Eno Sarris Baseball Chat — 10/29/15

Eno Sarris: Nervous. Surprising my wife with tickets to a show with Death Cab, Foals, Weezer — sweet — but also CHVRCHES and Silversun, which I know she doesn’t like. Also don’t know how much she loves surprises lol. Oh well, tickets are bought, sitters ready.

Eno Sarris:

Comment From Pat
What are some indicators you look for to find the draft steals like Keuchel was this year? Any early names on your watch list for next year?

Eno Sarris: I look for elite pitches and good pitching mixes and pitching mix changes. Jared Eickhoff has an elite pitch. Nate Eovaldi has the pitching mix change. As for the good mixes, I’ll have to dive in a little harder in the coming weeks.

Comment From Art Vandelay
I’m assuming you’re talking about NSSN. The only thing I don’t like about it is with cramming so many acts into one night, aren’t all the sets going to be only four or five songs long?

Eno Sarris: I am worried about that too. But I saw something about a 530 gate, so maybe it’s just a little long.

Comment From hscer
sabr.org/sdi/ doesn’t count for enough for us to start taking GG’s more seriously, apparently – some positional league leaders not making the list of finalists

Eno Sarris: Too bad, you still have to hit your way into a gold glove, huh?

Comment From Hollandback Girl
When evaluating pitching coaches, could one look at a pitchers groundball rates, 2- strike pitch approach, change in pitch usage, etc. to determine how much the pitching coach has done. For example looking at Rubby de la Rosa last year versus how he will perform this year under two different coaches?

Eno Sarris: That’s not bad. You definitely have to look at ‘approach’ peripherals rather than outcomes. For hitters I looked at o-swing, swing, and z-swing mostly.

Comment From LarryA
Sorry Eno, My wife says deGrom would be much better looking without the hair. I happen to think the same for thor…

Eno Sarris: I think Thor’s hair is pretty meh actually. And deGrom’s is actually a little long for me.

Comment From file under musicphile
Seems like an excellent surprise! just make out in the bathroom while CHVRCHES and Silversun are on. Problem solved.

Eno Sarris: With two young kids at home waiting, this is a possibility.

Comment From Art Vandelay
So AA is out in Toronto…does someone pick him up as an assistant GM? Or does he just wait until another job opens? (Assuming teams are actually interested in hiring him, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t be.)

Eno Sarris: He’ll get a job somewhere. He may have to take a ‘laying in wait’ job like diPoto did. Just to get the timing right. The fact that Shapiro scolded him for selling his prospects rubs me the wrong way. Unless Shapiro wanted him out, he ignores the fact that these were the prospects that AA built up, and he used them because he had a window.

Comment From Luke
Odds the Mets come back? 15%? 20%? Give some hope to a fan with tickets to games 3 and 5.

Eno Sarris: We’ve got them at 18%, so your nose was in the right place. It’s not the craziest thing that has happened in the World Series, coming back from 2-0 down, even from two games that turned out as badly as those two did for the Mets. AT least Game 1 wasn’t a rout?

Comment From LarryA
Smh at fox last night showing the improvement in Murphys stance from 2014 to 2015, as if hes been so much better all year over 2014.

Eno Sarris: And ignoring the fact that it made him vulnerable in another way, when we saw the front door sinkers that Murphy is going to start getting now.

Comment From LarryA
Has Reynolds stopped comparing Yoenis to Mays yet?

Comment From Doug
Your wife told me months ago that she reads your chats religiously…

Comment From Shawn
Had my first Ale Smith X last night based on your recommendation. Wonderful! I could drink it all day, every day

Eno Sarris: up and down interlude to start the day.

Comment From Optimetstic
Normally I would be terrified putting the ball in the hand of a rookie in an absolute must-win game 3. But Syndergaard has the stuff and poise to get the job done. I just wish the Met hitters were as aggressive at the plate as the Royals hitters.

Eno Sarris: I was thinking about this. It’s possible that Thor’s curve is the best non-fastball among the three frontline starters, right? I may write about this.

Eno Sarris: But asking the Mets hitters to be more aggressive is forgetting that their discipline is their strength.

Comment From Lamar Odoms nose candy
Eno! Do you think the Texas rotation is good enough to win a WS if they keep what they have now….Darvish, Hamels, Holland, Martin, and Lewis

Eno Sarris: I’m no fan of the last three, honestly. Holland’s change is turrible and he needs to work on the curve. Martin has no breaker. Lewis is a Chris Young type. They need to sign a starter at least.

Comment From Eddie Brock
What kind of interest do you see Byung-ho Park and Kenta Maeda garnering?

Eno Sarris: Maeda will get all the interest if his team is going to post him, which is possible but not probable? Park is more of a DH than Kang, so has a higher bust rate and may not get much more money than Kang did.

Comment From Anthony
What’s your take on Bud Black becoming the Nationals manager? Also is there any consensus on him from players you’ve talked to?

Eno Sarris: Love the dude. Happy for him. Players love him. Everyone loves him. Was very surprised when he was let go in San Diego.

Comment From Waiting Until Next Year
I mean, EVERYONE knew the Mets offense wasn’t sustainable, right?

Eno Sarris: Hard to say that, given the fact that the personnel had changed so much. How do you peg the true talent of an evolving roster? The better players in the second half hit better. That didn’t seem like a crazy thing.

Comment From Shawn
Careful, if they play long enough you may have a 3rd child on the way!

Eno Sarris: good god no please no two is too much

Comment From L. Scott
There seemed to be a big dip in SB in 2015. This is after another big dip following 2013. Should guys like Pollock, Cain, Heyward, and Blackmon be even more valuable now?

Eno Sarris: Yeah there are fewer stolen bases in the game, and maybe we have to value the 20 SB guys higher. Here’s one problem: they age terribly and all of those guys are post-peak for SBs.

Comment From Marcus Banks
Who would you rather have on your team – peak Pujols or peak Rickey?

Eno Sarris: Without looking at WAR or wRC+ or any of that, I’ll take Pujols. I loved how he walked more than he struck out and walloped the ball even in a pitcher’s park. He was droolsome.

Comment From Marcus Banks
My main man!!!!

Comment From Aunt Jessie
Hey Eno you so fine, you so fine you blow my mind, HEY ENO! (You and your readers can thank me for that earworm later. =)

Comment From Aunt Jessie
Eno! You are not the only one who misidentifies Royals players! I lol’d. http://www.sbnation.com/loo…

Eno Sarris: This lude was brought to you by my low opinion of myself. Thanks for the help.

Comment From Vic
deGrom often has terrible innings in which he gives up his game’s allotment of earned runs in a single inning. Anything to make of that?

Eno Sarris: Could be a sequencing thing. Like, he’s too predictable later in games. Maybe a year of learning from him and TdA is the key.

Comment From Meano Eno
Is Taylor Jungmann good or bad

Eno Sarris: He has an elite pitch in that curveball. Everything else is meh.

Comment From Marty
Ok, so never made it to Lawson’s in VT, but they distribute locally now. Have you had Finest Sip of Sunshine IPA or Super Session #2 yet?

Eno Sarris: No, I love Sip of Sunshine though.

Comment From Bork
Oh man, what if Duquette goes to the Jays as GM and Anthopolous goes to the Orioles?

Eno Sarris: Like some sort of weird white man key party.

Comment From Jimmy
How does Brad Miller’s value compare to Ozuna’s? Could the Mariners swing a three team trade and get their CF?

Eno Sarris: This can only happen if the Marlins think Miller is a shortstop. Many/most don’t think so, but it’s not yet out of the realm of possibility.

Comment From Dr Johnny Fever
is there a more polarizing player for fantasy purposes than Billy Hamilton?

Eno Sarris: Went on the radio in Cincinnati a couple times this year and conversation always turned to him, so he’s polarizing and frustrating to real-life people, too. Kind of an old-school skillset. If he hadn’t come to switch-hitting so late in his career, I would think he might be a defensive replacement / low in order against lefties guy. I’d give him another year before saying he’s just that though.

Comment From Prince Wednesday
Do you think it’s a possibility that the Royals organization puts more focus and resources into scouting to identify tipping pitches than other clubs? Not totally discounting the hitters and their approaches, but if they have more of that type of info, they should be fooled by pitches less frequently, which I’d think would result in better contact %.

After talk of deGrom tipping last night, plus the detailed explanation of how they scouted Price and figured out his tells, I wonder if this is somewhat of an organizational philosophy that has contributed to their success at the plate.

Eno Sarris: That might be an interesting thing to uncover. There is a radically different approach to advance pro scouting in each organization. Some have slashed funding, others have one front office guy doing it for the whole team. And then there’s the Pirates, who have Dan Fox basically turning advance scouting into a whole different thing, a liaison between the front office and the players, and a hybrid role.

Comment From Nam Cewton
How much would you charge me per hour to drink a beer and talk baseball with you?

Eno Sarris: The cost of the beers I drink should be enough. Maybe an uber home.

Comment From Nadia
How should the Mets change their offence approach? After all, they can’t rely on SP only?

Eno Sarris: To some extent I think they were surprised by being good this year. Then they didn’t want to give up top prospects or major league talent to get better. A year of Conforto in lineup / improving will help. A couple of free agent signings could help offense and bullpen.

Comment From hscer
I just started listening to Eno solo work. I liked the heavenly music corp (didn’t listen to side 2); warm jets album was okay. haven’t done the next one yet. overall, he was probably better producing Heads albums, but I understand the impact

Eno Sarris: Warm Jets was only okay?? Dang. Have you listened to Taking Tiger Mountain yet? That’s his best solo work.

Eno Sarris:

Comment From John Olerud
Given AA’s departure, it seems timely to ask this question. Please excuse the setup, but as a Canadian from Vancouver my fandom lies with the M’s, but I’m certainly no stranger to Blue Jays’ news and their fans. Accordingly, I had a friendly debate with my buddy (who is a Jays fan), arguing that the trade that sent Syndegaard and D’Arnaud to the Mets for Dickey (and other nominal assets) was, at the time, very similar to the trade that sent Bedard to the M’s for Adam Jones and Chris Tillman (among others). Of course, Dickey has managed to avoid major injury (unlike Bedard with the M’s), but how would you rank both these trades by comparison? Was Bavasi’s trade really all the much worse than AA’s, given the context and value of the prospects at the time these trades were made? Or should I say, rather, was AA’s move any better (since I believe they were both pretty bad)?

Eno Sarris: Yeah it’s not a terrible parallel, though Dickey has been better than Bedard. TdA is no Jones, but with framing value…

Comment From LGM
So degrom/harvey/syndergaard are aces, no? What can i consider Matz and Wheeler? 2s? 3s?

Eno Sarris: I think so. Matz scares me just a little, like he could be an Andrew Cashner from the left side. But still, Cashner from the left side is a 3/4 at the very least. And we still thinking about his upside. Wheeler command is an issue.

Comment From Splits
It’s hard to measure a catcher’s overall impact. Perhaps it would be most fair to say that the pitcher and the catcher are a team. If we factor in FIP, pitch calling, framing, and stolen base prevention, what percentage shares would you give to the pitcher and catchers? If the catchers deserve even 10% of the credit, then it’s potentially a few wins above replacement per season.

Eno Sarris: Harry Pavlidis has done great work in this way, correcting for certain base states, parks, pitcher catcher tandems, umpires, and all that in the most recent framing and game calling stats. He’s great. *fawns*

Comment From AsForn
Syndergaard for Russell (ss) who says no?

Eno Sarris: I said Cubs say no last week and someone made a compelling argument that Noah is a legendary ace. And yet, Mark Prior was on his list of comps, and Prior is a warning tale. Syndergaard has already had a few bouts of forearm soreness.

Comment From Pros
Matz or Severino? Bird or Conforto?

Eno Sarris: Severino (better secondary stuff). Conforto (better plate approach, more defensive value even with the occasional miscues).

Comment From Miggy Azalea
Would you worry about keeping DeGrom for 2016 given his workload and the relapse rate for TJ?

Eno Sarris: There’s a bit of a honeymoon period for TJ, about 400 innings, and then there’s a crop of people having second ones between 400-600 innings. deGrom is already 600 innings past his first one, I think he might be okay.

Comment From Aunt Jessie
So have you ever spoken to Hosmer/Moose/any of the other players involved since the incident? Did they remember it?

Eno Sarris: Talked to Hosmer during the World Series last year, in a pack of reports, no spark of memory.

Comment From Postseason
Going to brew my first russian imperial this weekend, was going to do an old rasputin clone. Any suggestions?

Eno Sarris: Love that beer, great place to start, before trying to add some small adjuncts to mess with flavor.

Comment From Nadia
What kind of a contract do you think Rich Hill will get? Starter, reliever?

Eno Sarris: Something that allows for him to end up relieving, so something small like 2/10.

Comment From mpg
what do you think carson is doing right this exact second?

Eno Sarris: Listening to the blues in his underwear.

Comment From GSon
Eno.. after watching the Cubs trying to hide Kyle Schwarber in the OF..it’s clear, as a defensive player.. he’s allergic to leather.. Doe Jed/Theo see what everyone else sees.. and makes Schwarber the BIG BAT everyone is looking for in the AL? Who has what the cubs want for the big guy?

Eno Sarris: They would want a young ace on the level of a Sonny Gray, I would think. But would they actually do that trade, after having the opportunity to do things like that in the past and passing on it? They seem like they want to keep all their bats and cobble the staff together.

Comment From Miketron
So its almost Halloween, we need the guy who turns into a werewolf, the guy who turns into Lucas Duda, some themed music, maybe Monster Mash?

Comment From Postseason
They’re aces? HAHAHAHA!

Comment From Pirates Hurdles
Wife wasn’t a big Silversun fan going in, but she really enjoyed them live, hopefully you will have similar luck.

Comment From A cat

Eno Sarris: I didn’t think we were getting weird enough until that last one, honestly.

Comment From Bork
The more that comes out in the AA/Shapiro situation, the more it’s looking like a family member of the Rogers family (owners of the company that owns the Jays) is taking a personal interest in the Jays. Is there any other owners that way overstep their bounds in the MLB?

Eno Sarris: Yes. Plenty of Jerry Joneses. I think the Wilpons are like this. I think Arte Moreno is like this. But all GMs want to be hired by owners, so this is the last thing we’ll hear about.

Comment From Aunt Jessie
Seems to me like you could do pitch tipping analysis with maybe 2 people/employees. Programmer to make a good sorting/frame grabbing app of vids based on pitch, and then have two people to watch everything… Of course, as anaheim tells us, getting that info to the field could be a bigger issue. But pitch tipping should be easy enough to identify given 2-3 people of resources and 6 months to a year. (I’m a computer programmer in a past life.)

Eno Sarris: That sort of budget carve out in the front office is hard to come by. Everyone does a couple things, and I’ve heard “we want to keep the money on the field” very often.

Comment From Julio Pepper
So Moustakas has 9 career WAR, and Hosmer has 6. I would not have guessed that without looking.

Eno Sarris: There’s no consensus when it comes to Hosmer’s first base defense.

Comment From Miggy Azalea
whoa whoa what is “the incident”? Do tell…

Eno Sarris: http://www.hardballtimes.co…

Comment From Big Joe Mufferaw
In your opinion, are the changes in Cueto’s delivery helping him, or harming him (with his command and movement)?

Eno Sarris: It certainly made Duda uncomfortable, even if the dude had a couple hits. You could see he was getting that foot down really quickly to deal with it. It has value, the shimmy. But his release point was dropping, and his stuff was getting flat, and I have to think that all those moving parts made it hard to get his life back together. Which, it does look like he did.

Comment From Drew
Knowing what pitch is coming helps a little, but if the pitch is executed well it’s still tough to hit. DeGrom slider low and away is tought to hit even when you know it’s coming.

Eno Sarris: Brandon Moss had a great line in his interview with me this year. “You don’t have to swing just because you know what’s coming.” I’ve talked to players that wouldn’t want to know what was coming.

Comment From WaiyooLyin
Holy hell! CNN just reported that Tupac has been found alive in Cuba!

Eno Sarris: This is pretty funny because the list of places he was found includes Jamaica, jail in LA, and … Tasmania. https://us.search.yahoo.com…

Comment From Eddie Brock
How do you feel about tablets being allowed in the dugout now?

Eno Sarris: Welcome to this century! I guess you could be watching a feed and stealing signs, but it’s pretty easy to disable wifi and all that.

Comment From Prince Wednesday
Do you find players interview with you differently than other press, specifically the classic beat writer type? I would think that as a player, it would be super refreshing to talk with someone bringing some real statistics & analysis to the table, rather than the same predictable, canned questions that most come with. Do guys ever get excited to engage in that type of conversation? Do some duck you to avoid having to think before they respond?

Eno Sarris: Yes I’m starting to get both. Some guys seek me out even, now. Most of the time, there’s a moment three questions in where the tone changes one way or the other.

Comment From GSon
duda was uncomfortable all the dooo dahhh day !!!

Comment From Miketron
Do you think Ryan Madsen will be closing somewhere next year?

Eno Sarris: Madson will probably get a deal with a team trying to get a closer cheap or something, or something like the Houston idea where they bought a bunch of guys on three year deals to make the bullpen better slower.

Comment From LarryA
During Game one, was Dontrelle & Co. just standing at that table afor 4 hours ready to be thrown to?

Eno Sarris: I got that impression! He had a bit of a scary look to him.

Comment From Eddie Brock
I really wanted that news about Tupac to be true.

Eno Sarris: Me too.

Comment From Lisa
With Kang’s success this year, do you think teams will take a chance on either Park or Thames form the KBO?

Eno Sarris: Thames’ boat has sailed. Park might get a chance.

Comment From Bork
When the 3rd question involves asking of a phone number and an invite to a massage parlor anyone’s tone would change, Eno.

Comment From Marcus Banks
Francesa should be fun today.

Comment From Aunt Jessie
Eno/Fuld interview: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Eno Sarris: yeah Fuld is my home boy.

Comment From Lisa
Would Cashner for Profar make sense?

Eno Sarris: Cash is on the block for sure. Given the fact that Preller came from that front office and probably had a lot to do with signing Profar, this does make a lot of sense.

Comment From Tim
Hi Eno, Do you think that multiple good defenders playing next to each other are greater than the sum of their parts? Is there a study out there I can read on this? Might this account for the Royals outplaying projections so much? Thanks.

Eno Sarris: Huh. It could also be like defensive rebounds in basketball, though, where good defenders just steal plays that would have been made from each other. I have not seen this sussed out.

Comment From CTMike
Kapler next Dodgers manager? Martinez maybe?

Eno Sarris: Most people acting like it’s Kapler as a done deal.

Comment From Bobby Blownilla
Would you rather Duda be trying to hit bullets into the shift and potentially over the fence or slapping the ball to the left side?

Eno Sarris: I defer to Dave Hudgens, the hitting coach that got the most out of Duda, when he says his best approach is up the middle. Duda isn’t going to get a lot of infield hits on balls slapped to the left side, even if if that did just happen. I mean, if Moose doesn’t barrel roll, he still has Duda dead to rights.

Comment From Jason Larue
great to see cueto is still alive and kicking

Eno Sarris: Just going to leave that there, because that was an atrocious moment if you ask me.

Eno Sarris:

Comment From Dr Johnny Fever
Can the phillies just buy ryan howard out at this point?

Eno Sarris: $35 million left on the contract. Depends on if you want to see what Ruf has or if you think you can trade Howard in-season for anything to an AL team needing a DH and swallow less money later.

Comment From Dad
Padres hire Andy Green, Nats hire Bud Black, Marlins hire Mattingly. a looooooot of white guys.

Eno Sarris: And what portion of the game is Latino anyway.

Comment From A cat
How much do the Sox need to eat to move Hanley?

Eno Sarris: They going to try him at first… first.

Comment From A cat
Do some outfields give a UZR advantage due to a combination of size and wind factors? It seems everyone who plays RF in Fenway or LF at AT&T grades out well.

Eno Sarris: Pretty sure MGL tries his best to correct for that, but yeah, there are some weird spots to play. Fenway is the wall, if you can play that bounce well, you can look real good.

Comment From Bobby Blownilla
On you Jungmann comment. Isn’t this the kind of guy to aim for in deep keepers? Young, already has an elite pitch, potential to develop another, and could come cheaply.

Eno Sarris: Sure, he’s around the 70-90 ranking where there’s a ton of gold. I love shopping there because it’s so cheap. But in terms of keepers, that means you’ll want to be keeping that many pitchers in your league, probably.

Comment From Bork
Hypothetically, if Tulo is traded by the Jays since apparently Goin’s is just way better, they won’t be getting the type of return they traded for him, right?

Eno Sarris: Not sure I agree with any of this statement!

Comment From Eddie Brock
About good d players playing next to each other. So in the Arenado/Tulo combo did Tulo’s numbers benefit from Arenado making all the plays on his glove side? Since the play was made it didn’t look bad for Tulo?

Eno Sarris: The play was made but he didn’t make it, so I think it’s still a “didn’t get.”

Comment From Joe
Familia’s closer rank next year?

Eno Sarris: I’m always surprised he doesn’t get more whiffs. He’s actually only about average for closers when it comes to strikeouts. I’d make him a top-seven guy based on the fact he has the role, but top-three or five closers will all have 12-13+ K/9s I think.

Comment From Joe
Correa a good turn pick at 11/14 in a 12-teamer?

Eno Sarris:

Comment From Julie with…
Reading through the transcript. You think Taking Tiger Mountain is your namesake’s best solo work? Give me “Before and After Science” any day of the week! Side A is just incredible. What’s your rationale for preferring TTM(bS)?

Eno Sarris: Actually… you’re right. https://www.youtube.com/wat… They 1 and 1A for me anyway.

Comment From Joe
I just saw Correa question, did you post response or just laugh cause it was so crazy?

Eno Sarris: Having a computer issue, all good now I think. I said. … “yes.”

Comment From Will
I think the Astros could platoon Tucker/Gonzalez/Marisnick in left field until younger Tucker/Daz Cameron are ready to come up. Do you think they would get about as much production from those three as we would from re-signing Rasmus?

Eno Sarris: Yeah I think resources probably best spent on starting pitching.

Comment From Merv Throneberry
Guyer as a last OF in a deep league? he’s a 15/15 guy if they let him hit against RHP…

Eno Sarris: You know, his 88 wRC+ against righties is better than I thought (.247 .311 .342), he plays decent D, and it looks like he’s the fourth outfielder next year.. Still that’s not really the recipe for success most of the time. He’s also 29.

Comment From Joe
What do you think about Velasquez and McCuller’s futures? Seems like the Astros need more gas in the pen which could come from outside/drafted players or even those two. McCullers seems a lock to stay in rotation, but Velasquez?

Eno Sarris: I think it would be a shame to put Velasquez in the pen. He’s actually a good answer for the pitching mix sleeper. He has above-average whiff rates on three pitches and the movement and velocity on the change is good. I’d ask him to trust the change, and if he’s throwing it regularly in spring, he’s a great pickup. Velocity and rise on the fastball, good curve that he loves and is fast as heck, decent slider, decent change. Put him in the rotation. Buy Madson.

Comment From Hoff
I invested heavily on your wait on pitching method as well as guys you touted heavily, while my offense was tops in every category, my pitching suffered in the cellar. Are you changing your approach for 2016?

Eno Sarris: I had a little problem with some pitching staffs, yes. Seems like the pitch type analysis is really good at finding guys that can be good, but it doesn’t turn out Carrasco types on the regular. At least it didn’t this year. I might bump up my first pitcher a little. I still don’t want a first or second round pitchers, but I might open up third and fourth rounds, and I’m not going to go 80% on hitting again.

Comment From Gary
What?? I would like to bet $500 that Correa finishes outside the top 30 on whatever player rater you’d like. 11/14 sounds crazy.

Eno Sarris: I think he’s the best shortstop in the game right now.

Comment From Natitude Adjuster
Eno, can we talk about Anthony Rizzo’s pre-pitch gyrations?

Eno Sarris: Just getting loose.

Comment From a eskpert
Do you get cheap(er) tickets for being an important baseball person?

Eno Sarris: No. Almost never.

Comment From Joe
Is Appel a dud?

Eno Sarris: Looks like it. The change was never that good. Maybe he’s a good reliever for them. Still has a chance.

Comment From Jack Glasscocks Cup
So, Eno. You talk to pitchers about grips and hitters about approach. Any interest in talking to fielders about process/focus/preparation?

Eno Sarris: I’ve got a post on Keirmaier about that a bit, and have done some stuff — check my piece with Addison Russell, and the outfielder-platoon thing from Fuld — but it’s harder. I’ll put that on my list.

Comment From The Oriole Bird
Eno, my buddies’ brewery in DC will soon get 100% of power from solar. Cool. http://www.washingtonian.co… This a blip or a trend? (Probably west coast hippies already do this.)

Eno Sarris: That is cool. We also need to be better about water. Tons of water in brewing.

Comment From Natitude Adjuster
Over/under Ryan Zimmerman rest-of-career WAR: 10.0? (Also, I just added “Natitude” to my Google Chrome dictionary. How is that not standard??)

Eno Sarris: Under.

Comment From Ryan
Does their playoff run make the Mets starters overvalued next year in fantasy? Or still profit potential there in the guys people still don’t “trust”?

Eno Sarris: There doesn’t seem like there’s going to be a lot of surplus value, there, no, unless Matz slips by.

Comment From Jack
For H2H fantasy, don’t you need to invest earlier in top SP? At least 2 depending on the # of guys you start in a given week. The rest can be late round SP, or even streaming 2-start guys.

Eno Sarris: I was in an H2H K/9 league and absolutely bought starters earlier to try and get three 1-2 types. Won that league.

Comment From Jack
Put your GM hat on…fix the Yankees in 3 moves (if possible)

Eno Sarris: Trade Gary Sanchez for a young stud SP if possible.
Give Ackley a full year at second.
Sign a better extra middle infielder.

Seriously, another starter and a full year of Severino, and I think you could be looking at this team very differently.

Comment From Big Joe Mufferaw
Best Cold weather beer is ____________

Eno Sarris: Black Butte is pretty good. Warms you right up.

Comment From Joe
Best Oktoberfest and/or Pumpkin Ale?

Eno Sarris: Hate Pumpkin, loved the Sierra Oktoberfest.

Comment From Christian
If you could interview a baseball player about craft beer who would you pick? Is Bartolo Colon too easy of an answer?

Eno Sarris: Did talk to Corey Knebel about it. He said it’s not super easy to stay on top of in his lifestyle. Can’t homebrew if you are always on the road, and the hotels don’t always have good beer bars.

Comment From Art Vandelay
I’m pretty sure Sierra Nevada’s Chico brewery is at least partially solar-powered. As for water, the new Lagunitas brewery in Azusa is supposed to be the most water-conservative brewery ever constructed. How? I don’t know.

Comment From Big Joe Mufferaw
Why is Harold Reynolds allowed on TV? To speak no less?

Comment From Marcus Banks
White Russian beats any beer for a cold-weather drink.

Eno Sarris: We’ve had better lude days.

Comment From Ringtone Composer
Just started seeing AleSmith IPA in DC area recently. Had it. Loved it. Is all there stuff this good?

Eno Sarris: yes, try their Speedway Stout, and then X as a session PA style. They are a v good brewery.

Comment From Will
Im trying to imagine a scenario where Chris Davis’s contract isnt a disaster 5 years from now, and I really cant.

Eno Sarris: Yeah that one makes me nervous. Doesn’t have a great natural eye, and depends on pitchers being afraid of his power to walk. Was almost out of baseball a couple times. I get a little bit of a Hamilton vibe.

Comment From Joe
Other than keeper trades, if you were to do anything now until the start of spring training to improve your chances of winning fantasy baseball in 2016, what would it be?

Eno Sarris: Study the depth charts? Make your own player by player projections?

Comment From joshuahack
Does a Brian Dozier for Gary Sanchez trade work for both teams? Or would the Twins have to throw in a prospect.

Eno Sarris: I think those two orgs have a chance to match up, but it really looks like the Yankees are looking to cobble together second base.

Comment From Francisco Lindor
How much more WAR than Correa do I need for people to realize I’m the best SS in baseball?

Eno Sarris: Well a lot of that WAR is based on single-season defensive value, and I’ll take Correa’s bat over Lindor’s every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I feel like Lindor debuted closer to his peak when it comes to the bat.

Comment From Ryan
Saw a fair amount of rage-inducing discussion of the SN Managers of the Year. On Collins: “The young rotation was so good”, “The bullpen got way better”, etc… these really strike me as GM moves. What’s the real case for Collins? Beating W-L expectations? Clever in-game moves?

Eno Sarris: I don’t love Collins. Even beating projections has a ton to do with players. You could look at leverage and if he used the best relievers in the best situations. You could look at the clubhouse energy (which was terrible for much of the year). You could look at his quotes in the media and player responses (also not great). I hate talking about Manager of the year because it’s impossible.

Comment From joshuahack
What can the Twins do to improve that pitching staff? Put Nolasco in long relief and May and Berrios as starters?

Eno Sarris: Sign someone, give Berrios the chance. I like May, could give him another chance too.

Comment From Big Joe Mufferaw
Why had Thames’s boat sailed? He hit like Barry Bonds last year (40-40 season) and has always had bat speed and skill

Eno Sarris: More of a known quantity. 2k plate appearances here with a 104 wRC+ at DH-level defense makes him a liability not an asset.

Eno Sarris: I’m pooped. Kids kept me up last night. Must write something. See you guys next week, when… oh man… it’ll be all over

Eno Sarris: thanks for hanging out!