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Travis Sawchik
4:33
Best launch angle ever
OddBall Herrera
4:33
Manfred on pace: "Rather than a bullpen cart, we thought having the relief pitcher be chased in by a pack of wolves would speed things up"
Travis Sawchik
4:34
We're here to be entertained, right?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:34
Best Arizona State Baseball Player Name
Eli Lingos (3% | 3 votes)
 
Fitz Stadler (18% | 18 votes)
 
Adisyn Coffey (15% | 15 votes)
 
Chaz Montoya (27% | 27 votes)
 
Spencer Torkelson (37% | 37 votes)
 
Total Votes: 100
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:36
Didn't Fitz Stadler direct silent movies in the 1920s?
Guest
4:36
L Duda slam off of J Shields puts KC up 4-0 on my White Sox only four batters into the season.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:36
Who says the Royals needed to spend $144 million on a first baseman?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:38
Fitz Stadler + Alex Lange = Fitz Lang
Erik
4:38
How long before an expansion happens is it officially announced? There seems to have been a lot of rumors in the past year or two, often pushed by Manfred himself. Is that what typically happens, say, two years before an expansion, or more like 5-10?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:39
It's a multiyear process for sure. The two 1993 expansion teams (Florida and Colorado) were awarded in June 1991, but the roots of it went back to the 1985 CBA. The two 1998 ones (Tampa Bay and Arizona) were awarded in March 1995.
Travis Sawchik
4:40
Royals signed Duda for $141.5 million less than Eric Hosmer. Duda has 0.1 fWAR less than Hoser since start of 2014
Bork
4:41
Wouldn't it be hard to keep an expansion secret? Like city council meetings etc are public, and if the potential owner is getting public funds as well its easily public news
Eric A Longenhagen
4:41
Torkelson ran away with the poll. He tied Barry Bonds' freshman HR record last Friday. Who knows which of these accomplishments he feels strongest about?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:42
As with Olympic bids, the whole process, including the effort to get a stadium built and get an ownership group together to grease the right palms, is on the order of a decade
Travis Sawchik
4:42
Enlightening Round
4:43
Ohtani was messing with you guys for spring training, hahahaha
Josh
4:43
How do you think Dave C feels when he watches Hosmer making outs at ~$25k per PA?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:43
anybody who takes spring training stats seriously needs his or her head examined.
Travis Sawchik
4:44
Dave should have forwarded all 168 FG articles on launch angle from 2017 to Hosmer on his first day in SD
Mound
4:44
I see dropping the mound named as a solution to the current high K, high HR environment. Do you think it is being seriously considered or do you think it will be?
Travis Sawchik
4:44
Plausible
S
4:44
Does MLB.tv no longer have Fantasy Tracker? Seems like the platform has fewer features than ever
Eric A Longenhagen
4:45
I've been unenamored with it, too. Twitch update has been great, though.
Tucker
4:45
Tyler Flowers with our first early exit of the year :/
Travis Sawchik
4:45
oh no!
Ayye
4:45
I think it was Boog Sciambi who said in a NYY-BOS game last season there were 5 batted balls in play in the first 53 min of the game. That's not good aesthetically at all.
Travis Sawchik
4:45
That's a problem
James Shields
4:46
Is it finally over for him? 35 pitches, four runs, five hits in the first inning, generally looked terrible.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:46
It's been over since Bartolo homered off him. He's just the last one to get the memo. Sad, really.
Enlightening Round
4:47
Eric, when do the minor league games start?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:47
A week from today. MiLB spring training games are still going on here. Michael Kopech was 95-99 yesterday.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:48
Re: dropping the mound, I think the more plausible solution is to tighten up the bottom of the strike zone, which has grown in recent years (as Jon Roegele documented again earlier this week https://www.fangraphs.com/tht/the-2017-strike-zone/). It's probably less stressful on pitchers' arms than lowering the mound, and strike zone changes have a very long history as a means of tinkering with offensive levels
Mark
4:49
In re strike zone...ROBOT UMPS
Travis Sawchik
4:49
Some day
Mark
4:49
Do you guys have other sports you watch for fun? Or is it pretty much all baseball, all the time
Travis Sawchik
4:49
Manfred did address robot umps today ...
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:50
I immerse myself in the Winter Olympics every four years, as they're timed perfectly relative to the low point of the baseball calendar. I can't really stick with a sport for very long otherwise
Travis Sawchik
4:50
Noted part of what gives HP umpire authority to manage game is ball-strike calls ... not sure how much of a consideration that should be
Eric A Longenhagen
4:50
I'm mono baseball now.
4:51
Magic: The Gathering has replaced the NBA and NFL for me
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