Eno Sarris: Will be here in 14!

Eno Sarris: Lyrics of the day are actually the frigging chorus. But yeah, it’s a bit obscure.

Sunny, sunny, sunny whether
Joely wasn’t altogether true
Still our cousin knew
I, I, I, I, no, I, I, I, me me me me
More I want to
Bren coughed boo hoo hoo

Eno Sarris: Also, if I leave or disappear abruptly, I’m sorry. David Walker from Firestone Walker is supposed to call me about the BeerGraphs meetup tomorrow, and, well, yeah.

Comment From Simon
Camped out for your chat trying to get in early bfore lineups lock. I feel like I’m waiting in line over night at K-Mart for tickets to see the Rolling Stones – yeah, I’m that old! Anyway…

Pick 2 of the following streamers with the best ERA/WHIP
Hughes a SEA (Harang),
M. Gonzalez @ HOU (Norris),
Pettitte , a SEA (Saunders),
Jackson v PIT (Burnett)
Phelps a SEA (F. Hernandez)

Eno Sarris: You are first. So you get an answer! It’s like getting tickets in the front row! or something. I like Pettite and Phelps. Hughes scares me a bit. Like he’s looking for something.

Comment From Swoon
Gorgeous Peter Bourjos, expectations for him ROS? Can you also please tell him to actually try and steal once and awhile, since he is so fast. He also has pretty eyes.

Dave Cameron: The queue is now open. We’ll definitely talk about the BioGenesis report, but I’ll be honest, I don’t have that much to say about it at this point. So hopefully you’ll ask about other things too.

Comment From Keith
So what do the Royals do from here? Trade Butler, Gordon and Shields and start over…again?

Dave Cameron: My guess is they’ll do very little in season and Dayton Moore will be fired during the off-season, leading to a new regime and maybe a new plan.

Comment From JEB
I think the big news here is that Chris Perez was picked up last night for recreational drugs!

Dave Cameron: Chris Perez just seems to do so many things wrong.

Comment From Greg
Should the White Sox be looking to trade Sale at the trade deadline to rebuild their system?

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! Just another day around here at FanGraphs. I was busy pulling off the steal of the ESPN Franchise Player Draft:

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9341222/jurickson-profar-steal-franchise-player-draft-mlb

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/franchise130603/espn-franchise-player-draft

And Jeff was busy introducing a new and very helpful injury finder:

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/mash-report-6413-introducing-hidden-hitter-injury-finder

And Chris? Well, Chris is still on vacation, so he’s useless. But Jeff and I are putting in enough work to cover for him. And we’re STILL ready to do more work for you, the people. Join us at 9 pm ET and we’ll cram some baseball down your cramholes!

Paul Swydan: By the way, we’re taking suggestions for Jeff’s injury tool. Early front runners are the reader-suggested acryonyms HURT Score (Hitter’s Under-performance from Recent Trauma), or PAIN (Player’s Abiding Injury Number).

Paul Swydan: Hi guys, let’s do this! Sorry if you couldn’t submit questions for awhile, I closed my computer like a dum-dum. But the phone lines are open now!

Comment From Doo bob
Subtracted Performance Runs After Injury Notice (SPRAIN)

Paul Swydan: That’s a good one. Jeff will be along in a sec, btw.

Comment From Roster Rooster
How about F-HIM (Forecaster of Hidden Injury Metric)

Jeff Sullivan: New excuse for this today!

Jeff Sullivan: I lost my contact lenses!

Jeff Sullivan: I found them though. And now we can begin our customary baseball live chat about baseball.

Comment From Steve
It’s past 12:03! Jeff must be dead!

Jeff Sullivan: I couldn’t see 🙁

Comment From Jimr
Is the 3rd base issue settled with the Braves?

Dan Szymborski: LION-O, IT’S TIME FOR DAN SHIMBORSHKEY’S WEEKLY CHAT SNARF SNARF!

Comment From Chris
I missed your scent. I missed your musk… When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together!

Dan Szymborski: I haven’t showered yet today, so you probably don’t actually miss my musky scents.

Comment From Jonathan Broxtons Belt
Am I the most underrated player in the league?

Dan Szymborski: Heh.

Dan Szymborski: Perhaps whatever’s keeping C.C. Sabathia’s pants up

Mike Newman: Hello all, thanks for joining me today! We’ll get started in about 15-minutes. While you wait, please check out my piece from earlier today on June leaders for the top prospect in baseball heading into 2014.http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/whos-the-no-1-prospect-june-edition/

Mike Newman: Also, last week I angered a few readers who ripped me a new one for getting frustrated at chatters for not reading up on my work before asking questions. I wanted to apologize for that.

Mike Newman: You know what. I’m here, questions are in the queue, let’s get this started a little early….

Eno Sarris: here in seven

Eno Sarris: lyrics of the day! I actually think this guy sounds like Bruce Springsteen on quaaludes. Am I crazy?

Everything I love is on the table
Everything I love is out to sea

Comment From person hscer
I picked Ryan Zimmerman and Eric Stults in Fangraphs The Game yesterday. Go me. If only I had picked Dioner Navarro, but at least Erik Kratz hit ONE HR.

Eno Sarris: Grats

Comment From FIFA
Hi ES, approximate date of J-Fer shutdown? thanks.

Eno Sarris: I think he can throw 150 IP this year.

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

Comment From Jeff From Austin
What in the world would you do with Bossman Junior?

Dave Cameron: Play him and wait for the slump to end. It’s just a slump, and it will end.

Comment From the Gregorius D.I.D.(i)
if you were the O’s would you demote Gausman at this point or let him keep taking his lumps at the MLB level?

Dave Cameron: It’s two starts.

Comment From Ryan
The Cardinals, Reds and Pirates (tied with Texas) have the 3 best records in baseball. How many (and which ones) make the playoffs?

Carson Cistulli: Paul Swydan has bullied me into posting this notice for the After Dark Chat, which will — according to inveterate bully Paul Swydan — begin at ca. 9pm ET.

If history is any indication, some combination of Chris Cwik and Jeff Zimmerman will be involved.

If history is any other sort of indication, the hosts of this chat will answer your — yes YOUR — questions.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody! Sorry, I left the house earlier this evening without posting the chat. Many, many thanks to Carson for being so kind. Say something nice about Carson in the comments.

Unfortunately, Chris and Jeff are out of commission for awhile, so I’m flying solo tonight. Keep the questions coming, and I’ll see you soon!

Comment From Hitler But Sadder
I have cleared my schedule for this.

Paul Swydan: I have too. And since it’s just me, let’s start this thang early.

Comment From Mr. Ca$hman
Thoughts on Michael Brantley ROS?

Paul Swydan: I don’t really think Brantley is doing much different in a positive way. He’s hitting far more ground balls, which may be responsible for the uptick in his BABIP. Now, there’s a chance that that is sustainable, but given his past rates I’d expect it to come down some. His BB/K is also way down, which isn’t a positive marker.

Jeff Sullivan: Whoa. Is this chat going to start on time?

Jeff Sullivan: Sort of! Let’s do it!

Comment From Jack
Do you know anything about the NF (nasty factor) measurement of each pitch on MLB Gameday screen? I presume it is some combination of velocity, location and movement. Is this something worth keeping an eye on when trying to judge a pitcher’s performance? If so, can we get it tracked on Fangraphs?

Jeff Sullivan: I don’t know if they’ve changed NF over the years since it was introduced, but when it was newer, I remember Matthew Carruth did some investigation and he found it was basically worthless.

Jeff Sullivan: It’s a neat idea, but pitching is too complicated and pitch effectiveness relies too much on the pitches before and the pitches after. And PITCHf/x doesn’t know anything about deception. So their heart is in the right place, but this isn’t a stat to look at.

Comment From JFK
Julio Urias from LA , top of the rotation projection?