Eric A Longenhagen: Howdy, everyone. Hope you’ve all had a pleasant week. I’m enjoying the last little bit of mild weather here in Tempe and looking forward to conference tournament play.

Eric A Longenhagen: Brewers list went up yesterday:

Eric A Longenhagen: Milwaukee Brewers Top 45 Prospects | FanGraphs Baseball

Eric A Longenhagen: I’ll probably keep things tight to an hour today. I’m flying to Florida next Friday and I’m going to chat earlier in the day, so be on the lookout for that next week.

Eric A Longenhagen: Okay, let’s address your many queries.

Rockies Optimist: Adael Amador looks not great, but maybe its the Rockies stink? Also, Jared Thomas/Kyle Karros legit? Karros seems more floor and Thomas more ceiling.

Dan Szymborski: Ah, we meet again, Fangraphiers!

M: Better stash? Cowser or Meadows?

Dan Szymborski: Cowser, I think. You’re not rewarded for the best stuff Parker Meadows does!

.330/50: I looked it up on stat muse, and, weirdly, there are seven seasons where a player hit 50+ hr with a .349+ BA. And there are seven where a player hit 50+ with a .329+ BA. Barry in 01 was at .328 and one of Foxx’s two biggest years was .349. So… I know Zips doesn’t think AJ can keep THIS up, but given he’s been hitting like .370 for more than a year now, where would you rank the season all time if he “slumps” to finish the year at like a .335/.440/.712 with 50+ (again, measurably worse than he has been over the past year)? To me it would basically just be Barry and his special sauce since expansion ahead of it.

Dan Szymborski: I can’t give an exact ranking off-hand, but it’s an absolutely monster season, and I think it would cement his status as a Sandy Koufax-esque Hall of Famer if something bad happened.

Dan Szymborski: I would personally argue he’s already at that level, but I strongly suspect I’m much more willing to vote for a dizzying-peak/shortish career guy than most writers are

Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks! Welcome to another edition of my Tuesday chat, and apologies if the non-standard start time threw anybody for a loop; I needed to take care of some business after filing today’s piece a bit later than usual — a quick look at Jonathan Aranda’s breakout that took me a bit longer to complete than I expected because I had colleague Davy Andrews over for beers last night as ww watched some baseball. Anyway, that should go up at 1 pm ET.

Yesterday I wrote about Javier Báez’s rebound after two dismal seasons in Detroit. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-new-look-javier-baez-is-fun-again/. On Friday I took a look at some statistical anomalies within extra-innings play thus far this season https://blogs.fangraphs.com/weird-stuff-is-going-on-in-extra-innings-m…

Jay Jaffe: Anyway, on with the show!

You have weakened: Your reverse-jinx powers are no match for the supernova that is Judge. I swear, every night he doesn’t show up in the highlights, I’m like, well, guess he had a bad game. (Looks at last night’s box score – 2-3 with a double and 2 walks)

Jay Jaffe: We’re seeing one of the best runs — if not the best — by a hitter in the 21st century. He’s hitting .414/.500/.783 (255 wRC+) six weeks into the season! Caught a few of his at-bats in the last couple of days and it’s like he’s using a pool cue out there to place the ball where the fielders ain’t.

Sodo Mojo: Who ends up with more Career WAR Julio Rodriguez or Aaron Judge.  I don’t think Julio ever approaches Judges single season rate stats but got a 4 year head start.

Jay Jaffe: I’m gonna go with the guy who looks like he might be on his way to his third 10-win season out of four.

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning, everyone. I got my courvoisier right here, what seems to be your query?

Guest: The Aces scratching Lawlar right before first pitch and then not giving a reason after the game is nasty work.

Eric A Longenhagen: I didn’t see that, that’s fun. He’s hit a ball harder already this year than he did in each of the last two seasons, there’s a real chance he’s taken a leap.

Jeb: When does Bubba Chandler come up? Not sure there is much more for him to prove in AAA at this point. Probably not Skenes level good, but level below good?

Eric A Longenhagen: If I had to bet, I’d say he comes up late enough to retain rookie eligibility next season.

bk: If Nimmala can sustain this level of K rate, how much does that improve his prospect stock?

Dan Szymborski: It’s time for chat!

Dan Szymborski: https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1852454076229022034

Dan: Aaron. Judge.

You Buying…: Wilyer Abreu’s start? His k-rate is a smooch above where you’d probably like it to be but the underlying metrics seem to really support this breakout. ZiPS was already the most bullish projection system on him and hopefully that continues, for my fantasy team’s sake.

dylan: Wilyer Abreu is having an MVP caliber season and it isn’t close!!!!!

Dan Szymborski: He has an above-average contact rate!