Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Been a while since Bork 🙁

Zonk: Javy Baez has 13 Intentional BBs, and only 11 earned BBs.  Has any qualified batter ever finished a season with more IBBs than regular BBs?  I am guessing the answer is no….

Jeff Sullivan: To the query machine!

Jeff Sullivan: Baez would stand to be the first since Vladimir Guerrero in 2006

Eno Sarris: Weird intro, but i’m looking forward to seeing them in New York at https://octfest.co in two weeks. See you there?

Tim: How many hits do you think you could get in 600 plate appearances Eno?

Eno Sarris: Man you saw my swing path and stats. I think zero, but the role of luck is huge. I’d just swing as hard as I could as soon as the pitcher released the ball and maybe get one.

Nick in Atl: headed across the pond soon – beer/brewery recs in London, Edinburgh & Amsterdam? Enjoying the book also.

Eno Sarris: I don’t know as much about those spots as I should. Cloudburst is doing fun stuff though.

2-D: Eno I just missed out on Pliny and had to get Blind Pig. How big is the gap?

Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Dave Cameron: Big news of the morning is Mike Leake to Seattle, as the Mariners continue to look for more reliable starting pitchers.

Dave Cameron: Be interesting to see how much of the contract STL is picking up. Can’t imagine M’s took the whole thing.

BeBop: OK, seriously, what do you do if you’re Jeter and Co. regarding Stanton? Trade? Keep? As a Marlins fan I’m so torn.

Dave Cameron: Keep for now. Maybe you explore trading him as he gets closer to the opt-out, but you can’t trade your franchise player right after you take over.

ECinDC: What does the NL Cy Young race look like to you?

Eric A Longenhagen: Hi everyone, Fall League roster reaction piece has been filed and hopefully I’ll have a link for you during this chat. Let’s get into it…

Tommy N.: What do you think of Enyel De Los Santos? He seems to get lost in the Padres’ stacked pitching group.

Eric A Longenhagen: I like him, well-rounded stuff and strike-throwing ability. #4/5 type of starter. Wrote him up here: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/daily-prospect-notes-725/

JT: What’s your take on Buxton’s recent surge?

Eric A Longenhagen: Told you so?

Eric A Longenhagen: I hope this surge is a sign of things to come for him, and that people will look to this as an example of why patience with prospects is important

Travis Sawchik: Howdy folks ….

Travis Sawchik: Let’s get to it

Mike: Liked your article about Kenley Jansen, but its too bad you didn’t ask him about any of the other stuff he’s been doing to vary the use of the cutter including:

Quick pitches with the new rules for using a stretch position as a ‘windup’

The more prominent use of his slider

The addition, in that very at bat you linked against Sean Rodriguez, of a hesitation move.   In the Rodriguez AB, he threw a strike, did a Kershaw-style bounce leg kick for strike 2, and then quick-pitched strike 3.   You can see on strike 2 that Rodriguez ends up on one foot for a couple seconds and is completely off-balance.

Travis Sawchik: This is the referenced article … http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/simplicity-becomes-sophistication-for-k…

Travis Sawchik: I did focus on just one aspect of Jansen but the general point was this a pitcher who is more sophisticated in his approach than is publicly recognized and your points fit to that idea

Bronx Bombers: Barring injury, we’re at the point where Tanaka is a lock to opt out, right?

Jeff Sullivan: Terribly sorry about that

Jeff Sullivan: Had a problem with podcast recording

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends!

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

Matt: Hey Jeff – did you hear there was a fight yesterday?

Jeff Sullivan: I heard there were four

Dan Szymborski: OK, let’s start chat, gotta make do after the CISTULLOTAGE

Brad: How are you doing in your fantasy leagues this year?

Dan Szymborski: Generally top third or so but no firsts.  I don’t play in a ton of league sthough.

Greatest Goat Sports: Do you think the Dbacks have a legitimate shot at retaining JD Martinez?

Dan Szymborski: Yes

Murse Wigwam: Oh my Zod, you’re Dan Szymborski!

Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Dave Cameron: Let’s chat for an hour or so.

Nicky Delmonico: There’s been a lot of hype and analysis of hot starting call ups on fangraphs lately… my name has made me a bit of a cult hero in Chicago. Do I have a chance of keeping this up and being a very good MLB hitter?

Dave Cameron: Travis Sawchik is writing about you on these pages very soon.

Free Clay Zavada: How high would Yoan Moncada’s strikeout rate have to be in a full season next year for you to become very concerned about his status as a future star?

Dave Cameron: I’m already concerned.

Paul Swydan:

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Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Michael: Buxton or Hicks ROS?

Paul Swydan: According to the depth charts, it’s a wash: http://www.fangraphs.com/projections.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&type=rfang…

Eric A Longenhagen: Hi, everyone. I sending something to Cistulli and will begin momentarily….

Eric A Longenhagen: Okay, apologies.

Eric A Longenhagen: Let’s begin.

Mike: SSS, but seems like Aramis Ademan is holding his own in A ball. Thoughts on him?

Eric A Longenhagen: I really like him. Good frame, athleticism, smooth defensive actions at short. Has doubles power right now but might grow into a bit more. That might mean he moves off of short and over to second but I still think there’s a potential everyday player there even if that’s the case.

Kevbot034: Walker Buehler, Fernando Romero, Jack Flaherty and Brent Honeywell…who do you think we see this September? And any have a shot at starting next year in the rotation?