| 2:03 |
: 2:00: A Time for Chats.
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| 2:04 |
: What do you make of Joseph Nicholas Gallo?
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| 2:04 |
: A guy as good as you can be with only one real plus skill but not enough to actually be good
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| 2:04 |
: Best chicken wings in Cincinnati?
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| 2:04 |
: Couldn’t say.
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| 2:05 |
: I’m in Dayton more than Cincinnati, but in neither have I found really great wings yet. Maybe it’s the local style
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| 12:00 |
: Good morning! Welcome to the chat.
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| 12:00 |
: I am not Travis, but fear not: he’ll be here tomorrow, and back to regularly scheduled programming next week.
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| 12:00 |
: What do the Mariners do about 2B now?
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| 12:01 |
: Ugh.
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| 12:02 |
: I think for the moment you’re looking at some combination of the non-catching Romine, and possibly Taylor Motter and (sighs heavily) maybe Gordon Beckham sharing duties there.
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| 12:02 |
: It sounds like they are reticent to move Dee Gordon off center, but I’ll be curious to see how long that holds up.
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| 9:03 |
: Hello friends |
| 9:04 |
: Welcome to Friday baseball chat |
| 9:04 |
: Carlos Santana has been on fire lately. Looking at his rolling averages…was he walking too much (and not capitalizing on hittable pitches)? |
| 9:04 |
: My understanding is that, early on, Santana was basically just hitting into terrible luck. Mike Petriello wrote about it at MLB.com. His xwOBA was always strong from the get-go |
| 9:05 |
: Is this a breakout season for Maikel Franco? |
| 9:05 |
: Probably not |
| 2:01 |
: Howdy from a Morristown, NJ Starbucks where I’ve stopped on the way to see Lenny Torres (which I’m growing worried is going to be rained out). |
| 2:02 |
: Kiley will be joining momentarily, but I’m gonna get rolling now as I will probably hve to bounce sooner than Kiley to get to the game. |
| 2:02 |
: Wasn’t there a new mock promised at some point soon?! |
| 2:03 |
: Early next week after I’ve seen who’s at the games I’m seeing this weekend and we make some more cals. |
| 2:03 |
: And I just got home to Orlando where I’m scrambling to run errands and settle in for some serious content putout (and also UCF/Oklahoma this weekend) |
| 2:03 |
: Any chance the Braves go with Kelenic at 8? |
| 12:02 |
: Good morning or afternoon, folks, and welcome to another edition of my Thursday chat. If you saw the subtitle of this week’s chat, you’ll understand that I’m in mourning for the impending loss of my favorite neighborhood restaurant — the default place where my wife and I take family and friends who trek to our corner of Brooklyn for a casual night out. https://ny.eater.com/2018/5/9/17336048/ganso-ramen-closing-downtown-br…
The moral of the story is, hug your favorite neighborhood restaurant, because one day it won’t be there no matter how often you go. |
| 12:03 |
: What is your take on the Harvey-Mesoraco swap?
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| 12:05 |
: 1. “Be careful what you wish for, Matt Harvey.” While he was within his rights to reject the Triple A assignment, he’s now about to toil in a place that’s much rougher for pitchers, particularly ones with gopher problems, and he won’t be anywhere close to the postseason.
2. A fair trade of damaged goods for both sides. |
| 12:05 |
: My yankees are on a tear right now, and most of that relates to what I thought was our greatest need. Pitching. What does German look like as a starter going forward? and how sustainable is CC’s FIP defying heroics?
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| 12:08 |
: Travis Sawchik took a good look at German a couple days ago. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/domingo-german-demands-our-attention/ Obviously, Sunday’s six no-hit innings was a promising development, and he does seem to have a mix that should help him survive as a starter. As for CC, he’s not gonna keep up a sub-2.00 ERA but he’s still a very useful starter. After this chat I’m heading up to Yankee Stadium for tonight’s outing against the Red Sox and planning to write about him unless something bigger happens.
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| 12:09 |
: It seems like a number of players who are sporting career-best or near career-best hard hit rates are struggling. Marcell Ozuna, and the Santanas, Carlos and Domingo, come to mind. Do you have any ideas for why that is the case?
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| 12:00 |
: Good morning! Welcome to the chat.
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| 12:01 |
: Let’s dive in with a bunch of sad Mariners questions! Yay!
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| 12:01 |
: How many starting pitchers on the Mariners end the year with a higher WAR than Edwin Diaz?
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| 12:01 |
: Well, Paxton…
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| 12:02 |
: mayyyyybe Marco Gonzales if he can ever figure out how to a third time through the order.
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| 12:02 |
: The pitching really isn’t very good.
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| 2:00 |
: DAMMIT ITS MAY NOW
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| 2:00 |
: How bout them Giants?One thing I’ve noticed going on baseball savant is the xwOBA for almost every hitter suggest they’re facing bad luck (even Belt, Posey, Hundley) and if they were to come to the norm they would have arguably best lineup in NL, however the reverse is true with the pitching staff. Could the park and defense be playing a role in this? Or should I still expect their wOBA to move toward the xwOBA over time?
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: I get similar, though far from the extreme that they’d be the best lineup in the NL. I have my own method that does take into account park.
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: Heck, just by runs created, they’re missing half-a-run a game you’d expect.
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| 2:02 |
: Perez, Goldschmidt, Zimmerman, Bruce, Taylor, Yelich, Desmond, Castillo, Weaver, and Jansen: are they conspiring to ruin my fantasy team?
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| 2:02 |
: Naturally, yes.
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| 12:05 |
: Greetings …
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| 12:05 |
: Happy Monday
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| 12:05 |
: Glad you are hanging out here and choosing to drain some of America’s workplace productivity
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| 12:05 |
: Let’s get started
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| 12:06 |
: Please provide hope during these dark times. Can Conforto, Bruce, and Cespedes catch fire? Will Degrom return and keep rolling? And please tell me Rosario is not a bust.
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| 12:07 |
: Let’s give Conforto some time. We didn’t even expect to be back at this point. Degrom avoided a worst-case scenario. But the Braves and Phillies might be here to stay for awhile
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| 9:05 |
: Hello friends |
| 9:05 |
: Welcome to Friday baseball chat |
| 9:05 |
: Hello, Jeff. Thank you for chatting. |
| 9:06 |
: Hello john. Thank you for chatting, because without any of you, this would be pathetic |
| 9:06 |
: You have to tell me what is going on with Nick Markakis. He has the third highest WAR in the NL. |
| 9:06 |
: You can never really dig too deep on these things in a live-chat format, but Markakis has such a fun profile right now |
| 2:02 |
: Hey, everyone. Gotta grab a coffee and tweet a link, so will be back momentarily.
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| 2:04 |
: Okay, I’m back.
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| 2:05 |
: Any word on who the Mets are in on post round 1?
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| 2:06 |
: No and I doubt we narrow it to anything more than a specific classification of player by draft day. They’re not really in position to target anyone specific with their second pick, too many cop picks ahead of them.
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| 2:06 |
: Thoughts on Caleb Feguson?
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| 2:06 |
: above avg curveball, fastball is average, change a hair below. An up and down arm as far as we’re concerned.
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