august fagerstrom: hey y’all! apologies for my tardiness, lost track of time cleaning my apartment. get those questions in and we’ll start shortly!

august fagerstrom: I would link to Kendrick Lamar’s “untitled 07” as today’s song/album chat soundtrack, but nothing is up on YouTube yet, so let’s go with the other record I listened to on yesterday’s bike ride, Ty Segall – Melted

august fagerstrom: But seriously, listen to that Kendrick. Dude is making the most powerful music out right now

The Dude of NY:

august fagerstrom: seems like a good place to start

The Dude of NY: WHY CARTER CAPPS? WHY?

Dan Szymborski: There’s a chat for us. Somewhere a chat for us.

Dan Szymborski: Loud and crude and open air, wait for us, somewhere.

Dan Szymborski: Noontime in U.S. FanGraphs a time for us. Time together with time to spare, time to yell, time to glare. Today!

daneyko: Carlos Rodon is ready to become an All-Star ?

Dan Szymborski: Maybe not this year, but I’d be surprised if he never had an All-Star type season.

Zonk: Unless your first name happens to be “Avisail”, it’s hard not to like the A-Jax signing for the White Sox. What say you?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Friday baseball chat! There’s baseball happening!

Daniel: Your thoughts on the Jays this year? Seems like their PECOTA projections were a little conservative…84 wins seemed low even if it would give them a WC.

Jeff Sullivan: PECOTA puts them at 86-76 and Steamer/ZiPS puts them at 84-78. I like them more around 88-74; I don’t think they’re a particularly deep team, but they’re a strong team, and in a weird way I kind of like their underwhelming starting rotation

Jeff Sullivan: I obviously love Stroman, I’m on board with Happ, and I should hope they don’t give many starting opportunities to Sanchez because I think he’s a dynamite relieer

daneyko: do you like Ian Kennedy with the Royals. Better ERA in 2016 ?

Eno Sarris: be here shortly. If you’ve seen the ads on MLBN, you’ve heard this song, but it’s great, and the video even better:

Eno Sarris:

Jack Black: Please rank for 2016: Eovaldi, R. Hill, Berrios, Snell

Eno Sarris: You got it, but I could see moving Berrios ahead of Hill. Hill only has two pitches…

enos brain:

Tom: Would you be so kind as to name three prospects you would love to roster at this weekend’s AL-LABR?

Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Dave Cameron: Let’s get this party started.

Mike D: What’re the chances Soler is traded by the deadline for pitching this year?

Dave Cameron: Would guess that either he or Schwarber don’t finish the year in Chicago. The one who doesn’t hit will probably be trade bait.

Mike D: How do some non-speed guys always beat BABIP averages?

Dave Cameron: They hit the ball hard and on a line. Guys like Miguel Cabrera square up a lot of pitches, and hard-hit balls are caught less often than balls that are hit up or down. Guys who can avoid infield flies also don’t give away free in-play outs.

Paul Swydan: Whoops, lost track of time. OK, let’s start.

Trainman: Chapman suspension: fair or foul? Do you see him being the closer if Miller or Betances dominate out the gate?

Paul Swydan: So, on the one hand, I didn’t like the idea of giving him a suspension long enough to give the Yankees an extra year of his services. But I also think these domestic abuse offenders should be treated more harshly than PED offenders. And I think that there is, since no charges were filed in this case, and the woman was apparently *physically* unharmed, it leaves the door open for stiffer punishments when those things are in play. But we’ll have to see.

Jeff Zimmerman: Fair, wasn’t guilty in court. Miller will be closer

Ruby: Hypothetical: The best player on every team tears an Achilles on April 1. What happens to playoff odds?

Paul Swydan: Probably not a ton, because every team is losing that one player. Maybe the Angels and Nationals and Dodgers are affected a little more than most.

august fagerstrom: return of the Tuesday chat!

august fagerstrom: baseball on the TV!

august fagerstrom: good day

august fagerstrom: Listen to some Grinderman

august fagerstrom: we’ll start up ’round noonish

august fagerstrom: alrighty!

Dan Szymborski: We get signal.

Dan Szymborski: Main screen turn on.

Rick: ZiPS projection for wRC+ is on the individual player pages, but not on the mass spreadsheet or compiled projections page. Is there any way to fix this?

Dan Szymborski: No, because I don’t calculate wRC+

Outta my way, Gyorkass: I saw on the Brewers ZiPS page that O. Arcia is projected to be a +2 WAR player. Is that all in the defense? He’s hit well, but nothing above AA ball.

Dan Szymborski: A 20-year-old hitting like that in AA isn’t something to poo-poo.

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to late baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Last night I genuinely had a dream that I was late to this chat. I knew it was a dream instead of reality because I felt anxious about it

Guest: Daaammmnn Jeffrey! Back at it again with the friday chat!

Jeff Sullivan: Can’t stop me

Jeff Sullivan: Nice try haters

Eno or Paul? Paul or Eno?: Hi Eno…or Paul,

Eno Sarris: It’s Paul!!!

Eno Sarris: If you watch Broad City, you’ll recognize this fire af jam from last week’s premier. It’s great:

Eno Sarris: Let’s talk some baseball!

Ryan: Dynasty league — Michael Brantley or Justin Upton?

Eno Sarris: Going Upton here. Not only does Brantley have the shoulder this year, but the back from previous year makes him a little sketchy long-term, too.