JotCast | 2018 World Series Game One Live Chat

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Sadman

8:47

“My crew is all about the AL”. What sort of weird family roots for entire league

Jeff Sullivan

8:48

Matt Kemp! First half Dodgers MVP!

Jay Jaffe

8:48

If you had Matt Kemp hitting the first home run of the 2018 World Series, come claim your prize

Jeff Sullivan

8:48

Leon wanted a fastball inside. Sale threw a fastball...over the outer third. That's a big narp

Dystopian Future

8:48

I think there's a high probability we see another freeze-out. It was never the Machados/Harpers of the world that were getting frozen out, it was the midlevel 30somethings. And there's the possibility that with a higher supply at the top, the midlevel guys will have it worse.

AdamZ

8:48

Joe Buck: something something launch angle. John Smoltz: has aneurysm.

Matt

8:49

I forgot sneaks on my work trip. My options are: Gym shorts, white tee and dress shoes, or put all my clothes back on. I need more wine. What's the call here?

Dan Szymborski

8:49

The first. You wanna work out, but you also want to be a littel fancy.

Jeff Sullivan

8:50

Of minor note: Leon is giving Sale the regular, basic pitch signs. Not the complicated, paranoid pitch signs

Hyperbolisyllabicsesquidalimysti

8:50

Am I overly concerned by the fact that Sale is already at 35 pitches?

Jart

8:50

Matt Kump!

MCM

8:50

Matt, own the shorts and dress shoes look. All about confidence

Jay Jaffe

8:50

Honestly, I'd be surprised if the plan has Sale going much more than 5 innings anyway. Cora has a full bullpen including Porcello and Eovaldi

ryan

8:51

what is my prize?

Jay Jaffe

8:51

Free admission to a FanGraphs chat of your choice

Stephen

8:51

To fix the freeze out of the mid level guys, will the Players Association basically need to force a strike as to get more of the young guys paid earlier so it doesn't seem like an overpay after a rookie contract is up at age "30"?

Dan Szymborski

8:52

I don't think the MLBPA has the unity to strike on the issue.

Jeff Sullivan

8:52

They negotiated for all the wrong things last time around

Terrible priorities!

The free-agent market is never again going to be what it was

Dan Szymborski

8:52

The majority of players weren't even alive when Miller left the director position.

Stringer Bell

8:54

I feel like people are overreacting to last year's free agency

Dan Szymborski

8:54

The thing is, it's not like breaking two glasses in the kitchen. A mindset isn't a random fluke.

B. Ryce Hammer's Luscious Locks

8:54

I just gotta say that "Matt Kemp, World Series MVP" would be the most baseball headline of all baseball history

Dred Scott

8:54

should Kershaw have even started this game? Threw 15 pitches on Saturday.

Jeff Sullivan

8:55

Last year it came as a surprise, but it's going to stay like that. Teams just aren't going to throw money away anymore

Jay Jaffe

8:55

15 pitches — relatively efficient ones — 3 days ago? It was his throw day. There's no way the Dodgers would have done that if they had concerns about his availability or preparation for Game 1. Atributing his first-inning struggles to that when his defense let him down (at least in part - yes, those 3 100+ mph scorchers happened) is a reach

Facu

8:55

I live in Panama so I didn’t understand why you all hate Smoltz. Now I’m at a hotel watching the US transmission and I get it.

Dan Szymborski

8:55

The people that laughed about the Dodgers giving five years to Juan Pierre are buy and large the type of people who are making front office decisions now.

8:57

Guy in commercial was HIRED not FIRED!!!111 WHATATWIST

Ian Desmond

8:57

Dan, I demand that you tell me that I am a good base

Dan Szymborski

8:57

You might make a good base.

Mike

8:58

Sale at 50 pitches in 2 innings

Jeff Sullivan

8:58

51 pitches, but at least he's got seven whiffs

Sad Mariners Fan

8:58

How will using starters out of the bullpen affect their availability?

Jay Jaffe

8:58

If it's done right, it shouldn't. The idea is that you get them to throw an inning on their throw day and they'll have recovered in time for their start. So far we've seen it work pretty well this fall. Eovaldi, Porcello, Sale... I guess somebody is going to attribute Kershaw's problems here to that, but as I said, I think that's a reach.

Jeremy

8:58

What is something reasonable the players union could "give up" in exchange for, say, granting guaranteed free agency at age 27?

Jeff Sullivan

8:59

Barnes really trying to frame the snot out of those fastballs down

Dan Szymborski

8:59

"MLBPA gets major concession from owners and are now allowed unlimited hot sauce in the dugout. MLBPA gives owners extra year until free agency."

9:02

At least the MLBPA recently hired a lawyer. Progress!

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