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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 4/21/17

9:06
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

9:06
Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

9:06
Bork: Hello, friend!

9:07
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

9:07
Sterling Mallory Chris Archer: How do you envision Marte playing when he comes back?

9:07
Jeff Sullivan: I don’t imagine much of anything is going to change

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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 4/20/16

2:05
Eno Sarris: The internet is wonderful. I was here, with my dad, and really enjoyed this song, It’s Ice:

12:01
Broseph: Any chance Zunino starts doing things at the plate anytime soon? Or should I jump ship and grab another flier like Hedges or Bandy?

12:02
Eno Sarris: Players like Zunino are super streaky. Still it’s not good that he’s striking out EVEN MORE. I’d give Bandy a shot. That’s at least a league average K%.

12:02
grimoren189: Updated thoughts on Amir Garrett?

12:03
Eno Sarris: He was 91.5 mph on the fastball and actually got whiffs on it yesterday. Still not a great fastball guy but his secondaries are fine. I like him more.

12:03
Nientsniew: Is it bad that I never ask baseball questions in this chat? In related news, I am using the bathroom

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FanGraphs After Dark Chat – 4/18/17

12:44
Paul Swydan:

What is tonight’s best 7-8 pm ET matchup?

CHW (Gonzalez) vs. NYY (Severino) (7.2% | 14 votes)
 
BOS (Johnson) vs. TOR (Stroman) (13.4% | 26 votes)
 
BAL (Gausman) vs. CIN (Arroyo) (4.6% | 9 votes)
 
DET (Fulmer) vs. TB (Andriese) (10.8% | 21 votes)
 
PHI (Eflin) vs. NYM (Wheeler) (4.1% | 8 votes)
 
WAS (Scherzer) vs. ATL (Foltynewicz) (59.5% | 115 votes)
 

Total Votes: 193
12:47
Paul Swydan:

What is tonight’s best 8 pm ET and later matchup?

MIL (Nelson) vs. CHC (Anderson) (3.9% | 7 votes)
 
CLE (Tomlin) vs. MIN (Hughes) (5.0% | 9 votes)
 
LAA (Nolasco) vs. HOU (Musgrove) (2.8% | 5 votes)
 
PIT (Kuhl) vs. STL (Leake) (5.0% | 9 votes)
 
SF (Cain) vs. KC (Hammel) (2.2% | 4 votes)
 
TEX (Darvish) vs. OAK (Triggs) (66.2% | 118 votes)
 
ARI (Miller) vs. SD (Cosart) (4.4% | 8 votes)
 
COL (Freeland) vs. LAD (Ryu) (8.4% | 15 votes)
 
MIA (Chen) vs. SEA (Gallardo) (1.6% | 3 votes)
 

Total Votes: 178
12:49
Paul Swydan:

What is your favorite work by Lendrick Lamar

C4 (0% | 0 votes)
 
The Kendrick Lamar EP (0% | 0 votes)
 
Overly Dedicated (0% | 0 votes)
 
Section.80 (2.6% | 5 votes)
 
good kid, m.A.A.d city (20.9% | 40 votes)
 
To Pimp a Butterfly (9.9% | 19 votes)
 
untitled unmastered. (0% | 0 votes)
 
DAMN. (3.1% | 6 votes)
 
Don’t make me choose! (7.3% | 14 votes)
 
I have never listened to Kendrick Lamar (56.0% | 107 votes)
 

Total Votes: 191
9:01
Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

9:01
Jeff Zimmerman: Hi

9:01
Andrew: How quickly are projections updated? Do depth charts playing time allocations take some time to catch up? How about ZIPS/Steamer?

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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 4/14/17

9:07
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

9:07
Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

9:07
Bork: Hello, friend!

9:07
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

9:08
Daniel: How can I learn to be as handsome as you?

9:08
Jeff Sullivan: Silence those that find you not handsome

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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 4/13/16

1:52
Eno Sarris: Let’s get in trouble together.

1:53
Eno Sarris:

12:02
J.D.: I know you’ve looked at guys with statistical indications of “closer stuff” before. Anyone stand out from the leaderboards who’s not closing yet?

12:04
Eno Sarris: Neris of course. Nothing else is obvious though if there were no cost concerns, I’d say Arodys would take over for JIm Johnson pretty soon. Rosenthal for Oh might happen by velo and ks…

12:04
annoying cubs fan: the Cubs keep grounding into double plays. I know it’s April, but they weren’t really a big double play team last year. Should I be worried?

12:04
Eno Sarris: Not the kind of thing that’s really sticky and they don’t seem like a ground-ball team.

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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 4/12/17

2:04
Jimmy Carter: Is Carter Capps a top 10 NL closer by the end of this season?

2:04
Dan Szymborski: OH yeah, hello.

2:05
Dan Szymborski: Could be, but I don’t want to commit yet given that he’s still doing rehab.

2:05
Dan Szymborski: And whether they call his shot put windup under new guidelines, I’m not sure of

2:05
Noah: Thoughts on Eric Thames so far? I know your system had him projected for a fairly significant season

2:05
Dan Szymborski: If he destroys the NL, Steamer gets the win over ZiPS – STeamer was more optimistic.

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Dave Cameron FanGraphs Chat – 4/12/17

12:01
Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday everyone.

12:01
Dave Cameron: Most teams have played seven games at this point, so let’s speculate wildly about what those seven games mean, and overreact emotionally to every outcome.

12:01
Dave Cameron: As is April tradition.

12:02
The Decadent Moose: As a Cardinals’ fan, what is my first priority: 1] Getting a refund from MLB.TV, 2] starting scurrilous rumors about players in the bullpen, or 3] simply buying http://www.FireMikeMatheny.com/ ?

12:02
Dave Cameron: No better place to start than this.

12:02
Dave Cameron: The Cardinals first week was pretty lousy, but it’s hard to imagine Cecil/Oh/Siegrist are going to combine for a 98.50 ERA or whatever they have right now.

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FanGraphs After Dark Chat – 4/11/17

2:48
Paul Swydan:

What is your favorite kind of spread (that you would eat as a sandwich)?

Peanut butter (63.0% | 126 votes)
 
Almond butter (6.0% | 12 votes)
 
Cookie butter (2.5% | 5 votes)
 
Cream cheese (6.5% | 13 votes)
 
Nutella (10.5% | 21 votes)
 
Vegemite/Marmite (1.5% | 3 votes)
 
Sunbutter (0.5% | 1 vote)
 
Cashew Butter (1.5% | 3 votes)
 
Other spreadable cheese (3.5% | 7 votes)
 
Other (say in comments) (4.5% | 9 votes)
 

Total Votes: 200
2:49
Paul Swydan:

Which current position player WAR leader is most likely to be in the top 30 at the end of the season?

J.T. Realmuto (10.9% | 27 votes)
 
Khris Davis (20.7% | 51 votes)
 
Jay Bruce (5.2% | 13 votes)
 
Chase Headley (2.8% | 7 votes)
 
Ian Kinsler (43.9% | 108 votes)
 
All of them (0% | 0 votes)
 
None of them (16.2% | 40 votes)
 

Total Votes: 246
6:19
Paul Swydan:

What is tonight’s best matchup?

NYM (Harvey) vs. PHI (Buchholz) (10.0% | 22 votes)
 
STL (Lynn) vs. WAS (Gonzalez) (4.5% | 10 votes)
 
CIN (Davis) vs. PIT (Taillon) (2.2% | 5 votes)
 
MIL (Peralta) vs. TOR (Happ) (1.8% | 4 votes)
 
ATL (Colon) vs. MIA (Straily) (1.3% | 3 votes)
 
BAL (Bundy) vs. BOS (Pomeranz) (49.3% | 108 votes)
 
SD (Weaver) vs. COL (Senzatela) (6.3% | 14 votes)
 
TEX (Hamels) vs. LAA (Skaggs) (10.9% | 24 votes)
 
HOU (Musgrove) vs. SEA (Miranda) (1.8% | 4 votes)
 
ARI (Ray) vs. SF (Samardzija) (11.4% | 25 votes)
 

Total Votes: 219
9:00
Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

9:01
Paul Swydan: Vegemite doesn’t have the least number of votes. What a time to be alive.

9:01
Jeff Zimmerman: Hi

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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat, Extended Spring Edition

1:00
Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning from lovely Tempe.

1:01
Eric A Longenhagen: The Mariners list went up today: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/top-16-prospects-seattle-mariners/

1:01
Eric A Longenhagen: Houston’s went up yesterday: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/top-21-prospects-houston-astros/

1:01
Eric A Longenhagen: I’ll be wrapping up Texas and Oakland tomorrow and Thursday so they should be up either late this week or Monday next.

1:02
Eric A Longenhagen: Also, this just went up: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/tuesday-cup-of-coffee-411/

1:03
Eric A Longenhagen: OKay, we chat.

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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 4/7/17

9:05
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

9:05
Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

9:05
Bork: Hello, friend!

9:05
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

9:06
Charlie: Close call there with Keon Broxton.

9:06
Jeff Sullivan: The man is bulletproof

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