| 5:36 |
: 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:
See you soon! |
| 9:02 |
It’s 9:01! You’re late |
| 9:02 |
It’s 9:02!! YOURE LATE!! *LOUD NOISES* |
| 9:02 |
BASEBALL IS BACK TOMORROW!! |
| 9:02 |
: MY COMPUTER SAYS 9:01. And no, baseball is most definitely NOT back tomorrow.
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| 9:03 |
: Yep
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| 12:05 |
: 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.
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| 12:05 |
I’m really mad about _______ being so low/not included on the list! Why do you hate my team?! LOUD NOISES!!!!!! |
| 12:05 |
: You were great in Wedding Crashers, don’t listen to what people say about your nose
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| 12:05 |
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? |
| 12:06 |
: 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.
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| 12:07 |
: 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.
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| 9:05 |
: Hello friends
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| 9:05 |
: Welcome to unusual rescheduled Monday chat
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| 9:05 |
: 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
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| 9:05 |
: Sorry I’m not Dan!
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| 9:06 |
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? |
| 9:06 |
: In a weird way baseball never feels further away to me than it does at the beginning of March
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| 12:01 |
: It’s taking everything I have to keep working and not listen to Drake’s surprise album that dropped last night. So, here I am, talking to you people instead.
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| 12:04 |
is the album legit? |
| 12:05 |
: Checked out some of the previews of the tracks on iTunes, sounds like it’s low energy/introspective/R+B Drake, which is my least favorite Drake
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| 12:05 |
So what’s the best Cuban food you’ve had? |
| 12:05 |
: La Teresita in Tampa is right next to the Yankee complex and is pretty darn solid along with being crazy cheap
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| 12:06 |
Gun to your head, when is Kris Bryant called up? |
| 10:34 |
: I’ll be here soon! For now, an aptly-named song.
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| 12:02 |
enoooooooo I can’t make this chat so make sure it’s a boring one |
| 12:02 |
or take this opportunity to say mean things about me behind my back |
| 12:02 |
: That Guest is the worst.
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| 12:02 |
Pod wrote a great article about drafting Billy Hamiton at #20. I’ve heard people say to avoid drafting one category guys. Why is that? Do you agree? |
| 11:43 |
: It’s Wednesday, so let’s have some fun.
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| 11:43 |
: The queue is now open.
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| 12:01 |
LOL fun on a Wednesday! This guy! ^^^ |
| 12:02 |
: “More fun than you normally have on a Wednesday”
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| 12:02 |
Are sentences like “Before we move on to 2015, one more thought on the O’s-Rays conundrum. It might be tough to accept at face value that one club that finished 19 games behind another might actually have been a better club than the other” explicitly written in order to get Orioles fans riled up? |
| 12:03 |
: Nope. If the idea that single season team record is not a perfect model of a team’s true talent level offends you, perhaps you need to do more research on the variations in team record in a 162 game sample.
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| 4:07 |
: Hi everybody! Jeff and I will be here at 9 pm ET to cram baseball into every orifice. Baseball, and snow. Frankly, I’m at least 13 percent snow now.
See you soon! |
| 4:12 |
: Published the last poll twice by accident. Whoops!
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| 8:57 |
: If anyone wants to get their ‘nerd on’, they can follow the LABR mixed draft which should start at the same time as this chat. FanGraphs has two teams in it: http://rtsports.com/labr-mi…
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| 9:03 |
: ok lets do this like brutus
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| 9:03 |
: Word
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| 9:04 |
: Test
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| 9:04 |
: Hello friends |
| 9:04 |
: Welcome to live baseball chatting |
| 9:04 |
: Today I’ll be your tour guide through this chat, but not through any others. |
| 9:05 |
: I think I need to give the queue a minute to fill out because holy crap it’s the middle of February |
| 9:05 |
a week and a day until Pitchers and Catchers report to Spring Training !!.. wooot ! |
| 9:06 |
: Every year I check to see if this is exciting to me. Unfortunately, still no. It’s a milestone — it’s one more step having been taken toward the regular season — but I haaaaate spring training 🙁 |
| 12:01 |
: Happy afternoon start! Well, for those in the good time zone.
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| 12:02 |
: I woke up early for me and was surprisingly productive – wrote a Shields piece, set up some presidents *and* showed up for chat!
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| 12:02 |
When will I be able to export ZiPS projections into an excel spreadsheet for further analysis? |
| 12:02 |
: Not too long – weekend or early next week
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| 12:49 |
: Today’s schedule involved a bunch of calls and one got moved and one went shorter than expected so here I am. Good catchphrase, right?
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| 12:55 |
Have you heard of this Moncada guy? |
| 12:55 |
It’s that time of the week. Legit questions only, please |
| 12:55 |
: Nice to see the sarcasta-bots are out early today
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| 12:55 |
Any new predictions on where the Cubans land? |
| 12:56 |
: I wrote this one yesterday, so I hope I don’t change my mind that fast
In fairness I narrowed it down to two likely options, which is really the most you can do at this point. The other Cubans’ market is still wide open. |