| 11:44 |
: Hey!
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| 11:44 |
: I’ll be back soon!
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| 11:46 |
: In the meantime enjoy an oldie.
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| 11:47 |
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| 12:05 |
: Sorry! I’m here!
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| 12:05 |
Eno time! |
| 2:38 |
: Hey everyone, this is my first chat since joining FanGraphs, so let me get you caught up.
My job here is primarily to serve as something of a Site Educator. This means that I’m responsible for providing resources to readers about our data, advanced metrics, and how to make use of the features available at the site. It’s possible you’ve seen me around the various baseball parts of the internet. My Twitter handle is @NeilWeinberg44 and if you want to get in touch about these kinds of questions at times other than 3pm on Wednesdays, that’s where to find me. It’s my job, so take advantage of it. With that said, I will prioritize “how does this work?” and “what does this mean?” type questions during the chats, but feel free to ask regular questions about anything as well. Although if you’re here for fantasy advice or prospect talk, I’m probably less helpful than some of our writers. And if you’re here to discuss beer, I am literally the least useful person on our staff. Think that’s it, queue is open and we’ll start at 3pm! |
| 3:00 |
: Alright, let’s chat! I’ll probably hang out for an hour and fifteen minutes today, but will go longer most days if there are lots of questions.
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| 3:01 |
I can never find a direct link on the site for the Live Scoreboard Page. I always have to do a google search. Embarressing I know. Please point me in the right direction. Thanks! |
| 3:02 |
: This is a link to Sunday’s. http://www.fangraphs.com/sc…
What you want to do is go to FanGraphs and look for the “Score” tab at the top. Hover over that and then click the current year (so 2014) and it will take you to the current day. Unfortunately, I can’t show you this in action because today is a very dark day on the calendar. |
| 3:02 |
Why are there two different WARs. Why is fWAR better? |
| 3:04 |
: There are two different WARs (actually 3!) because there are different ways to measure certain aspects of performance. Typically, most of the hitting measurements will be the same, but the different sites have different ideas about how to properly measure defense and baserunning…and pitching for that matter. I prefer fWAR, but I recommend looking at all of them. I’ll put together an updated Glossary entry about this in the future to break out the exact details.
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| 11:35 |
: This week’s chat will probably be delayed by 10 or 15 minutes, as I’m reformatting the Trade Value post for today to return to the previous blurb style, as it appears preferable to a majority of the readers.
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| 11:35 |
: Apologies for the delay, but at least it comes with some benefit to you, unless you were one of the few who liked the experiment…
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| 12:25 |
: Alright, today’s trade value post is up. Only took an extra 1,000 words to do it blurb style. Hope you guys enjoy it, because man, blurbs are a lot more work.
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| 12:25 |
: I guess maybe I should provide a link: http://www.fangraphs.com/bl…
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| 12:25 |
: And let’s chat.
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| 12:25 |
What would be fair for the Players Association to ask for in return for banning smokeless tobacco in the next CBA? |
| 4:06 |
: Hi everybody! Tonight, since there’s this fancy game up in Minneapolis, the FanGraphs After Dark chat has been supersized into the All-Star Game Live Blog.
We’ll start earlier than usual, 8 pm ET, to coincide with the start of the game. I’m going to be flying solo on this one, because Jeff is off on a family vacation this week. So, I’m not sure I’ll last the whole game, especially if there are stupid rain delays like there were last night. But I’ll give it the ole’ college try! I’ve got some polls set up, and the queue is open. I’ll take the normal questions we take each week too, if you want to ask those. But we’ll try to focus on the action, Jackson. See you soon! |
| 7:57 |
: Hi guys. Just settling in. We’ll get started in a few minutes.
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| 7:59 |
I was expecting a chat, but I get a live blog instead. This is probably the highlight of my week… |
| 7:59 |
: Me too!
Well, I am going to a De La Soul concert on Thursday, but this is right up there! |
| 8:00 |
How good is Cutch? His numbers are unreal am I reading them right. |
| 8:00 |
: You are in fact reading them right.
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| 9:04 |
: Hello there, friends
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| 9:04 |
: Hello there, friends of friends
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| 9:04 |
: Let’s chat baseball. I chat at a slower rate than Dave does for a variety of reasons. Don’t ask me fantasy baseball questions because I don’t know how to answer them. You know, the usual stuff
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| 9:05 |
Thoughts on Aiken and the Astros? |
| 9:06 |
: From the outsider perspective, it’s easy to say, oh, they’re just trying to make the numbers work, and they found something of a medical facilitation. But while I don’t know the severity of what Aiken might be dealing with, it sure seems like he isn’t really hurt, so I understand why people are upset
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| 9:07 |
: I think it was Olney who was talking about what Aiken might get paid as a free agent. Which is interesting, but also unhelpful since all high draft picks would get bank as free agents
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| 11:57 |
: We built this city, we build this city, we build this city for economy of scale and more efficiently administered public service.
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| 11:58 |
: You thought I was going to say rock and roll. But that’s a poor reason to form a city, there’s no particular governmental unit that’s more suited to rock and roll.
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| 11:59 |
: But let’s start out with our usual business.
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| 12:01 |
Thanks for chatting, Dan! How would you configure the O’s rotation out of the break? |
| 8:39 |
: What’s up, everybody? I’ll be with you at the top of the hour, looking forward to answering some questions.
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| 9:01 |
: Rock n roll
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| 9:01 |
Not sure if you can answer during the chat, but here’s an interesting question: What’s the longest hitting streak during which the guy’s AVG was under .300? |
| 9:01 |
: You’re correct, haha, that’s something for Google or a greater power.
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| 9:01 |
I traded Votto for Lawrie. Talk me off the ledge that it wasn’t a bad deal. Not keeping either of them and have Rizzo/VMart. |
| 9:02 |
: Not bad at all. Could turn out to be a good deal, you’re in good shape at 1B already it seems.
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| 11:40 |
: will be here at noon ET, but enjoy some Drums
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| 12:00 |
: Hey Ho Let’s Go
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| 12:00 |
Eno, good day. Do I throw Hudson out there today? Thanks. |
| 12:00 |
: Yes I trust him, and this offense can be pitched to.
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| 12:00 |
Do you think Junior Lake ever figures things out? The guy has great physical tools, but no plate discipline. |
| 11:45 |
: The All-Star Break is almost here, so you know what that means; the trade value list is next week! Oh, you didn’t know that’s what that means? Well, that’s what it means to me anyway.
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| 11:45 |
: The queue is now open, so feel free to get your questions in now, and we’ll chat starting at noon or so.
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| 12:01 |
Are there any bats on the market (outside of Zobrist) that could help St. Louis, or are they kind of on their own offensively? |
| 12:02 |
: I think acquiring either a Zobrist-type or a third baseman who could push Carpenter back to second base is their best path forward.
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| 12:02 |
Hey Dave. Can you explain how to scale FIP to runs allowed? I’m trying to replicate the walkthrough but it’s hard to follow. |
| 12:03 |
: Short answer is divide by .92. The league average earned runs to total runs ratio is usually right around there.
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| 6:43 |
: Hi everybody!
I’m sure you didn’t miss us last week, but we missed you. Join us at 9 pm ET, when hopefully word of a Jake Peavy trade will have leaked and I’ll finally have some good Red Sox news to digest! Until then, fill up the queue. See you soon! |
| 8:58 |
Germany just scored again. 9-1. |
| 9:01 |
: Breaking newz: Royals sign J. Buck and A. Soriano
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| 9:02 |
: More Breaking news: Steve Lyons has no idea what he’s talking about.
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| 9:02 |
Really hard up for power. Should I stash Alfonso Soriano and hope for the best…or add a player like Cory Hart or Mike Moustakas (UTIL spot)? Thanks. |
| 9:02 |
: If those are your options, I’d just stash Soriano.
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