Eno Sarris: Be here shortly! In the meantime

Eno Sarris: challa!

Matt Harvey: Are you worried about me?

Eno Sarris: Look a little doughy, not doing well in the fifth, velocity dropping off, it’s hard to change fitness in the middle of the season, but I’m less worried about him than a guy like Keuchel at 88 mph.

Inquiring Monde: I think I know the answer to this q given your podcast/love of Nola, but here goes: trade Travis Shaw to get back Nola in a redraft?

Eno Sarris: Shaw looks like a .260/20 type third baseman, which I like a little less than a strong fantasy #2.

Dave Cameron: Back after a nice vacation last week, so let’s try to get two weeks worth of questions in today.

Alan: As a miserable Atlanta fan, can you give me some hope? And when’s the earliest you could see this franchise back in the mix for a playoff spot?

Dave Cameron: Have you seen what Swanson and Albies are doing in the minors? There’s a real chance that could be your starting middle infield next year, and those guys could represent a massive improvement from the disaster that Aybar/Peterson have been. Inciarte is still a nice player when he gets healthy, Freeman will bounce back. They are halfway to a decent lineup. The pitching stinks, so this will take a few years, but there are pieces in place.

O’s Lover: Is it time to give up on Schoop? All predictions had his breakout year coming – too soon to pull the plug?

Dave Cameron: He is what he is; a powerful slugger with lousy command of the strike zone.

S: Rockies fans have to be encouraged by Jon Gray so far, right?

august fagerstrom: let’s do a chat!

august fagerstrom: I wanted this week’s chat soundtrack to be the new Drake record, but unfortunately it’s horribly boring, so instead watch the new Radiohead video and then listen to a bunch of other Radiohead while you’re at it

Bork: Hello, friend!

august fagerstrom: Hi, Bork!

Shawn: Outside of a few bad pitches, Matt Moore has looked great so far this year. Think this is the year he finally puts it all together?

august fagerstrom: I’ve never been a big Moore believer, but I touched upon him a bit in the Rays post I wrote last week. Everything he’s doing — velocity, movement, command — either looks exactly like rookie season Moore, or better

Jeff Sullivan: Well dammit friends

Jeff Sullivan: Let’s just baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Hello

Guest: Jeff, OMG did you fix Chris Archer???

Jeff Sullivan: Chris Archer didn’t need very much fixing, which helps

Jeff Sullivan: It’s like trying to fix David Price

Eno Sarris: The game has gone

Erik: The Phillies are over .500! That must mean they suck at everything, even tanking, right? Are they being decent in any way that’s actually sustainable?

Eno Sarris: Hey I love their staff, loved it from the beginning. Eickhoff, Nola, Velasquez, Franco… Franco… and eventually JP Crawford! They have some decent pieces and will have some money to spend. Their rebuild won’t take forever.

George is Curious: Has your opinion of Rich Hill changed any since last week? I sat him for his past two starts and boy did he make me pay for that. And now I see he’s atop the leaderboard for most-improved pitcher projections?

Eno Sarris: Yeah but, watching it, I don’t get it. He relies on throwing a curveball half the time, and in the zone more than anyone, so to some extent he’s relying on non-swings. Has no fastball command, so there will be games with five or six walks. He’s super risky to me. And I haven’t even gotten into the injury risk.

Howard: So after spending time with the padres what did you learn about them? Other than the fact that they are going to be terrible this year.

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?