Ariel Cohen: Hi everyone, welcome to the winner-take-all game of the 2020 NLCS! I’m Ariel Cohen – creator of the ATC Projections found right here on FanGraphs https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/the-2020-atc-projections/. You can also follow me on Twitter at @ATCNY.

Ariel Cohen: I’ll be chatting along with David Laurila and Eric Longenhagen.

Ariel Cohen: Braves Lineup
1. Ronald Acuna Jr. (R) RF
2. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
3. Marcell Ozuna (R) DH
4. Travis d’Arnaud (R) C
5. Ozzie Albies (S) 2B
6. Dansby Swanson (R) SS
7. Austin Riley (R) 3B
8. Nick Markakis (L) LF
9. Cristian Pache (R) CF
Ian Anderson (R) P

Ariel Cohen: Dodgers Lineup
1. Mookie Betts (R) RF
2. Corey Seager (L) SS
3. Justin Turner (R) 3B
4. Max Muncy (L) 1B
5. Will Smith (R) C
6. Cody Bellinger (L) CF
7. AJ Pollock (R) LF
8. Joc Pederson (L) DH
9. Chris Taylor (R) 2B
Dustin May (R) P

Zon: Thanks for hosting this chat.

Ariel Cohen: Its Game 7! Excited to be here!

Meg Rowley: Hi everyone – thanks for chatting with us! We’ll be getting started here shortly.

Thurman15: Brandon Lowe batting in the 5 slot is not wise.  He is a lefty against Framber (a lefty).  And Lowe has been horrendous in the playoffs.

Meg Rowley: Lowe has been in a slump, but this year was actually better against lefties, and has a 127 career wRC+ against LHP.

Meg Rowley: Also a good chance to plug Ben’s piece on Lowe! https://blogs.fangraphs.com/is-brandon-lowe-broken/

Lzfreak: Baseball!

Meg Rowley: Base. Ball.

Dan Szymborski: Greetings chatters and chat-readers

Dan Szymborski: Because not ALL OF YOU are actually chatting. Some are reading the chats.

Dan Szymborski: But does being a chatter require participation? Or is passive chatting allowed? That’s a philosophical question.

Guest: How do the Dodgers feel about the AJ Pollock contract right now?

Dan Szymborski: I’m sure they’re not pleased as punch, but they can spend somewhat inefficiently and survive. And how many teams are better at getting use out of limited, underperforming players than the Dodgers?

Ryan: As a Reds fan, I would have loved to see Joe Morgan play, but alas, he was before my time.  Who is the one player from the past you would have most liked to see in person?

Dan Szymborski: It is a time for baseball.

Brendan Gawlowski: Hello baseball world

Brendan Gawlowski: Quite a matchup we have tonight

Dan Szymborski: I’m just glad we got *a* Game 5!

Guest: So how do we think the Glasnow start will pan out?

Dan Szymborski: Between two and four runs allowed, margin of error six!

Ben Clemens: Hey everyone, welcome to our ALDS chat for the day.

Ben Clemens: The A’s and Astros are about to get started, with Oakland’s metaphorical back against the metaphorical wall

Ben Clemens: Liam Hendriks threw roughly 8 trillion pitches yesterday (I didn’t count) but will probably be available today

Paul Sporer: What’s up, y’all?

scott: KEEP HOPING AND DREAMING AND YOU…..WILL…..SOOOAAARRRR

Ben Clemens: We’ll also talk about the NL games b/c why not

Dan Szymborski: Hello!

Guest: So many Dudebros in that Fox pre-game studio.

Eric A Longenhagen: howdy, all

Dan Szymborski: Welcome to our NLDS Game 1 Chat! Which you have likely figured out from the link that was titled as such!

Grant: What noise would be louder in the event of an Astros-Yankees ALCS – collective groans of fans, or cheers of FOX execs?

Dan Szymborski: I imagine a Marlins-A’s World Series would cause Depression-era panic at Fox.

Ben Clemens: Hey everyone, welcome to our chat for ALDS Game 1.

Ben Clemens: Today it will be Dan and I manning the chat stations (definitely just our computers).

Ben Clemens: If you’d like a preview of the series, conveniently enough, Dan wrote it:

Dan Szymborski: And I am here!

Ben Clemens: Er, he’s previewing the later ALDS game

Ben Clemens: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/al-division-series-preview-houston-astros-…

Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks! Welcome to today’s Wild Card Series Day 2 chat. I’ll be joined here by Dan Szymborski, Tony Wolfe and maybe Meg Rowley in due course

Jay Jaffe: we’re all going to have baseball coming out of our ears by the time today is over

Jay Jaffe: Reds-Braves is already going, Astros-Twins about to start, Marlins Cubs at 2 pm ET, White Sox-A’s at 3, Blue Jays-Rays at 4, C, Cardinals-Padres at 5

Jay Jaffe: (pauses to catch breath)

Jay Jaffe: Yankees-Indians at 7 ET, and finally Dodgers-Brewers at 10

James: I’ve been a Padre fan for the past 12 years and this is the first time I’ve seen my team in the playoffs. So, I cannot understate how sad I am that both Clevenger and Lamet will not be pitching in this series.