Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Wednesday baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: This is just a one-week swap with Kiley because he was going to be unavailable today

Jeff Sullivan: Also many apologies for the especially absurd delay — podcast ran overtime

James: Where will be AL wild card game be played?

Jeff Sullivan: I think it would be a lot of fun to have the game played in Oakland, but I don’t see the A’s actually catching the Yankees (or the Astros for that matter)

Meg Rowley: Hello, and welcome to the chat. What a fun bit of baseball we’ve had, and likely will continue to have, and…

tb.25: Sad King Felix is sad to think about 🙁

Meg Rowley: Well, drat.

stever20: Rockies next 2 weeks get 3 with Arizona, 3 with San Francisco, and then after 3 with LA get 3 more with Arizona.  are we going to see them finally pick up their 1st division title ever?

Meg Rowley: I… I don’t really think so.

Meg Rowley: I still think the Dodgers will manage this somehow, and for reasons that might not be especially smart, I believe in that D-backs team more. How is the Rockies offense like this? Just, how?

Dan Szymborski: It’s party time!*

Dan Szymborski: * Does not indicate actual party

Matt: Wow, Dan. Way to give us a good…5 minutes of queue time.

Dan Szymborski: I was on the piano and got distracted for time!

Dan Szymborski: Then I was like HOLY CRAP IT’S GOTTA BE NEAR NOON

Tony: What do you think about the MLB’s decision to move Cubs/Nationals to Thursday in DC?  Cubs will have scheduled game 30 days in a row and there might be a hurricane affecting the region.  Why not play the game on Oct 1?

Kiley McDaniel: Sorry for the delay! Was going back and forth with offers/counters on a house, so that took slight precedent over this baseball chat

Kiley McDaniel: So, for those that haven’t seen it yet, I posted something today breaking down Dylan Cease (CHW), Matt Manning (DET) and Brendan McKay (TB) and which of those three types of players is normally underrated by list season

Kiley McDaniel: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/should-we-adjust-how-we-evaluate-pitch…

Kiley McDaniel: Now to your questions

squeeze bunt: What do you think is the best predictor of a pitcher taking a step forward with command?  Do you think there is a correlation between height/length and command?

Kiley McDaniel: Athleticism is the best single direct comp for command we have, but it’s usually a combination of factors. I’d tend to bet on longer-limbed elite athletes that are growing into their frame in the mid-20’s to improve, particularly if they aren’t a high 90’s type that’s always trying to throw it through the backstop

Meg Rowley: Happy first day back at work after the long weekend!

Meg Rowley: I hope this chat eases everyone back in to their ho-hum day time responsibilities.

Morbo: Good afternoon!

Meg Rowley: It’s still technically morning here.

Shaun A.: Hey Meg, do you think Ohtani will still be pitching 2 years down the road?

Meg Rowley: I’m trying to decide how to deal with “still” in this question.

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: And welcome to what is almost a long holiday weekend!

Jeff Sullivan: Thank you for already mentally checking out from work so that you can participate in this exchange

Ozzie Ozzie Albies Free: What do you think? Was it a foul ball or a foul bunt?

Jeff Sullivan: I lean pretty strongly toward foul ball. I do not believe that Lorenzen had intent to bunt that pitch

Eric A Longenhagen: Hey there, let’s chat. Last Daily Prospect Notes of the year will be out later today and I’ll have Fall League roster stuff at some point, too. They’re exciting this year, as always.

Rosie: who’s the biggest sleeper in the AZL that could become a big spec one day?

Eric A Longenhagen: Depends on what kind of perspective you have. Reivaj Garcia isn’t a sleeper down here but he might be to you. I’ll say Wilbis Santiago. Old for AZL but really loose, quick hands.

Joe: Best prospect from this group? Neidert, Palumbo, Duran, Thorpe, Widener, Santillan, and poche

Eric A Longenhagen: One of those guys is a 50 FV on The Board, the rest are not (yet)

regular: DeShawn Knowles has comparable slash to Wander (albeit weaker ratios). What kind of upside are we looking at? Shane Victorino a decent comp?

Kiley McDaniel: Coming to you live from my desk while Scout chews on her dinosaur toy in the next room, it’s chat time

Kiley McDaniel: I went to a bunch of games in the last week, cleaning up some needed looks on local prospects.

Kiley McDaniel: Only non Florida State League game was Jacksonville (AA Marlins) and Birmingham (AA White Sox) where I was going for Dylan Cease but got a bunch of other guys as well

Kiley McDaniel: FSL looks included affiliates of MIN (Royce, Kirilloff, Brusdar, Blankenhorn), ATL (Contreras, Waters, Ynoa, Wentz, Davidson),  NYY (Florial, Deivi Garcia, D. Castillo, Gilliam), DET (Fulmer rehab, Manning, Clemens, Castro),  CIN (Fairchild, Isabel), PHI (Llovera, Moniak, Gamboa, Brito, Falter), TBR (McKay, Brujan, Lowe, Fraley, Padlo, Gray, Palacios)

Kiley McDaniel: Anyway that took longer than I expected to flip thru my notes and compile, but those are the guys I saw recently if any of them or their teammates are of special interest

Kiley McDaniel: And there’s a post going up shortly of the prospect just added to the board