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anotherYX
10:58
If I must have a robo voice answer all my stupid questions I'd rather it to be a woman's voice...
bananas
10:58
Why does every company assume i need to talk to my phone??  What's wrong with good old fashioned buttons?  Get off my lawn!
Craig Edwards
10:58
I remember thinking it was stupid for phones to have cameras. Good times. Good times.
Lou Trivino's Fighting Baseball
11:00
Mitch Moreland is pointless
Craig Edwards
11:00
We call them runs. Mitch Moreland is runless.
Blake the Rake
11:01
Why is Steve Pearce so wildly underappreciated?
Super Benintendo
11:01
But it's former Gold Glove winner Mitch Moreland....
Craig Edwards
11:01
he's on the wrong side of a platoon. He plays a valuable role, but it is a bit of a luxury one.
11:03
Kelly to Eovaldi is interesting.
anotherYX
11:04
Is Evoldi's arm going to fall off after this series ala Keith Foulke?
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:04
It's already fallen off!
Kirk
11:05
Is there any sort of stat that measures how often the top/middle of the order appears in high leverage situations versus the bottom?
Craig Edwards
11:05
You can do this on the splits leaderboards. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/splits-leaderboards?splitArr=19,72&s...
11:06
leadoff at 1791 PA, cleanup at 2009, 7th, 2066,
Blake the Rake
11:07
Pearce has a 102 wRC+ vs RHP, and The Book style regression bumps that up more. From what data we have, he's a legit starting 1B.
Craig Edwards
11:07
It shouldn't be that hard to find a lefty to take 400 PA from first base with something much better than that, though.
Nick Mar - Cake is Good
11:08
Eovaldi seems impossible to hit, like most major league pitchers
Obvious Alias
11:09
Is Eovaldi a top candidate for comeback player of the year?
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:09
He's better than when he left!
Scout1
11:09
Curious to fangraphs writers thoughts on this:  I was at an MLB game this year.  Radar gun on the board (and corresponding on the television) was the same.  A 95 mph FB on the stadium gun was registering at 92 mph on my Jugs gun.  The scout I was sitting with had an R-gun that was popular / standard issue with MLB teams in the early 90s, the same pitch 95 mph pitch was reading 89/90 consistently.  The scout made the suggestion that guys pretty much throw just as hard as they used to (there are just more guys who throw hard now, but not actually harder than they used to, if that makes sense).
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:09
I don't know enough about the guns, honestly.
Ohtani 2600
11:09
Padres fans should not look up the career wRC+ for Pearce and Hosmer.
AlGoneQuinn
11:10
Bad branding on YouTube tv. We expect YouTube is the place we go for free videos. $40/month doesn't compute.
Dude
11:10
Is velocity any harder to hit in cold weather?
AvatarDan Szymborski
Craig Edwards
11:10
compare it to cable or comparable streaming services
Nick
11:10
I think we could give soft tossers a confidence boost by telling them their speed in KM/hr. The next market inefficiency.
Nick Mar - Cake is GoodThat
11:11
Oh, so NOW you bring Báez in???
bosoxforlife
11:11
I would be very happy to see #25 on Steve Pearce's Red Sox uniform next season.
Super Benintendo
11:12
@Scout1 More or less the same point the Fastball documentary makes at some point regarding Nolan Ryan if I recall.
Nick Mar - Cake is GoodThat
11:12
Netflix and MLB dot TV are good enough
Craig Edwards
11:12
just depends on how much sports you need.
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:12
Budweiser is good at making commercials that make their beer sound WAY better than it is
Kirk
11:13
Cody is a pretty good outfielder hunh
Nick Mar - Cake is GoodThat
11:13
Guys, someone else is using the “Nick Mar - Cake is Good” tag and this worries the paranoid side of me
Adam
11:13
I like Geico ads more than the announcers
Josh R
11:13
My Lord, Cyborgs got Buck and Smoltz!
Super Benintendo
11:14
Is there a chance the batters are swinging at the first Baez pitch they see because they ... just ... don't ... want ... to ... wait.....
Craig Edwards
11:15
Dodgers have one more shot.
Mike
11:15
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