Jeff Sullivan: Well, we’ve done it again

Jeff Sullivan: We’ve successfully opened a live baseball chat, ten minutes after the scheduled beginning

Jeff Sullivan: One of these weeks, I’m going to be early. Stay on your toes!

Comment From Julio Pepper
When we say a hitter had a good game, what we really mean is that he got relatively lucky in his 5 or so plate appearances. Similarly, is a “good game” for a pitcher a real thing, or a result of stringing together lucky innings? It looks to me like there are days when pitchers have their stuff or don’t, and people talk this way, but has anybody looked into this?

Jeff Sullivan: The way I think of it, it’s easier to tell if a pitcher has a good game than a hitter. A pitcher goes out and throws 100 pitches or so against a bunch of different guys, while a hitter might see 15-20 pitches and he has no control over what they are or where they go

Jeff Sullivan: So while *all* single-game analyses are complicated, I think a single start is more revealing than a single game in the lineup. You can evaluate a pitcher just by seeing how he’s locating. What’s the batter equivalent?

Eno Sarris: I’ll be here shortly

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Comment From Thorn
How excited should we be over Foltynewicz? Thinking of dropping Dickey or Niese for him in my 15 teamer.. thoughts?

Eno Sarris: No changeup, no command. Still, I guess I might drop Dickey.

Comment From Every Cub
Facing Gerrit Cole and Arqiumedes Caminero in the same game should be against the rules. SAVE US MR. MANFRIED

Comment From Zack
I just traded Adrian Gonzalez for Jose Abreu *drops mic*

Dave Cameron: It’s Wednesday, so let’s do some chatting.

Dave Cameron: I’ve opened up the queue a bit earlier than normal, but we’ll still start around noon.

Dave Cameron: Alright, off we go.

Comment From Brandon
So is Hutchison officially bad yet

Dave Cameron: No, but he should be a contender’s #4 or #5 starter, not their #2.

Dave Cameron: One minute break…

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! Jeff and I will be here at 9 pm ET to cram some baseball into your baseball holes! Fill up the queue and we’ll see you soon.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Comment From Pale Hose
Hey guys. I tried DFS for the first time yesterday. Safe to say I’m hooked. Any general advice for a beginner to that format?

Paul Swydan: I don’t play DFS, because it seems like the sort of time sink that I can’t manage at this stage of my life, but I remember when we did Pick Six that one year that you had to prepare for failure every day.

Comment From a eskpert
If you had a team of all immobile Sluggers (Manny Ramirez, Adam Dunn, Jim Thome, Good Ryan Howard) playing every position but pitcher, how many thousand runs would they score and allow against an average team (and Mark Beurhle’s pitching)?

Paul Swydan: Many thousands of runs. I can’t imagine them in the middle infield and in center.

Kiley McDaniel: I’m in Nashville right now, so let’s have a country music theme to this week’s chat. Just kidding, that would be terrible.

Comment From John
Come to Memphis sometime: far better food, music, and history than the overrated Nashville. I’ll even buy you some Memphis BBQ.

Kiley McDaniel: Almost went there during the opening series of the year to see Iowa (Bryant, Russell, Baez). Got ribs at Rendezvous last time I was there, when I saw Shelby Miller in AAA in 2012 for ESPN.

Comment From Pale Hose
In general, does org filler know it is org filler?

Kiley McDaniel: I know I don’t ask them that, but usually around their 3rd or 4th year they figure out who is getting the attention, who is on prospect lists, etc.

Comment From Guest
Does Bradley Zimmer have the tools to go 25/25 in the majors?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to hot sexy live baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: I’ll be your host, and I live in a time zone that is ten minutes slower than whatever your time zone is

Comment From Guest
Good morning, Jeff, glad you could join us.

Jeff Sullivan: Me too!

Jeff Sullivan: I’ll start the chat with this: per usual, I encourage you to not bother asking fantasy questions. I don’t play so I can’t give good advice, and also most people don’t care to read about your fantasy teams

Eno Sarris: last night felt like

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Eno Sarris: see you soon!

Comment From jocephus

call your friends, its eno chat time

Comment From THE+Average+Sports+Fan
Scared about Melancon? Or is it just 2 bad outing?

Eno Sarris: Definitely scared. Watson finished the game last night, and they do have Bastardo, but they already moving on. I even like Arqimedes but if Watson closing now it’ll take a blow up to get the Arq in that role.

Dave Cameron: It’s Wednesday, so let’s talk some baseball.

Dave Cameron: The queue is now open. We’ll get started in 15 minutes or so.

Dave Cameron: As a heads up, I’m using some spotty wifi, so we might have a few hiccups today.

Comment From guest
If the Angels eat 2/3rds of Hamilton’s contract, who would his suitors be?

Dave Cameron: He has ~$80 million left, right? So asking a team to pick him up at 2.5 years and $25 million? I don’t think anyone does that.

Dave Cameron: Pick up 80% of the contract and maybe the A’s or Rays take a flyer.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! Tonight we’ll be starting earlier than usual, as we’re going to live blog the StatCast unveiling broadcast on MLB Network tonight between the Cardinals and Nationals.

Jeff is a bit under the weather, so he may be in and out (or just out), but we’ll also be joined by special guest Sean Dolinar, whose pretty graphs have been populating the site for a little bit now.

See you soon!

Paul Swydan: Someone asked in the comments if the StatCast edition is available on MLB.TV. My answer is that I don’t think so, because they generally only carry local broadcasts on MLB.TV, but I’m not 100% sure.

Sean Dolinar: For those wondering, I just got an alert from my MLB At Bat app, and it looks like they will have a live look-in on the first inning of the MLBN game. This looks free to anyone:

http://m.mlb.com/video/topi…

Comment From Mike
For those of in the DC area (or STL), do you know if the MLB Network broadcast will be blacked out in favor of the regional networks? That would be very disappointing.

	Sean Dolinar: I think normal blackout policy applies, and you’ll be getting the Cubs-Pirates game on MLBN.

Paul Swydan: Hey everybody!

Sean Dolinar: Game time!

Kiley McDaniel: This is a chat. Let’s chat.

Comment From Keeper? I hardly know her
Does Uribe’s slow start make it likely that Corey Seager comes up early?

Kiley McDaniel: Don’t think they’re going to rush Seager based on short-term need.

Comment From KD
Wisler- up in 2015? Starter or reliever?

Kiley McDaniel: Starter. Don’t think they bring him up in relief unless he sits in AAA all year and a spot doesn’t open up and they just want to get him worked in for Sept…but a spot will open up at some point.

Comment From Bojack Horseman
Has your opinion of Matt Wisler changed significantly since you wrote up the Padres in December?