Maybe you can’t get enough baseball. Maybe you want to mourn the Giants’ season. Maybe you’re a West Coast yinzer! Maybe you just love Joey Votto. Or maybe you want to drink good beer and talk beer or baseball with the FanGraphs and BeerGraphs crew. We might even have an unlisted guest or two show up.

Public House, San Francisco, 4-9pm PT (Time subject to change due to schedule.)

Eno Sarris (FanGraphs/BeerGraphs)
Matt Hunter (FanGraphs/BeerGraphs)
Wendy Thurm (FanGraphs)
Carmen Kiew (Bay Area Sports Guy)
King Kaufman (Bleacher Report)
Erik Malinowski (Buzzfeed Sports)
Eric Freeman (The Classical)
Noah Jackson (First Base Foundation, former scout)
Daniel Zarchy (Giants Pod)
Patrick Newman (NPBTracker)
Jeff McClure (Drake’s Brewing)
Owen Poindexter (BeerGraphs)
Jen Rizzo (BeerGraphs)

About half-way through May, something strange was going on in Jake McGee’s world. The 27-year-old reliever was giving up hits and home runs to left-handed hitters. For a lefty with 96 mph gas and a wicked slider, that was out of the norm. But, as most pitchers do over the course of the season, he made an adjustment and figured the problem out. If there ever was one to begin with.

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Look at the numbers for Robert Coello’s third pitch and you might not get it. It’s a forkball. It gets a below-average swinging-strike rate for a breaking pitch. It’s a ball half the time. It looks flawed. But then you watch Coello pitch, and this happens.

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You won’t get Mike Trout to say he should win the Most Valuable Player award this year because his Wins Above Replacement total is higher than another player’s. But if you listen closely to him describing his game, you will hear the basic constructs for the argument that can be made in his favor. It’s a simple one.

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According to David Lennon at Newsday, it looks like changes are coming to the posting system that allows Japanese clubs to, in effect, sell their players to American teams. Though this knowledge comes from anonymous sources, the alterations seem to fit an important facet of successful negotiations: there’s something in them for every party at the table.

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Brandon McCarthy has famously embraced sabermetrics before. Learning about ground balls and efficiency helped save his career. That doesn’t mean that the struggle to learn and improve doesn’t continue. And, after we talked last week, it seems the pitcher is running up on the limits of sabermetric research. Or at least, he is identifying places where execution trumps theory.

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