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Anonymous
3:51
Tyler Glasnow with 3TO Bingo on 10 pitches this inning
Cito's Mustache
3:51
Third time through the order was not kind to Glasnow today. Go figure.
Ben Clemens
3:52
Good job chat- I think we successfully first-guessed this one.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:53
Riffing on more Lowe stuff: In 1977 after David Bowie released his masterpiece album Low, Nick Lowe responded by releasing a 7" EP called Bowi.
3:54
and they all pronounced them the same, thankfully
Derek
3:54
McKay is first out of the bullpen???
Ben Clemens
3:54
Lefty matchup thing I believe.
I might have gone with Drake, but I'm okay with it.
Surprise
3:57
Why did Lindor seem to have an off year? Looking at that WAR list, he had fewer than Judge, who missed twice as much time and isn't a SS, etc
Ben Clemens
3:57
Drake's release point is actually more like your average lefty than McKay's, as weird as that sounds.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:57
well, Lindor hit for just a 114 wRC+, compared to 130 last year, and while he played above-average defense, Judge was a tough-to-believe 12.7 in UZR in 775 innings of RF
boo this man
3:58
More like Glas-later than he should've stayed in amirite
Ben Clemens
3:58
Username checks out.
Blue
4:00
I have a structured settlement and I need Glas-now!
Ben Clemens
4:00
Oh god.
You've ruined my brain for the rest of the day.
Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes
4:01
Nerdcast just spoils me. That broadcast would never comment about how McKay is a two-way player and then wonder out loud how many ABs he had, as if it's not your gosh darn job to know that. There's a curiosity and willingness to be informed by the advanced metrics that is sorely lacking in other broadcasts.
Ben Clemens
4:01
There's also a huge team of people backing these guys up. I have to believe that if they really wanted to know that they'd know it.
4:02
Although Girardi with a nice save, talking about Roe's slider.
4:03
It was a good use of Statcast data, so credit where credit is due.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:03
We essentially all got into sabermetrics because we had questions we wanted to answe.r
Ben Clemens
4:03
Hoo boy.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:04
So it's one of those things most of us share
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:04
woof. that's a real Lowe point
Ben Clemens
4:04
Nowe we're cooking with gas
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:04
Gotta find my Roe GIF
Ben Clemens
4:04
In all honesty though, that's 100% on Meadows.
Roland
4:05
Do players who appear in the regular season but get left off the post-season roster get a WS ring if their team wins it all?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:05
generally yes, though it varies from team to team who they decide to award rings to.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:05
"I was calling Lowe! Lowe! Lowe! But nobody was answering. That's what happens when you pick odd proununciation!"
Yeah, teams vote people rings.
Brandon
4:06
Do you think it's feasible to let a computer or analyst dictate all the managerial decisions? Might be hard to find a manager that's okay with that, but you could really play the matchups and might get an extra win or two a season for no cost from managerial inefficiencies.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:06
hell no.
so much more goes into managing than just what comes out of a computer
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:06
The Red Sox went all out their first modern WS and like everyone even tangentially related to the Red Sox got a ring. Except Voros.
(Actually, players vote shares, not rings)
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:06
and nobody is going to take that job where they're literally a subordinate to a machine
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:06
Ben Clemens
4:06
I do not think this would work as well as you think. I think that managing workload and injuries and things like that is undervalued.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:06
i'm still pissed of on Voros' behalf at that one
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