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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat 5/9

12:02
Eric A Longenhagen: Morning from an anomalously cool Tempe.

12:02
Eric A Longenhagen: Today’s chat will be held tight to an hour as I’ve got some games to hit today.

12:02
Eric A Longenhagen: Begin!

12:03
Jack: Is Jake Gatewood’s power here to stay now? 2015-16 were rough but seems to have tapped into that frame so far this season

12:03
Eric A Longenhagen: The power hes always been there and totally undermined by swing and miss issues.

12:04
Eric A Longenhagen: He’s strijing out a lot this year, walk rate has gone from 3% to 14% which is too big of an uptick to be entirely real.

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Travis Sawchik FanGraphs Chat

12:00
Travis Sawchik: Hello, everyone

12:00
Travis Sawchik: We need to talk

12:00
Travis Sawchik: So let’s get started, shall we?

12:01
Robert : Before the season, Jay Bruce said he was going to make a conscious effort to hit more fly balls. So far, his FB rate is up about 10% and conversely, his GB rate down about 10%. Does this make his hot start more buyable?

12:01
Travis Sawchik: I believe it does. And I wrote a bit about it earlier this spring … http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/jay-bruce-tries-to-improve-q-rating-in-…

12:02
Travis Sawchik: Any time a player expresses an intention to make a change, makes the change, and performance improves … I buy in

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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 5/5/17

9:04
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

9:04
Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

9:04
Bork: Hello, friend!

9:04
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

9:05
Trader Joe: True or False?: Rockies would be better off trading LeMahieu for pitching and calling up Ryan McMahon to play 2B.

9:05
Jeff Sullivan: That seems very false

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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 5/4/17

1:36
Eno Sarris: I’m going to play this because I like it, creepy sound at the beginning or no.

12:01
The Average Sports Fan: Will Altherr continue to get full time PT?

12:02
Eno Sarris: Long term I think he’s still a fourth outfielder. Strikes out a lot, doesn’t walk a ton, overreached on small sample power imo, and platoon splits worrisome.

12:02
greg: Is Aaron Judge’s 54% HR/FB sustainable?

12:03
Eno Sarris: LOL

12:03
chris: How long do the Indians roll the dice with Chisenhall in center before calling up Zimmer?

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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 5/3/17

1:58
Clark Kent: Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 5/3/17
by Carson Cistulli

1:58
Dan Szymborski: The post about the chat is by Carson.

1:59
Tyler Glasnow: Would you give my new changeup a 55 scouting grade? Is the only thing holding me back now consistent control?

1:59
Dan Szymborski: The latter I think is the biggest obstacle. I wouldn’t want to give an exact grade without specifically reviewing the tape and looking at it, but it looks much improved to me

1:59
mtsw: Does Ryan Flaherty possess the least remarkable career in MLB history? Has never been an everyday starter, except as an injury replacement and will likely go all 3 rookie seasons and 3 arb years as an Oriole then (probably?) retire after this season. Say something about Ryan Flaherty’s lack of remarkability.

1:59
Dan Szymborski: It would be interesting to find the mediocre-est player in history.

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Dave Cameron FanGraphs Chat – 5/3/17

12:01
Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

12:02
Dave Cameron: Nice to be back on the west coast after a trip to DC for Pitch Talks on Monday night.

12:02
hscer: thanks for doing Pitch Talks DC on Monday, “Previous Speaker,” great stuff as always

12:03
Dave Cameron: Thanks to the folks who came out and made it a fun night. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

12:03
The Average Sports Fan: Are the slow starts for the Royals and Blue Jays actually blessings in disguise? NO reason for misplaced hope. You are terrible, SELL!

12:03
Dave Cameron: The Blue Jays aren’t terrible, they just dug too big a hole.

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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat 5/2

1:02
Eric A Longenhagen: Morning from Tempe.

1:03
Eric A Longenhagen: Here are this morning’s daily notes: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/daily-prospect-notes-52/

1:03
Eric A Longenhagen: Let’s get right to it.

1:03
Ron: Albies has 80 games at Triple A with a wRC+ of 85 and OBP below .300. When are we allowed to start being concerned?

1:04
Eric A Longenhagen: He’s the age of a college sophomore and was hitting .290 before the weekend started. He’s fine.

1:04
Tommy N.: Do you have any thoughts on Joey Lucchesi? Could he be a fast riser considering his age?

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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat — 4/28/17

9:03
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

9:03
Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat

9:03
Bork: Hello, friend!

9:03
Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

9:03
Sock Therapy: Is Aaron Judge the messiah

9:03
Jeff Sullivan: Some people are made in something superior to God’s image

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Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 4/27/17

1:24
Eno Sarris: Dad admission: didn’t even know they made Viet Cong change their name didn’t even know they had a new album.

1:25
Eno Sarris: I like some of the new tunes like this one. Oh, and we had a beer with them over at October https://oct.co/articles/having-beer-preoccupations

12:02
Rick Sanchez: Is Bundy for real? Any concerns with the velo?

12:03
Eno Sarris: I am concerned with him. I’d be shopping pretty hard. First, there’s the injury concern. Then there’s a two mph dip in the last start, two mph off from last year. Velocity drop is the biggest indicator of injury.

12:03
botchatheny: trouble in st. louis ? –

12:03
Eno Sarris: Dude always shows up when I try to quantify managers, in a bad way.

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Dave Cameron FanGraphs Chat – 4/26/17

12:01
Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

12:01
Dave Cameron: Look forward to seeing all the DC-metro folks at Pitch Talks on Monday night.

12:02
Dave Cameron: Let’s talk baseball (or children’s books) for the next hour.

12:02
Scott: I think Gurriel read your article about the Astros needing a first baseman.

12:03
Dave Cameron: Yeah, I’ve noticed. That said, it’s basically all a .500 BABIP; he still doesn’t walk and has modest power.

12:03
ChiSox2020: Dave can you please rank the top 5 White Sox pitchers trade values? (Exclude Rodon since he won’t be traded)

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