Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan:

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Paul Swydan: How’s everybody doing on this fine evening? Well, I hope.

Cena : What is the yanks biggest weakness?

Jeff Zimmerman: Lack of top end starters for the playoffs

Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Dave Cameron: Let’s talk September baseball.

Dave Cameron: Or maybe October baseball!

Gary: A lot of Acuna talk this season. What’s the best way for Atlanta to get him in the lineup? Dumping Kemp or Markakis makes sense, but could they use Inciarte as a trade chip and play Acuna in center?

Dave Cameron: Atlanta needs more good players, not to swap out the few they have for others. Neither Kemp nor Markakis should have a starting job next year.

Mel: What degree of moral turpitude do you assign the Red Sox for their electronic sign stealing?  Do you believe that Farrell did not know it was happening?

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning, everyone. I had two ESPN Insider pieces go up yesterday and today, so head over there if you’re interested in checking those out. Let’s chat…

Tommy N.: Has your outlook on Joey Lucchesi improved this year? What do you think he can be?

Eric A Longenhagen: Yes, he went from being an honorable mention on the Padres list to a high-probability 40 for me, a likely backend starter.

Gary: How do you project someone like Joey Wentz? Looks like a great season on paper, but reportedly not with great velocity. With a guy who has shown better velo in HS, what are the chances it takes a jump?

Eric A Longenhagen: Most guys never throw harder than they do in high school. You’re pitching more and toeing the rubber with less rest than you were in high school. Wentz wasn’t all that projectable, physically, in high school and velo peaks and valleys. I think he’ll be fine because the curveball and changeup will both be very good, but I wouldn’t expect him to have an elite fastball or anything like that.

Jonathon: Is there a good way to reach out to companies you want to work for as a junior in college?

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!