Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday. Let’s talk baseball for an hour or so.

Dave Cameron: The queue is now open, and we’ll start chatting at noon.

Comment From mtsw
Tell us what you think about the ESPN rankings of how “analytical” each pro sports organization is. The MLB rankings seemed to be “29 teams ranked by how often they reveal details of their front office to reporters and the Phillies at the bottom”

Dave Cameron: Ben Baumer, who did the MLB write-ups, isn’t a reporter. He worked for the Mets, and interacted with many of the people he listed. I thought it was pretty well done, and was mostly accurate in reflecting each organization’s efforts to embrace analytics.

Comment From PaKCman
So Ken Tremendous has to do a baseball analytics-themed sitcom next, right?

Dave Cameron: I realize I’ll probably get burned at the stake for this, but I watched one episode of Parks and Rec years ago, didn’t laugh once, and have never watched since.

Paul Swydan: Hi guys!

Paul Swydan: 9 pm ET. Get your questions in now. I have to cook dinner. OK thanks bye!

Paul Swydan: ONE RULE FOR TONIGHT – NO PARKS AND RECS SPOILERS. I’m not going to watch it until after the chat because I put your happiness before my own. Don’t spoil it for me!!!

Paul Swydan: One sec.

Comment From Pale Hose
Parks and Rec is on at 10 tonight. We can’t spoil. I’m ordering calzones.

Paul Swydan: Does Tom’s Bistro make cal-zone-es? (weird ben wyatt italian voice)

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to Tuesday live FanGraphs baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: I’ll be your host, apparently

Comment From Guest
ON TIME!?

Jeff Sullivan: Foolish guest

Comment From Brian
Which CLE pitcher do you see most exceeding expectations?

Dan Szymborski: Afternoon gang, let’s start out with our president-related business.

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Comment From Dan
Mona Lisa Saperstein voice: Matt Bowman zips, pwease (makes hand gesture.)

Dan Szymborski: You’ve laready put it on the spreadsheet!

Comment From GSon
Who are you and what have you done with Dan “Always Late Starting the Chat” Szymborski?

Dan Szymborski: It has begun.

Comment From Jaack
GO LORD IS IT MONDAY HOW DID I MISS THE WEEKEND.

Dan Szymborski: We rescheduled – I took McDaniel’s chat day so that one would be closer to the prospects release

Comment From George is Curious
I’ve read a number of writers saying to shy away from players who signed big contracts and joined new teams in the offseason. How much do you buy into that theory? Should guys like Sandoval, HanRam, etc. be expected to struggle the first few months getting acclimated to their new teammates and surroundings?

Dan Szymborski: I don’t really buy into the theory, though I don’t expect it to be true.

Dan Szymborski: After all, I know that players don’t exceed projections in the final years of their contract or the first years of contracts and if players with new contracts aren’t underperforming as a group (as it includes all the players who changed teams on big contracts) then if they’re underperforming in the first months, they have to also be overperforming in later months (or they’d be short of their projections)

Eno Sarris: good morning! good morning music.

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Comment From Harry Porter and the Voldemalts
Ennnnooooo come to Asheville and drink Wicked Weed and talk baseball with me!

Eno Sarris: sourisly

Comment From OK
Degrom, Garrett Richards, or Tyson Ross as my final keeper?

Eno Sarris: As much as I like Richards… deGrom is deBomb.

Dave Cameron: Hey, it’s a chat taking place at its regularly scheduled time. That’s different, this week.

Dave Cameron: The queue is now open. ‘

Dave Cameron: I spoke too soon.

Dave Cameron: Scheduled day, at least

Dave Cameron: Sorry about the delay.

Dave Cameron: Alright, let’s get to it.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! Jeff and I will be here at 9 pm ET. Before you ask about us Kiley’s prospect list, let me remind you that he did a chat this afternoon:

http://www.fangraphs.com/bl…

See you soon!

Comment From Mets Fan
It’s 9:01! You’re late

Comment From Mets Fan
It’s 9:02!! YOURE LATE!! *LOUD NOISES*

Comment From Mets Fan

BASEBALL IS BACK TOMORROW!!

Paul Swydan: MY COMPUTER SAYS 9:01. And no, baseball is most definitely NOT back tomorrow.

Jeff Zimmerman: Yep

Kiley McDaniel: I can’t start using catch phrases in the intro now, all these casual readers checking in for the first time will start expecting it. Gotta leave them wanting more.

Comment From Owen
I’m really mad about _______ being so low/not included on the list! Why do you hate my team?! LOUD NOISES!!!!!!

Kiley McDaniel: You were great in Wedding Crashers, don’t listen to what people say about your nose

Comment From Brian
Addison Russell was a 60FV on the Cubs list, now a 65 and #3 overall. As I cubs fan I love this, I get you broadened who you were getting information on for the top 200, etc. Any specific new information that raised your opinion/ranking on Russell? Or just general awesomeness?

Kiley McDaniel: No real new information. The Cubs list was early in the run and I knew Russell was behind Bryant, but didn’t have a great feel for how far or how the grades would dictate that. Turns out there weren’t many players between them.

Kiley McDaniel: That’s also the process that led to Ian Clarkin and Michael Taylor sneaking on the end of the list. Felt like just short of 50 FV, then I stacked up every player and they were both better than a handful of guys on the list…so they went on the list.

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Welcome to unusual rescheduled Monday chat

Jeff Sullivan: Don’t get used to this arrangement — this is just a one-week disruption, on account of Kiley’s prospect list and so on and so forth

Jeff Sullivan: Sorry I’m not Dan!

Comment From Phillies113
Jeff, pitchers and catchers report this week! I know you don’t like spring training but it means baseball is thisclose to being back! Hooray, right?

Jeff Sullivan: In a weird way baseball never feels further away to me than it does at the beginning of March