Kiley McDaniel: Hello fellow humans lets chat baseball

Tommy N.: Any thoughts on Lucchesi’s first few mlb starts?

Matt: Joey Lucchesi: Is he good? Think he can stick in a major league rotation?

Kiley McDaniel: Didn’t watch any of his MLB starts yet but saw him as an amateur and it’s basically the same: solid average stuff, above feel/command and tons of funk/deception. That normally plays up first time through the league them plays medium for a bit them plays down, but the down part sometimes takes a few years.

Kiley McDaniel: We were the high guys on Lucchesi, made him an other 50 FV on the top 100 here: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2018-top-100-prospects/

Kiley McDaniel: So he was something like 115-135 overall for us before the season started. So he’s something like a ready-made fourth starter, may be a little better than that for stretches, like right now.

Meg Rowley: Hello! And welcome to the chat!

Alec Asher Wojciechowski: Hi Eric! Is there any prospect that is showing something new this year to elevate their status?

Meg Rowley: [extreme Janet from The Good Place voice] Not an Eric.

Wes: I’m confused by the chat time changes. Wasn’t the purpose of you moving to Tuesday to break up Kiley and Eric’s prospect chats? Instead they are Wed and Thur now. Still back-to-back. Not upset since all chats are great, just confused.

Meg Rowley: The issue was more that back-to-back days on the schedule that had (at the time) only one chat were prospect focused.

Meg Rowley: So if there was a non-prospect EMERGENCY that required chat coverage (uhhhh the Astros decide to all cobble shoes?) on a Tuesday, we theoretically might not get to it until Thursday.

Dan Szymborski:

Dan Szymborski: Carson didn’t start the queue up early, so quickly ask like 50 stupid questions so that we can get some padding.

Dan Szymborski: All by myself

Dan Szymborski: Don’t wanna be

Dan Szymborski: All by myself

Dan Szymborski: That’s all the lyrics I know

Travis Sawchik: Howdy

Travis Sawchik: How was your week?

Travis Sawchik: How was Ohtani’s (and Bryce Harper and Didi’s) week?

Travis Sawchik: Let’s talk about it …

Chris: Is there anything you see, besides bad luck, behind the Indians miserable BABIP?

Travis Sawchik: Mostly bad luck and awful weather

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

Bork: Hello, friend!

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

Daniel Vogelbach: By how much do I have to outperform Healy to become the starter or at least platoon full time?

Jeff Sullivan: Not sure you’ll even get the chance, at first. The Mariners appear committed to giving Healy a long leash, and they won’t replace him until it’s clear that he’s bad or that Vogelbach is amazing

Meg Rowley: Hello, and welcome to the chat!

Meg Rowley: As those of you who read Eric’s Tuesday chat may have noticed, we are going to be swapping days starting next week to make sure the prospect chats are broken up by non-prospect chats.

Meg Rowley: Though you should all feel ok asking Eric and Kiley non-prospect questions. They know a lot about this baseball thing.

Nostradamaso Marte: How’s your Ichiro reunion feeling?

Meg Rowley: That home run rob may have justified the whole deal, honestly. And then he followed it up with an infield single!

Meg Rowley: Such Ichiro! I still think that signing is going to end uncomfortably, but it has been ok so far.

Kiley McDaniel: I’m here, ready to chat and the pupper is taking a nap behind me no one wake her up

MD: Does Miguel Andujar’s glove project to anywhere off the hot corner? How would his bat project for those positions?

Kiley McDaniel: He can basically play a competent version of any spot on the field, tools-wise, but he hasn’t played many others places. I’m sure he’ll be fine in a corner outfield but long-term he should play 3B.

josh: do you think kyle tucker is ready for the majors now? how should the astros shuffle their OF when he’s up?

Kiley McDaniel: I’d like to see a little more upper level reps but he’s closer than you think. Stealth ROY candidate, though he’ll need a spot to open up since there isn’t really one right now.

JJJones: What do you think about Jahmai Jones going back to second base?  Does he have the skill set to handle it?

Eric A Longenhagen: Hi, everyone. Sorry I’m a few ticks late.

joe: What’s Vogelbach’s ultimate ceiling if his swing changes actually help?

Eric A Longenhagen: Hold on, looking to see exactly what he’s changed

Eric A Longenhagen: AH, okay. here: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/a-changed-to-his-swing-an…

Eric A Longenhagen: My main issue has been: He doesn’t hunt pitches he can drive. If he starts doing that, sure, that’ll be better

Tacoby Bellsbury: Nice FG article on Jordan Hicks today. Does he have a future in the rotation, or is high-end bullpen role his destiny at this point?

Travis Sawchik: Greetings!

Travis Sawchik: Since we last spoke, real baseball games have been played

Travis Sawchik: I think we are all feeling better …

TMW: Miguel Sano’s hands look higher again like they were in 2016. K rates back this up (8K in 14PA). He’s gotten two hits (HRs) but was pretty late on one of them. Am I imagining it?

Travis Sawchik: I will have to take a look, but for Sano to truly be an offensive force he needs to get those K rates down a few ticks

James: Could Altuve and Correa be the best middle infield combo ever?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to delayed Friday baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Podcasting before this chat is my new excuse

Charlie: When do the 2018 stats go up?

Jeff Sullivan: Should be up already. I was browsing a few of them earlier

Matty P: Cruz homerun off Kluber was an 88mph Cutter. This concern you or just first start of the year?