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Dan Szymborski

2:14

Cassiopeia bullied the kittens off my office windowsill after the kittens were done fighting on top of the high bookshelf. Now she's asleep on my left desk and I hear chaos upstairs that I'm not checking unless a smoke detector goes off.

stever20

2:14

Kershaw is one of the funnier pitchers in the playoffs. He's had 10 starts where he's given up 4 runs or more. But then at the same time 9 where he gave up 0 or 1 run. Only 5 with either 2 or 3 runs....

Ryan G

2:14

This strikezone already seems problematic. Is there any evidence to support a change in the strikezone in October?

Dan Szymborski

2:14

I've personally never looked at that issue. Ben or Jay?

Jesse

2:14

Is the chat going to take a break between the two AL games or just go straight through?

Jay Jaffe

2:14

so much of Kershaw's line has to do with the hope that he can get out of a jam when he's tiring, which, after having 200 innings piled on his plate and 100+ pitches, has often not been the case

Dan Szymborski

2:14

We're just motoring through, I believe. I'm here for this game and then I have writing to do

5 Run Homer

2:15

Jay has a dog too! Jay, dog update

Ben Clemens

2:15

Never looked at it. I'm skeptical, though. Strike zones are bad all year, it just feels worse in the playoffs.

Dan Szymborski

2:15

Weird, neither leadoff hitter hit a homer. Is this 2019?

Jay Jaffe

2:15

Sandy, a mutt, is doing quite well except for his confusion during the threenager's tantrums

Sabo

2:15

tyler glasnow, aka why ray searage was fired

Dan Szymborski

2:16

I think Searage's "pound the strike zone low with fastballs" strategy
got largely usurped by modern hitting theory

Jay Jaffe

2:16

I've never studied the strike zone issue. It'd be a good question to ask somebody who studies that stuff large-scale, like Jon Roegele

Guest

2:16

Jay, is Chapman the new front runner reliever for HOF? Highest active fWAR @ 19.3 and 13th all time (which I believe incorporates WPA #s for relievers) with fewer innings than Jansen and Kimbrel. His K/9 is the highest and FIP the lowest of all pitchers min 500 IP. and FWIW his save numbers are respectible. Not to mention the other two look more and more in decline. Sorry you haven't had a chat in a while!

Ben Clemens

2:17

Searage reminds me of Seth Rogen in Knocked Up. He just has the one move... he has to keep going with it.

It worked quite well for a while, and then when it didn't, well....

2:18

"MLB considers them the eighth-best team in defensive efficiency." That's certainly one way to say that.

Daniel

2:18

Sort of weird that the broadcast keeps pronouncing it "Lowe" as opposed to "Lowe"

Dan Szymborski

2:18

It's Lowe's fault for pronouncing his last name different than everybody in the history of the world with that last name.

Jay Jaffe

2:18

Re Chapman: Good question. I haven't looked closely at it but he figures to be the next guy in the pecking order. Straight JAWS-wise (which isn't ideal) he's 80th, a long ways off.

It's a bummer to see Kimbrel and Jansen declining before our eyes, but it should deepen the appreciation for guys like Rivera, Hoffman and Wagner — it's damn hard to stay good at that job for so long.

Derek

2:18

Glasnow just threw that ball like, 40 feet

Ben Clemens

2:19

Savant will imply a height when the pitch crosses the plate, and I'm very curious to see where that one comes in.

Dan Szymborski

2:19

It'd be like Ben demanding we all call him CLEE-muns.

Ben Clemens

2:19

Yeah, and?

2:20

My name is easy to pronounce but people never spell it correctly. Not as bad as Dan I'm sure, but you'd be shocked how rare it is that someone gets it right.

stever20

2:20

so last night.... the Dodgers/Nats game. Soto up and Kolarek comes up for 1 batter... Next year, he has to pitch to 3 batters. How is MLB going to prevent Kolarek from feigning injury after his first batter?

Ben Clemens

2:20

I'll have to verify this but I believe he'd have to go on the IL.

So, Game 7 sure, but otherwise that would be costly.

Jay Jaffe

2:20

at the very least, he could be forced to be inactive for X games if it's not an IL-worthy injury

Derek

2:21

How else do people spell "Clemens"?

Dan Szymborski

2:21

Clemons?

Ben Clemens

2:21

Clemons, Clemmons, Clements

Dan Szymborski

2:21

I would think baseball people would get it right

Jay Jaffe

2:21

or you could do something like award two bases per batter needed to get to 3 batters?

ViewerfromHolland

2:21

Over/under yandy Diaz with 3 Hrs today?

Dan Szymborski

2:21

O/U is like 2.6!

Ben Clemens

2:21

Yeah if I say 'like Roger' baseball people always get it.

Dan Szymborski

2:21

"Oh, Roger Clements!" and then you cry yourself to sleep.

Jay Jaffe

2:22

that reminds me of the Louis Cefarino tweet

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