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Dave Cameron FanGraphs Chat – 10/1/17

12:02
Dave Cameron: Happy Game 7 Day everyone!

12:02
Dave Cameron: Should be a fun night.

12:02
Dave Cameron: I’m on live blog duty tonight, so come back and join me as we watch two great teams fight it out for the title tonight.

12:03
Dave Cameron: We’ll start this chat in a few minutes.

12:05
Charlie Morton: When am I pitching tonight?

12:07
Dave Cameron: Let’s say McCullers goes 4-5. Keuchel is probably first guy out of the pen, and he’s probably good for 2. That leaves 2-3 innings for some combo of Morton, Peacock, and Verlander, my guess. Peacock is probably the “closer”, so maybe Morton gets the 7th?

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2017 World Series Game 6 Live Blog

5:05

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

5:05

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to 2017 World Series Game 6 Live Blog

5:05

AdamZ: Happy Halloween!

5:05

Hannah Hochevar: Happy Halloween!

5:06

Jeff Sullivan: Happy Halloween. I just remembered to turn our porch light off so nobody tries to interrupt my World Series viewing with handout requests

5:06

botchatheny: this is gonna be a real corker eh

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Eric Longenhagen Spooky Prospects Chat

12:18
Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning, folks. Lots to squeeze in on my end today (I think I get Taylor Hearn and Tyler Beede in Scottsdale today) so we’ll probably hold tight to an hour. Let’s begin

12:19
Philip: Do you prefer austin Allen to Josh Naylor?

12:19
Eric A Longenhagen: Nope

12:19
Evan Longoria : Do you know much about Ronaldo Hernandez?

12:20
Eric A Longenhagen: Strong 19-year old Colombian catcher in Tampa’s system. Has power, catching is a work-in-progress but that’s fine because he’s a converted infielder. He made Rays list last offseason.

12:21
Chris: How good will Florial, Abreu, and Estrada be?

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2017 World Series Game 5 Live Blog

5:07
Paul Swydan:

Who will win tonight’s game?

Astros (24.5% | 74 votes)
 
Dodgers (64.9% | 196 votes)
 
I can’t decide! (10.5% | 32 votes)
 

Total Votes: 302
5:07
Paul Swydan:

In your opinion, which game has been the best so far?

Game 1 (5.8% | 17 votes)
 
Game 2 (81.0% | 236 votes)
 
Game 3 (5.1% | 15 votes)
 
Game 4 (4.1% | 12 votes)
 
I can’t decide! (3.7% | 11 votes)
 

Total Votes: 291
5:09
Paul Swydan:

Which game will end up with the highest avg. SP Game Score v. 2.0 (GSv2)?

Current leader Game 4 – 69.8 (Morton 76.8, Wood 62.8) (32.7% | 81 votes)
 
Tonight (Kershaw-Keuchel) (42.5% | 105 votes)
 
Game 6 (Verlander-TBD/Hill) (12.5% | 31 votes)
 
Game 7 (TBD-TBD) (1.6% | 4 votes)
 
I can’t decide! (10.5% | 26 votes)
 

Total Votes: 247
7:37
Paul Swydan:

How many minutes after 8 pm will tonight’s game start?

Zero – it’ll start right on time! (4.8% | 9 votes)
 
1-5 minutes late (9.2% | 17 votes)
 
6-10 minutes late (11.4% | 21 votes)
 
11-15 minutes late (21.1% | 39 votes)
 
16+ minutes late (53.2% | 98 votes)
 

Total Votes: 184
8:02
Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

8:03
Paul Swydan: Looking forward to a great game. Looks like most of you think the Dodgers win tonight.

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2017 World Series Game 3 Live Blog

7:36
Craig Edwards: I’ll be back in a few minutes, but feel free to get the queue going.

7:56
legeisc: What’s the O/U for innings for Darvish and McCullers? 4.2 for both?

7:57
Craig Edwards: I think that’s right, but we will see if either manager is a bit more conservative knowing there are three games in three days here in Houston.

7:57
Craig Edwards:

Who pitches more innings tonight?

Yu Darvish (80.0% | 64 votes)
 
Lance McCullers, Jr. (20.0% | 16 votes)
 

Total Votes: 80
7:59
This is lude-icris: I’m functioning on very little sleep but hey I can catch up in the off-season

7:59
Craig Edwards: hibernate in january or february. you don’t want to miss any of that hot stove action.

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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 10/27/17

9:06
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

9:06
Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

9:06
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: Longoria gets 10-5 rights next season. Does he get traded before then?

9:07
Jeff Sullivan: I don’t know why he would. This being Tampa Bay, obviously there’s always the chance, but Longoria feels like a forever Ray

9:08
Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe: What does Hensley Meulens need to do to get hired as a manager in one of the three current vacancies? I’d love him with the Nationals (though current front-runner Dave Martinez *feels* like a good fit as well).

9:08
Jeff Sullivan: This comment expresses a stronger feeling about a possible managerial candidate than I could personally ever imagine possessing

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2017 World Series Game 2 Live Blog

7:55
Dave Cameron: Welcome to the Game 2 Live Blog, everyone.

7:56
Dave Cameron:

I am rooting for

Houston (57.9% | 131 votes)
 
LA (42.0% | 95 votes)
 

Total Votes: 226
7:56
Dave Cameron:

I think

Houston will win (56.1% | 127 votes)
 
LA will win (43.8% | 99 votes)
 

Total Votes: 226
7:57
Dave Cameron:

Rich Hill goes

1-3 innings (5.5% | 12 votes)
 
4+ innings (44.9% | 97 votes)
 
5+ innings (41.6% | 90 votes)
 
6+ innings (5.5% | 12 votes)
 
7+ innings (0.9% | 2 votes)
 
8+ innings (0.4% | 1 vote)
 
9 innings (0.9% | 2 votes)
 

Total Votes: 216
7:58
Dave Cameron:

The Better Justin Tonight

Verlander (82.3% | 182 votes)
 
Turner (17.6% | 39 votes)
 

Total Votes: 221
7:58
Dave Cameron:

Too Many Polls, Dave

True (31.5% | 72 votes)
 
False (68.4% | 156 votes)
 

Total Votes: 228

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Dave Cameron FanGraphs Chat – 10/25/17

12:00
Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

12:00
Dave Cameron: Travis and I will be live blogging Game 2 tonight, so it’s a chatting kind of day for me.

12:01
Dave Cameron: Plenty of WS stuff to talk about, but we’ll also do some off-season stuff if you’re a fan of one of the other 28 teams that just wants the hot stove season to get here already.

12:01
Not Jeff Luhnow: The Astros have looked lost at the plate for the majority of this postseason.  I know Kershaw is a great pitcher, but how much of last night was him pitching well vs. the Astros not having a good plan and letting a lot of hittable pitches go.

12:02
Dave Cameron: It’s impossible to know, obviously, but it did seem like Houston just wasn’t seeing the ball very well most of the night. They complained repeatedly about clear strikes, Reddick especially. I wonder if they weren’t use to the Dodgers Stadium batters eye or something.

12:03
Josh R: My favorite nugget of the post season: The Dodger bullpen has given up the fewest runs of any team this post season, including the Rockies and Twins one game.

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2017 World Series Game 1 Live Blog

5:02
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

5:02
Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to World Series Game 1 Live Blog

5:02
Jeff Sullivan: I’ll be joined any minute now by the delightful insightful Eno Sarris!

5:02
Jeff Sullivan: You also will be joined by him

5:02
Eno Sarris: Crazy ass fireworks headed straight for the planes I about ducked like on a foul ball straight back to the plate.

5:03
Jeff Sullivan: Hello Eno!

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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat: All the Marbles

12:02
Eric A Longenhagen: Howdy, everyone. Let’s just dive right in.

12:02
Greg: Do you think Alex Jackson will atleast be a MLB back up type, 4th OFer/3rd catcher type, power off bench?

12:04
Eric A Longenhagen: I think there’s enough going on that he has some kind of big league role, yes. And I don’t rule him out as a regular just yet. I’ve probably said this before, but evaluating catcher defense in the AFL is really tough. Guys are ground down from a long season and also suddenly catching an entirely new staff. I’ve had many scouts warn me of mistakes they’ve made by weighing AFL looks at catchers too heavily.

12:04
Dan: In curious if you could provide some semi historical context for the relative wave of “meh” reviews we are getting on Maitan. In terms of other top international amateurs, I have to imagine many struggle as 17 year olds, and many have body concerns. Does this feel more noteworthy just because of the “generational talent” hype?  Is this a relatively normal level of struggle?

12:08
Eric A Longenhagen: Sure. Yes, 17-year olds who come here and are asked to rapidly assimilate to our culture (which includes access to a lot of food that isn’t good for you which, at age 17, I l consumed frequently) often struggle to do so. And that combined with the difficulty of being a pro baseball player often leads to some unflattering growing pains. So, while I’d rather have scouts telling me he looks amazing, this isn’t something to lose sleep over just yet. At least I don’t think so.

12:08
Hooha: Who are you most interested to see in Arizona?

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