Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to the May 4th edition of my chat. While the queue fills up, I’m going to take a moment to bang out an Instagraphs entry on some very exciting news: ESPN and the Korea Baseball Organization have struck a deal to carry English-language broadcasts — one a day, six days a week. Yes, for most of us, the hours will be inconvenient, but if you have a TiVO or DVR you can time-shift and watch at your convenience, which is what I’ll be doing when I can. More details shortly.

Jay Jaffe: and I’m back

Jay Jaffe: Sorry for the delay, but that news is too exciting not to share. Anyway, on with the chat…

E: Without looking, where does Adrian Beltre rank in all time hitter WAR?

Jay Jaffe: (without looking): easily within the top 50.

(looking via B-Ref): 27th all-time.

(looking via FanGraphs): 33rd all-time.

mmddyyyy: Is peak score consecutive years?

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning, everyone. I’ve gotta fix a data entry issue on The Board very quickly and I’ll be right with you.

Eric A Longenhagen: OKay, thanks for bearing with me. Rangers and White Sox bonus amounts should be populated on The Board shortly.

Eric A Longenhagen: Hope everyone’s as well as can be. Let’s escape into some baseball discussion for a while…

white sox logjam: between Abreu/Vaughn and Collins/Mercedes/Adolfo it seems the white sox have a big time pileup at 1B/DH spots. Which of the latter three do you think other teams would be most interested in for a trade?

Eric A Longenhagen: If you think one of Yermin or Collins either can or will soon be able to catch than you probably prefer that one. I think that’s Collins. But if you think neither or both then you want the one you feel has the best chance to hit, and I think you can make arguments for either of them at that point.

hurtado: Mask of the Phantasm only a 50? Are you high?

Dan Szymborski: And here we go!

Dan: Is there a way to enter our own stats and see what is projected? Is recently found my little league stats and was curios what the system would say if a prospect had 22 K/9 0 BB/9 one year 6 K/9 4 BB/9 the next.

Dan Szymborski: Heh, no little league stats in ZiPS

BASEBALL SZN: I know you are/were a big HearthStone fan.  Have you tried Gwent?  I made the switch recently and am hooked real, real hard.

Dan Szymborski: I have, though I do tend to play HS the most.

Sweet Spot: At this rate, what would your ideal season look like in terms of games played, location, playoffs, etc?

Meg Rowley: Hi everyone – we’ll get started shortly.

Meg Rowley: A couple of things to highlight from today.

Meg Rowley: Since our initial update on the state of the site in the wake of baseball’s delay, many of our readers have asked for an update on how FanGraphs is doing. Here’s the latest from David Appelman: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/a-fangraphs-business-update/

Meg Rowley: Thank you so much to everyone who has become a member, gifted a membership to another reader, bought a t-shirt, or read the site!

Meg Rowley: We remain very grateful for this community.

Meg Rowley: Ben continued his look at past World Series tactics: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/wild-world-series-tactics-2001-2003/

Jay Jaffe: Hello folks, and welcome to my first Monday chat in a few weeks. While I wait for the queue to fill up, a couple of things…

Jay Jaffe: First, I have a tribute to the legendary Steve Dalkowski, who passed away on April 19. The accounts of his career are voluminous, for he threw faster and harder than perhaps any other pitcher who has come along — but he lacked control, both on and off the fieldhttps://blogs.fangraphs.com/remembering-steve-dalkowski-perhaps-the-fa…

Jay Jaffe: Second, I have a CPBL-related piece in the pipeline for later this week

Jay Jaffe: Third, THE DUMPLING PLACE IS OPEN AGAIN, OH FABULOUS DAY

Jay Jaffe: (I have been jonesing for several varieties of Asian food but those restaurants in my area were the first to shutter)

Jay Jaffe: OK, now, on with the show

Eric A Longenhagen: Good morning from the Valley of the Sun where they lost an Aiyuk and gained a Simmons last night. Draft rankings are updated and over on The Board (you know where that is by now), hope everyone is hanging in there, let’s chat.

Greg: Cole Wilcox seems really impressive on paper. Good frame, throws hard, good changeup and improving breaking ball. What am I missing that’s keeping him out of the top 10?

Eric A Longenhagen:

1. quality of the rest of the class
2. shorter track record due to soph elig & fresh time in bullpen
3. fastball shape

bk: The Seahawks organization continues to be propped up by having a HOF QB, and his presence has given coach/GM eternal job security.

Eric A Longenhagen: I think that’s probably true. Brooks’ tape vs is strong, the rest was just okay

Chamaco: Martin and Tork are both FV55s, but where would they rank on THE BOARD among the FV55s? Also, what are their likely ETAs?