| 2:04 |
: Hey guys, and welcome to live chat
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| 2:05 |
: I’m going to be chatting during the first game. Dave will be chatting during the second game! If the games do not overlap, then there will be a dead zone in the middle
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| 2:05 |
Hi Jeff |
| 2:05 |
: Hi Brandon!
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| 2:05 |
Missed your Chat this morning; Tell me good thing about Christian Yelich and his future |
| 2:05 |
: Excellent discipline, consistent line-drive contact, power will continue to develop
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| 9:03 |
: Hello friends! Welcome to FanGraphs chat
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| 9:04 |
: Let’s talk about baseball, or what’s stressing you out
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| 9:04 |
Is Stephen Drew a worthwhile player in 2015? |
| 9:04 |
: For real-life purposes, he’s probably a bottom-10 shortstop but a reasonable shortstop
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| 9:05 |
Is trading Kimbrel the best way for the Braves to reload for next year? He’d bring in a nice haul and it would save a lot of money. |
| 9:06 |
: As great as he is, he’s not *that* cheap for a closer, and he’s got another three guaranteed years. The Braves could turn him into shiny bits, but not the most shiny bits
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| 11:58 |
: Boom.
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| 11:58 |
: Will keep this fairly strictly to an hour. Dan got his yearly flu early this year and wants to sleep so that he doesn’t sleep during games.
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| 11:58 |
: And yes, I realize I should probably get the damn flu shot.
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| 11:58 |
The orioles and royals are playing way over their heads. I guarantee they regress and neither reaches the world series. |
| 11:58 |
: heh
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| 11:58 |
Where does Detroit throw all that Little Cesar’s money after this embarrassing exit? |
| 9:33 |
: So there’s four games today, and we’re going to live blog all of them. Brad Johnson will be here for O’s/Tigers game, and will be joined by Carson, so you’ve been warned. Mike Petriello will take over for the Nats/Giants game, and then Eno will show up for Cards/Dodgers, with Swydan pulling the late shift and grabbing Angels/Royals. Prepare for 12+ hours of playoff live blogging. Baseball!
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| 11:56 |
: Alright, let’s kick this off. The cable guy just left my apartment and I can now watch playoff games on all channels (previously ESPN and FS1 were dead).
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| 11:56 |
Do front offices use fangraphs/b-ref or does MLB have its own historical database they keep for team use? |
| 11:57 |
: Each team has its own behind the scenes statistics, but I’ve spoken to mid-level executives in several front offices who have referenced stats from FanGraphs and BRef. I’ve also talked with them about specific FanGraphs and BPro articles.
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| 11:58 |
i watched o’s game last night with a bunch of baltimore dudes. they kept sounding off about opposing pitchers “being scared of Schoop” all year. Really confused by this. What are your thoughts on him? peak line? |
| 11:59 |
: Hmm. This is never noticed, although I maybe watched 15-20 O’s games closely.
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| 3:06 |
: The schedule for today’s live blogs: Wendy Thurm and August Fagerstrom have the Orioles/Tigers game, and then I’ll be joined by David Temple for the Royals/Angels game at 9:30. We’ve got ~7 hours of baseball in front of us. Let’s have a good time.
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| 5:25 |
: Welcome.
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| 5:27 |
Hi Wendy! |
| 5:27 |
Can the Royals make a this a competitive series? Can they get to a fifth game? |
| 5:28 |
: Royals’ opening is with the Angels’ starters. But Angels have same opening with Royals’ starters and have a much more potent offense. It does appear to be a mismatch, but that’s why you play the game.
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| 5:29 |
I bet the royals wish they hadn’t traded away Wil Meyers for a 2 year Shields rental. I mean their fan base must be so upset right now. |
| 11:45 |
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| 11:46 |
: Why you wanna get funkee with me
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| 12:00 |
Thanks for chatting, Eno! What do you make of Yost’s decision to start Vargas over Guthrie tonight? |
| 12:00 |
: Just looked this up: Angels best in baseball against lefties, and best in baseball against changeups. I don’t love either pitch, but that sorta stands out.
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| 12:01 |
Thanks for the chat. Dominated my 5×5 Roto OBP league this year. Won all 5 offensive categories. I like to stay ahead of trends and I’m wondering if I should be shopping Adam Jones this offseason. Good idea or am I tinkering too much since I already led the league in OBP? |
| 12:02 |
: I’d shop him. This seems peak value. No more power coming, and speed dropping off, and his batting average needs to have all of these skills peaking or it’ll get worse.
Dang. I’m having trouble seeing things I post. This sucks. Refreshing screen. |
| 6:36 |
: Hi everybody!
Jeff Sullivan and myself will be here with you all night long, if last night is any indication. So come fill up the queue with warmup questions, and we’ll chat the night away. I will make an effort to be in here before the game starts, but I can only guarantee I’ll be here for first pitch. See you soon! |
| 7:59 |
: One minute guys. Literally just searching for the remote.
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| 8:01 |
: OK, mercifully found it between two pillows. One more sec, setting up polls.
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| 8:02 |
: Another amazing game!
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| 8:02 |
: Giants
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| 8:02 |
: Giants
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| 2:39 |
: Hey everyone. We’ll get started at 3pm, but the queue is open. Remember, I focus on questions about our data/features/sabermetrics/etc, but regular questions are always welcome.
I’m @NeilWeinberg44 on Twitter if you’re looking for me and I publish updates to our Library on Fridays. Hope you’re recovering nicely from last night! |
| 3:00 |
: Afternoon, everyone who isn’t west of the pacific time zone. Morning to those of you who are.
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| 3:01 |
: Let’s see about some baseball. I probably won’t run the usual two hours because there will be like 8000 hours of chats this week, but if you ask good questions I will go until my dog starts bugging me to play.
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| 3:01 |
Woof. the hardest part of my day was choosing my player of the year ballot. thank god the choice was easy with my pick of Mike Morse MVP! |
| 3:02 |
: I don’t have a vote, which I’m a little relieved about. Picking the down ballot spaces is very hard. Which I guess is why we have the grading part. Lucroy or Cutch? How would you separate them?
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| 3:02 |
it seems like this fall is the ideal time to trade Jose Bautista. He had a .404 OPS, 35 HR, 100+ RBIs ect, but he will be 34 shortly and will have a no-trade right as a 10 year player. What is a reasonable to Toronto, assuming they decide to sell high, ignoring the hole his trade would leave. |
| 12:07 |
: Alright, so, apologies for the delay.
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| 12:08 |
: In my defense, I’m still exhausted from last night. Maybe that’s no defense at all.
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| 12:08 |
: So get mad about the late start, but we’ll go long to make up for it, assuming I don’t pass out first.
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| 12:10 |
: Chat will kick off in 5-10 minutes, once I get a few more things squared away.
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| 12:15 |
: Alright, let’s get this thing started.
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| 12:15 |
Brewers’ brass are believing they had too many swing for the fences type hitters in the lineup which was the demise of their offense as the season progressed. Your assessment of that perspective? |
| 7:57 |
: Time for someone’s dream to die! It’s the AL wild-card playoff!
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| 7:58 |
: A’s
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| 7:58 |
: A’s
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| 7:59 |
Hey Mariners fans–your bandwagon team of the postseason? |
| 7:59 |
: For some reason I always end up pulling for the A’s. Dave’s hardly a Mariners fan and he can’t speak for himself yet
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| 8:00 |
I’m on antibiotics and painkillers for an infection so I can’t drink so if you would drink extra for me it would be greatly appreciated. |
