JotCast | 2018 Opening Day Very Long Chat

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Jay Jaffe

6:14

Brett Gardner chipping in with a homer. Raising my estimate for the Yankees' scoring to 9000 runs and 1000 homers

6:17

Does the bullpen usage revolution mean the beginning of the end of the quality start?

Travis Sawchik

6:17

Probably and to the pleasure of many

Ohtani Kitean

6:18

Houston's bullpen doesn't get the cred it deserves given awesomeness of rest of team, but: Giles, Peacock, Harris, Devenski, McHugh, maybe Sipp and Rondon -- damn!!

Travis Sawchik

6:18

FG's No. 2 projected bullpen

It's very good

But Yankees' pen is on another level

Hans Gruber

6:19

Who will be more fantasy relevant this year, A-A ron Hicks or Jose Martinez? (assuming same PT)

Eric A Longenhagen

6:19

Martinez. It's real.4

Travis Sawchik

6:19

The new JD Martinez, Jose Martinez

I like Hicks, too, though

Ohtani Kitean

6:20

Rangers employing the rover vs. Gallo

tb.25

6:20

Anyone got clips of these throws Donaldson is making?

Jay Jaffe

6:20

the clips were taken behind the barn and put down.

Travis Sawchik

6:20

Positions are going to become less meaningful

Eric A Longenhagen

6:21

Austin Hedges steals a strike to end trouble for SD t8. Still a one-run game in SD

Ohtani Kitean

6:22

i wasn't on chat earlier if this was covered, but in case others haven't heard, RIP Rusty Staub, original Houston Colt 45 and Montreal Expo -- career .279/.362/.431

Jay Jaffe

6:23

I have a piece about Staub in the pipeline. Excellent ballplayer, Hall of Fame humanitarian.

An icon in both Montreal and New York City

6:23

If Jose Martinez mashes in April does he get 550 ABs this year?

Travis Sawchik

6:23

He needs to play

James

6:24

How much value would a player like Austin Hedges lose if robot umps were calling pitches in games?

Travis Sawchik

6:24

A significant amount if you buy the BP framing metrics

Dan

6:26

Eric, the Royals cut Kyle Zimmer. How good was he at his peak and what could have been?

Eric A Longenhagen

6:26

Saw him throw one inning in 2014 Fall League before he broke for whichever-teenth time that was. At best he was 94-98 with a 6 breaking ball and 5 changeup. Delivery was always violent and inconsistent, though.

Jacob

6:26

Disappointed to see no discussion of bombapalooza in KC

Jay Jaffe

6:27

Six homers today, five by the White Sox, two apiece by Anderson and Davidson. Both of these teams are pretty far down the list of who I'm likely to be paying attention to on a given day but yeah, that's a lot of bombs.

a bloo bloo jays

6:28

Just want to tell Carson, "I love you." Hopefully, this comment represents that message, and satisfies my wish. Goodbye.

Eric A Longenhagen

6:29

Reminder you can go see Carson at this thing: https://homestand.ca/event/pitch-talks-april-5th/

Jacob

6:29

Davidson 114 and 115 EV on his homers. That's....pretty hard hit

Austin

6:30

Can we expect to see Mackenzie Gore this year?

Eric A Longenhagen

6:30

That seems excessive.

Jay Jaffe

6:30

4 1/2 years ago he was the MVP of the Futures Game at Citi Field. Not sure what's happened since, developmentally, but that's a long time ago

Eric A Longenhagen

6:31

Better Hader?

Bill Hader (58% | 29 votes)

Josh Hader (42% | 21 votes)

Total Votes: 50

EccentricChemist

6:33

So besides Aaron Judge, is anyone capable of maintaining an everyday role and being a star with a K rate over 30%?

Eric A Longenhagen

6:33

Hosmer 6-4-3 ends the 8th, still 1-0 MIL

Travis Sawchik

6:33

Gallo

Hosmer!

I thought Hos and I had a meaningful talk about launch angle this spring

Anthony

6:34

Those Hosmer grounders man...

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