Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat – 5/17/21
by Ben Clemens
May 17, 2021
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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 5/14/21
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 Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks! Welcome to another edition of my Friday chat. It’s a gorgeous day here in Brooklyn, and I’ve already treated myself to tacos al fresco so my mood is more chipper than Larry Jones.
Today I’ve got a piece on the very different COVID-19 outbreaks of the Padres and Yankees, https://blogs.fangraphs.com/even-amid-vaccinations-outbreaks-on-padres… |
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Jay Jaffe: Earlier this week, I wrote about Max Scherzer’s pursuit of 3,000 strikeouts, and who might be next https://blogs.fangraphs.com/max-scherzer-and-the-coming-wave-of-3000-s…
The scourge of the runner-on-second extra innings rule https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-runner-on-second-in-extras-rule-has-wo… And yet another Byron Buxton injury https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-twins-lose-byron-buxton-again-but-thei… |
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Jay Jaffe: Anywho, let’s get the show on the road…
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: Why do teams like the Marlins, Cardinals, and Nats get games postponed due to outbreaks while the Padres are forced to play with a AAA squad? Anti-Padre bias?
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Jay Jaffe: The difference, as I noted in today’s piece, is that the vast majority of the Padres (and also the Yankees) are vaccinated and thus there’s far less fear of a team-wide outbreak, whereas that wasn’t the case even for the Nationals in April. It’s actually a bit messed up when you think about the possibility of *dis*incentivizing vaccinations, but that’s not to say that the league wouldn’t have nudged the Padres to play if they were really lagging behind
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: Cilantro/onion or lettuce/tomato/cheese?
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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 5/13/21
May 13, 2021
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 Dan Szymborski: THE APPOINTED TIME FOR CHATS HAS ARRIVE
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: Who does ZiPS have as the most cromulent current player in the MLB?
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Dan Szymborski: I dunno. Starlin Castro?
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Dan Szymborski: He’s not good
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Dan Szymborski: Well, not REALLY good
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Dan Szymborski: but he’s acceptable
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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 5/7/21
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Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon and Happy Bartolo Colon Home Run Day to you all!
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Jay Jaffe: It’s the fifth anniversary of this magnificent shot https://www.mlb.com/video/colon-s-first-career-homer-c669896583
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Jay Jaffe: which, as I explained in this Twitter thread, holds special significance at Casa Jaffe-Span
Happy Bartolo Home Run Day to those celebrating. It’s an important holiday at Casa Jaffe-Span. When he homered, Emma was 6 months pregnant with our daughter, whose “nom de womb” became Bartola (1/x)
If I had been at this game, the urge to circle the bases with him like they did with Henry Aaron would have been overwhelming
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Jay Jaffe: My piece on the Angels’ DFA of Albert Pujols just went up a short time ago https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-angels-finally-bite-the-bullet-by-cutt…
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Jay Jaffe: It follows a piece I did just yesterday on how bad their defense has been https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-angels-rotation-woes-have-a-lot-to-do-…
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Jay Jaffe: Anyway, on with the show!
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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 5/6/21
May 6, 2021
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: Trent Grisham is good. But is it possible he might be under the radar, star level good?
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Dan Szymborski: He’s certainly *played* like a star the last 80ish games now. I’m not convinced that he’s quite that good, but he’s certainly proving me wrong.
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| 12:03 |
: So, the Dodgers – what the hell’s going on???
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Dan Szymborski: I should note they have a 20-12 pythag record, which equates to a 101-win schedule. And that’s going to be far more predictive than their current record is
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| 12:05 |
: What is going on with all of the league wide injuries? Pandemic short season related? Pitchers throwing harder than ever? SSS?
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Dan Szymborski: I haven’t looked at injury rate compared to previous Aprils, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the weird 2020 made things riskier.
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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 5/5/2021
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: Hi all, and thanks for stopping by. Let’s get rolling on the chat.
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| 4:00 |
: Who starts Game 1 of the 2021 ALCS for the Mariners?
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| 4:01 |
: All right now settle down.
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| 4:01 |
: I encourage everyone to take joy where they can find it and revel in good starts and also, not set yourself up for disappointment.
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| 4:02 |
: Pls give the magic hitting juice. I need.
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| 4:05 |
: If it makes you feel any better, they are slightly underperforming their baseruns but yeah, it’s been an unwelcome swoon. I don’t expect it to be a sustained swoon, but yeah, would be good for Machado and Cronenworth to get going.
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