Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat – 3/9/20
by Ben Clemens
March 9, 2020
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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 3/9/20
| 12:35 |
 Jay Jaffe: Hey folks, sorry for the delay, which will extend just a few more minutes. I just filed a piece on the Astros’ rotation question marks behind Justin Verlander, who left yesterday’s start with a triceps complaint. Let me get situated and I’ll begin tackling the questions.
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| 12:41 |
Jay Jaffe: OK, i’m back. White knuckle Monday morning spilling into afternoon, but lunch (sushi) is on the way and so are some answers.
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| 12:41 |
: Congrats on your promotion to EIC! What big, sweeping changes will rock the site under your rule?
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| 12:42 |
Jay Jaffe: LOL I was misidentified as the EIC this morning in a tweet promoting my appearance on Chicago’s 670 The Score, but co-host Connor McKnight set the record straight:
@jay_jaffe We at this Twitter account sincerely regret the error and apologize, profusely, to @megrowler @fangraphs and baseball fans everywhere.
We do, however, appreciate the conversation and the irony of a non-editor editing the tweet. |
| 12:43 |
: Are you worried about Verlander (scale of 1-10)?
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| 12:44 |
Jay Jaffe: i’d say maybe 3-4 on a scale of 10. The comparison has been made to his 2015 absence, which lasted into mid-June, but the Tigers appear to have mishandled the initial diagnosis and he also strained a lat during rehab. If I’m throwing out a wild guess before the MRI results come in, I think this points to him starting the season on the injured list but returning by mid- to late April.
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Eric Longenhagen Chat: 3/6/2020
| 12:01 |
: Morning from Tempe. I’m gonna keep it tight to the hour today so I can, among other things, watch Kiley on today’s ESPN spring training broadcast.
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| 12:03 |
: Looking forward to the Jays list! What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned after making calls about the system?
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| 12:04 |
: That aside from Pearson, Roither Hernandez is the hardest-throwing dude in the system.
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| 12:04 |
: Curious why Nick Green didn’t make the Yankees list? Not a great 2019, but he was a guy FG had been fairly high on at one time.
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| 12:04 |
: Could’ve been a 35. Like the ground ball-getting stuff, but two years of command regression on a 24y/o isn’t great
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| 12:04 |
: Likelihood that Franklin Perez debuts in DET this season?
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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 3/3/2020
| 2:00 |
: Hello all, and welcome to the chat
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| 2:01 |
: Hope everyone is having a good week amongst all the stressful Real World things – a few baseball-related distractions:
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| 2:01 |
: Jay wrote about Cole Hamels and the Braves rotation: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/cole-hamels-cranky-shoulder-will-test-brav…
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| 2:02 |
: Craig has a double feature. First, on the Mets’ outfield situation: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-cardinals-messy-outfield-situation/
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| 2:02 |
: then on the injuries befalling the AL East: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/injuries-are-throwing-the-al-east-for-a-lo…
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| 2:03 |
: Also, yesterday Ben Clemens took a look at the dramatic spin spike Trevor Bauer saw last September: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/trevor-bauer-might-have-conducted-another-…
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Eric Longenhagen Chat: 2/28/20
| 12:02 |
: Good morning, everyone. Let me tweet a chat link and we’ll get started.
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| 12:03 |
: Alrighty then
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| 12:04 |
: Let’s do some links…
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| 12:04 |
: I was on the inaugural Keith Law Show over on The Athletic which they somehow cut down to 40 minutes. https://theathletic.com/podcast/168-the-keith-law-show/
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| 12:05 |
: I did FanGraphs audio https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-audio-a-dispatch-from-prospect-w…
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| 12:06 |
: There are two new lists which can be accessed via the prospects homepage https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects
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