Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Paul Swydan: Couple warnings for tonight’s chat. 1) Jeff is in the middle of a lightning/hail storm that is causing him to lose intermittently lose power, so he may be in and out. 2) I’m watching the Celtics game because a) it’s the playoffs and b) last night’s Sox-Braves game was super boring. Sue me.

William Wallace : Berrios hot takes

Paul Swydan: You’re talking to a guy who went to $11 on him in Ottoneu. Yes that was partly because I had accidentally left a lot of money on the table, but still. I’m excited. Be excited!

Paul Swydan: The rookies are coming.

Paul Swydan: Jeff lost power FYI.

august fagerstrom: Hello! My internet is being weird so hopefully this all goes smoothly.

august fagerstrom: In a Death Grips mood today. Death Grips — Government Plates

august fagerstrom: Also, if you’ve missed the announcement, make sure to check out this cool thing myself and other baseball writers will be attending in New York in June: www.fangraphs.com/blogs/staten-island-yankees-sabermetric-day-event-on-june-19th/

Jake M: Milky Cabrera after a awful first Hal last year had a 110 wRC+ in the 2nd half and now has a 155 wRC+ with the best strikeout to walk rate in baseball last time I checked. Turnaround I can believe in?

august fagerstrom: Milky!

august fagerstrom: Let’s begin.

Sirras: Presidential brawl?

Dan Szymborski: ARRGGH, someone’s gotta remind me before we start chat! lol

Sirras: If you’re the Mets, how concerned are you with Harvey?

Dan Szymborski: Somewhere between mild and moderate.

Michael: Drew Smyly: what kind of stats does he end the year with?

Dan Szymborski: 3.20ish ERA?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: We should baseball chat

Bork: Hello friend!

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

Tony G.: Is injury-risk the only thing stopping Drew Smyly from joining the conversation of top-tier arms in the league?

Jeff Sullivan: He seems to have the habit of giving up a few too many homers, on account of all the high fastballs, but a more durable Smyly would be an incredible Smyly

Eno Sarris: No idea what the images are but I like A-Trak and I like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs so

The Hamburglar: What is wrong with Chris Archer? Article idea!

Eno Sarris: Just having a chat with Collette about this. Checked injury markers and he has two: zone% is down precipitously and velo is down too. Exit velocity up 4mph. Slugging percentage up on the slider. He admits the slider isn’t well. Friend said he thinks he sees Archer making an adjustment in his legs to get velocity back and that something is now off kilter up top. Hopefully he’s not hiding anything. If his release point was super inconsistent, I’d be more worried, but I’ll give him a 6/10 worry.

JeevesAsksYou: Traded Story for JD Martinez. Already had Seager and Suarez. Not too shabby eh?

Eno Sarris: Yeah I’d do that.

The Hamburglar: What pitchers have demonstrated a changed approach, new arsenal of pitchers, etc. that you are high on thus far?

Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday. Let’s go ahead and talk some baseball.

mike: who is a guy you are higher on that your colleagues are lower on? and vice versa?

Dave Cameron: Well I haven’t polled all my colleagues, so I’m not sure I have a great baseline to compare against. But I get the general feeling that I’m higher than most people on Kyle Hendricks.

matt: Giolito an ace someday? how soon?

Dave Cameron: I’d say it’s not a great idea to project any pitching prospect as an ace. There’s just so much that can go wrong between dominating the minors and reaching that level in the big leagues.

max: do you see joey gallo fitting into the Rangers plans? if so, how?

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! Let’s do this.

Paul Swydan: Sorry I’m late.

Chris: Is there any way to access old Baseruns data (2002-2014)? I’ve been asking Fangraphs in as many ways as possible, but I haven’t been able to find that data. I’m looking for it for a school project, and any help would be appreciated. Thanks Paul!

Paul Swydan: I have asked too! To no avail yet, but we’ll get it eventually.

Jeff Zimmerman: OK

yolo: I got offered Felix/Starlin Castro/Cody Allen for Springer/Teheran in an deep OBP league. Both my pitching and my shortstop situation are trash, but my OF is deep. Worth taking?

august fagerstrom: let us chat

august fagerstrom: (at noon)

august fagerstrom: chat soundtrack: Yo La Tengo — And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

august fagerstrom: OK! The AT&T guy is now out of my apartment and I have *real* internet! No more phone tethering! Yay!

august fagerstrom: Let’s do this thing.

Texas Dolly: What happens with Nomar Mazara in Texas assuming Choo and Hamilton return in a month? Does he remain a starter somehow or end up back in the minors to get regular playing time?

Dan Szymborski: *cough*

Dan Szymborski: Don’t worry, I won’t be inserting my coughs.

Chris Hatcher: On a scale from “blow it up and start over” to ” they’ll figure it out and be a strength”, how concerned should Dodgers fans be about me and my ‘pen mates?

Dan Szymborski: It’s a little late to blow it up. And they *still* have the #3 bullpen in the RoS projections – even if you apply some kind of suck factor and say they’re “only” 10th or something, how would they build a better bullpen than the #10 on April 18th?

Tom: Any idea why Tulo has bad offensive numbers since he got the jays?

Dan Szymborski: 2015 wans’t alarmingly worse given the sample size

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Let’s chat already

Q-Ball: Fun Cub Fact: Cubs run differential right now is +43. That is more than the total runs scored of 22 teams.

Jeff Sullivan: I don’t think juggernauts really exist in baseball, but this is what one would look like

Jeff Sullivan: People said our expectations of the Cubs were way too high. They’re exceeding them! It’s so stupid

Raindog: More surprising: Daniel Murphy has highest qualified wOBA in MLB or Russell Martin has lowest?