FanGraphs Chat – 5/23/12





Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.

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Casey
14 years ago

Who closes if Broxton is hurt or traded?

Will Lind ever be back up to the majors this year?

What to expect from Brian Roberts?

juan pierres mustache
14 years ago

haven’t been able to view any current or past chats recently…the video ad appears as a black box, never loads the ad, never lets me progress beyond that. anyone have any idea what causes this?

oldschoolways
14 years ago

I don’t know but I”m getting the same problem, just started today for me, was able to view yesterday’s Jack Moore chat fine.

oldschoolways
14 years ago

I don’t know but I”m getting the same problem, just started today for me, was able to view yesterday’s Jack Moore chat fine.

Dunn Dunn Dunn Dunn
14 years ago

Yeah, happening to me to. Now I have to work 🙁

oilcanboy
14 years ago

I have the same issue – if I reload the page a few times, the chat eventually loads.

momomoses7
14 years ago

I’m having the same problem, today’s the first time it’s happened to me

Chris
14 years ago

So how do we get rid of this black box?

Nohd
14 years ago

I have the same problem using Chrome, but it is working on Firefox.

JBV
14 years ago

Had to step out, so I didn’t see your question.
12:34Comment From TFINY
I can’t vote for some reason. If you care, Linear Weights now, Pythag at the end.
12:34Dave Cameron:
This is interesting to me. The difference between the two is basically situational performance, so hitting with men on/RISP and runner stranding on the pitching side. Any reason you think that stuff is “real” after six months but not after two?

It may be just noise, even after six months, but I know that some pitchers have better stuff out of the stretch, and I know that some hitters hit more poorly when a runner is stealing on them. I think that the underlying skills (mostly on the pitching side) about stranding runners is more likely to show itself when you have a whole season sample, as opposed to two months. As I am thinking through my answer, I have no reason to believe that six months is a large enough sample, or that two months is too small, but that was my reasoning. If anyone has heard of research being done on how large a sample it takes for pitching out of the stretch to stabilize, I would love to see it.

Franklin Stubbs
14 years ago

“Comment From Shea
Considering LaHair is already established at 1B”

What??? We’re a month and a half into the season. He’s almost 29… He’s hardly established.