg, what do you make of all the young, superhyped, Atlanta arms flopping at the big stage i.e. Kyle Wright, Touki Toussaint, Bryse Wilson, Luiz Ghohara, and Sean Newcomb?
2:03
Meg Rowley: That pitching is really hard and that there is a reason that we were all a little nervous about a pitching-forward approach to building the farm?

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 4/23/19

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April 23, 2019
2:00
Meg Rowley: Hello all, and welcome to the chat. We’ll get started in just a second here.
2:02
Gene: I’m very bored in Economics. Will the Mets pitching be fine?
2:02
Meg Rowley: Hmmm maybe?
2:03
henryv: Best former Seattle baseball team name: Pilots, Hustlers, Yannigans, Clamdiggers, Siwashes, Chinooks, or Turks?
2:03
Meg Rowley: Clamdiggers or Chinooks imo.
2:03
CamdenWarehouse: I was happy to hear you are on the right side of the almond/soy/etc milk vs. juice debate

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FanGraphs Audio: Kiley McDaniel Welcomes the Night King

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April 17, 2019

Episode 859

FanGraphs Audio welcomes back Kiley McDaniel, prospect analyst, to discuss all things scouting, including Kiley’s recent trip to Florida to see potential draftees in the 2019 draft class and the biggest risers and fallers on the draft section of The BOARD. We also engage in a little bit of contract extension talk, particularly as it pertains to Ozzie Albies, and the concept of bummers. And finally, we indulge a little non-baseball talk, offering our spoiler-laden assessments of the new season of Game of Thrones.

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 4/16/19

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April 16, 2019
2:01
Meg Rowley: Hello all, and welcome to the chat. Allow me a moment to schedule a post, and then we’ll get started.
2:09
Meg Rowley: Alright
2:09
Meg Rowley: I am here
2:09
Meg Rowley: Thank you for your patience!
2:09
dmitry: I get the Yanks, they’ve been killed with injuries.. but why are the Sox so bad so far?
2:10
Meg Rowley: Turns out that when your pitching is shaky it can be tricky to win baseball games.

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FanGraphs Audio: Dylan Higgins Allows Exactly One Swear

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April 12, 2019

Episode 858

FanGraphs Audio returns to welcome Dylan Higgins, FanGraphs editor and important podcast person, to the program for the very first time. Dylan and I engage in a little bit of editor talk, and also recount some of Dylan’s experiences as a baseball intern in Australia, and with the Pacific Coast League. We also discuss the matter of minor league fandom, and the proper etiquette for those who attend baseball meetups.

Warning: this episode contains exactly one unbleeped swear, which appears around the 8 minute 38 second mark, and is well telegraphed in advance, but which will scar and alter young listeners.

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 4/9/19

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April 9, 2019
2:00
Meg Rowley: Hello and welcome to the chat!
2:00
Estuary Ruiz: Hey Meg! Are there any FG meetups scheduled for this summer?
2:01
Meg Rowley: We will definitely do a meetup in Boston before Saberseminar, as is our tradition.
2:02
Meg Rowley: And it is sounding increasingly like we will do a meetup in Cleveland around the All-Star game, as we’ll already have a number of folks in town for Futures Game stuff
2:02
Meg Rowley: more details/certainty on that in the weeks to come but we will be sure to keep everyone posted!
2:03
Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe: If Trevor Rosenthal pitched to Chris Davis in an empty forest, would it make a sound?

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 4/2/19

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April 2, 2019
2:00
Meg Rowley: Hi all,
2:00
Meg Rowley: and welcome to the chat!
2:00
Meg Rowley: Going to be a short one for me today, as there are Things to Edit and such.
2:00
henryv: Describe your feeling about this tweet:

Good morning and #GoMariners.
2 Apr 2019
2:00
Meg Rowley: Baseball is fun, and Mallex Smith is fun, and I like fun.
2:01
Knucklebear: On an excitement scale of 1 – 10. Should be Padres fan base be at an 11 or higher?

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2019 Opening Day Very Long Chat

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March 28, 2019
12:41
Avatar Jay Jaffe: Happy Opening Day 2019 v2.0, and welcome to our Very Long Chat. Craig Edwards, Paul Sporer and I are warming up at our respective keyboards, practicing our quips and disses, and crunching all kinds of numbers in order to scientifically predict every aspect of the baseb — wait, scrap that last one, it still can’t be one in 2019. In any event, we’ll get things started here around 1 pm, give or take, but feel free to fill the queue with your questions in the meantime.
12:48
Craig Edwards: We have lineups for actual baseball games that start during my normal waking hours, and in 15 minutes, we are going to be able to watch those games. Get excited.
12:53
Craig Edwards:

Which early game are you watching?
Orioles-Yankees (21.8% | 44 votes)
 
Mets-Nationals (65.6% | 132 votes)
 
Both (12.4% | 25 votes)
 
Total Votes: 201
12:56
FrodoBeck: I have done nothing at work all day and I blame baseball
12:56
Craig Edwards: Your afternoon doesn’t look much better from a productivity perspective.
12:58
Craig Edwards: Yankee stadium’s pump up music for the National Anthem is Daft Punk.

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FanGraphs 2019 Staff Predictions

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March 28, 2019

There were times this winter when it felt like the offseason would never end. But end it has, and on this, the morning of Opening Day, we engage in our annual tradition of asking our staff to open themselves up to future public ridicule and predict the year in baseball. Some of these predictions will prove to be prescient; others will make their forecaster feel a little silly. Last year, we had the American League playoff picture pretty well pegged, with the exception of the A’s. Washington’s collapse? Not so much. The Rookies of the Year? Got ’em. Either league’s Cy Young winner? Nope! That’s ok, though. Baseball is best when it is energetic, even a touch frenzied.

Folks from FanGraphs, RotoGraphs, and The Hardball Times weighed in; here are the results.

The National League

The National League gets to have all the fun. Of course, some things are as you’d expect. The Dodgers are still anticipated to be a powerhouse. Only two of the 32 ballots cast exclude them from a postseason berth entirely, and they actually received one more vote to take their division than Cleveland did, despite their division opponents being projected for an average of 77.25 wins vs. Cleveland’s 72.5.

The Marlins look quite hopeless. The Giants don’t look a ton better. The Padres have not yet arrived. Read the rest of this entry »


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