JotCast | 2019 World Series Game 3 Chat

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BennyandtheMets

8:16

Hey Fangraphs staff, thanks as always for doing these chats! They make the Fall Classic that much more enjoyable!

Hire Joe Morgan?

8:16

You stole my thoughts, Dan! Get out of my brain!

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8:16

Robles a professional outfielder

Dave

8:16

Would a Robles-for-Betts trade be of interest to either team?

Dan Szymborski

8:16

Did that Game One inside joke persist into Game Two chat?

I was sick and mostly on cough medicine for most of Game Two.

David Laurila

8:17

I know that Betts' contract is a concern, but as of right now the difference in proven talent is chasm city.

Dan Szymborski

8:17

I don't think Betts is traded unless the Red Sox are bowled over.

sucramrenrut

8:17

Can we agree that the biggest part of OF defense is just speed? Have to think top end speed can beat a great break a la Kiermeier.

Dan Szymborski

8:18

Here's the longest homer of 2019.

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=03c32ee5-9c9a-432d...

It's not JUST speed, but speed is important.

David Laurila

8:18

No, no, an emphatic NO on speed being the biggest part of OF defense.

Dan Szymborski

8:18

ZiPS finds speed score an additional useful variable in addition to actual OF range performance when projecting future. It's not the biggest, but it's important.

8:19

And it's useful when we don't have good defensive data.

Like players switching positions.

Or minor league. No matter how clever I attempt to be reverse-engineering faux zone rating, defensive stats just aren't that good and speed score becomes an even more useful variable.

Da Bear

8:20

Which will end up higher tonight: Sanchez's pitch count, or his count of throws over to 1st?

Hire Joe Morgan?

8:20

I second Benny. Really enjoy these chats in-game.

I think Brantley has ascended into the 'pretty left-handed swing' pantheon.

Dan Szymborski

8:20

Well, remember, he's the Great American Baseball Show

8:21

For those who weren't here for Game One, I had the Talk to Transformer neural network generate player nicknames for the World Series rosters.

David Laurila

8:21

Speaking of OF defense, a year or two ago I opined that Jackie Bradley Jr. is the best CF in MLB, and Rocco Baldelli refuted my claim. Relied on the Rays' internal metrics, and you know what? The Rays are good at that stuff.

Bring Back Jeff

8:21

Thoughts on Chaim Bloom hire? As a Sox fan, I’m pretty psyched...

Dan Szymborski

8:21

I like the hire, though it means BP beat us to first GM!

Fire Ken Tremendous

8:22

Remember when we thought Robles had never played in the outfield in Game One?

peakfreak

8:22

Hiw does a guy lay off that other stuff and then swing at an even worse pitch?

Hire Joe Morgan?

8:22

Guys like Edmonds and Jones weren't exactly slow, but neither was ever all that fast, either.

Dan Szymborski

8:22

And Alex Sanchez stunk.

Fire Ken Tremendous

8:23

I heard the only way to get into and out of Chasm City is by rickety rope bridges as seen in Temple of Doom

Jordan

8:23

So what is the biggest part? I figured it was speed

David Laurila

8:23

Saw a tweet a few hours ago saying that former Nationals Jonny Gomes, Adam LaRoche, and Steven Souza Jr are at the game tonight. How much success did the three have in the postseason? Souza never played in October. LaRoche had 12 hits in 60 at bats and his teams lost all four postseason series. Gomes went 7 for 49 and his teams split six series. Gomes does have a World Series ring.

Eel Ffilc

8:23

About speed on defense:

Dan Szymborski

8:23

Reaction, judgment

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

8:24

The thing about the Chaim Bloom hire is I didn't care since I thought LA already poached him.
Whoops.

David Laurila

8:25

Bloom wrote six or eight articles for Baseball Prospectus about 15-18 years ago, I believe.

That was before I was at BP.

Dan Szymborski

8:25

Speed doesn't matter if you don't know where the ball is going!

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