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Jay Jaffe

3:01

foam novelty fingers, Ben

Dan Szymborski

3:01

Just the generalized stat that players hit worse when stewals are attempted in their at-bats and worse with more pickoff throws

stewals?

Ben Clemens

3:02

Yeah exactly Dan. It's interesting, though- in theory if batters really are taking pitches to help with steals, you'd want to take in the counts where takes are least punishing.

Dan Szymborski

3:03

One can argue that you should throw pickoff throws to first even if you have the slowest runner in history at first

Andrew

3:03

Goalkeeper gloves would be handy! They're huge and sticky-ish

Dystopian Future

3:03

Michael Brantley's first batted ball today had an xBA of .730. It was an out. His next batted ball had an xBA of .070, and it was a hit.

Dan Szymborski

3:03

Baseball gonna baseball

Ben Clemens

3:03

Here's a thing I didn't expect to say: AJ Pierzynski has made some good points today.

Dan Szymborski

3:04

He's probably kicking an intern during commercial breaks

Geust

3:04

Dan are you still doing elegies?

Dan Szymborski

3:04

Of course! Just none this week as I'm doing a lot for playoff openings. Since I'm off gamers and chats for several days after this initial blast, I'll be writing some more.

3:05

i remember Pierzynski went on intentional talk and was the only guy who looked like more of an asshole afterwards

Aaron

3:05

There's been a *lot* of borderline pitches from Glasnow that seemed to have no chance of being called strikes because of how much D'Arnaud was moving his glove to catch them. Glasnow's fault, D'Arnaud's, or both?

Ben Clemens

3:05

It's interesting to me that there's so much talk of being really careful with Bregman because he's the presumptive MVP. So much of his value comes from walks!

Dystopian Future

3:05

Yeah what's stopping a team that runs a lot (say, the Royals of this year) from lathering up the bases with some stickum?

Geust

3:06

Good because the elegies are excellent

Jay Jaffe

3:06

the obviousness of the ploy, Dys. I mean, it's not gonna be the visiting team that gets sanctioned for that.

Dan Szymborski

3:06

I'm glad you're enjoying them! They got really good response last year so decided it was worth continuing. Playoffs just kinda throw everything off. Unless I die or something, all 30 will be there!

Jay Jaffe

3:06

Dan — and I cannot stress this enough — don't die, please.

Ben Clemens

3:07

"This at-bat could be the series." That seems unlikely?

Dan Szymborski

3:07

well, ideally no

Ben Clemens

3:07

Like, how do they think baseball works??

Jason P.

3:08

This broadcast booth is good. Probably the best of all the national broadcasters.

Ben Clemens

3:08

You know, I actually agree with this. I'd like to see a Jess Mendoza/Ron Darling booth, because I think she's quite sharp and he has his moments, but of what we have, it's the best.

Guest

3:09

How crazy is it that rookie eligibility is based off AB and not PA still?

Matt W

3:09

Hey dan, how are the kitties?

Dan Szymborski

3:09

Trouble. I haven't gone completely upstairs because I dread what the kitchen looks like after the noises I heard

Ethan

3:09

The Statcast broadcast was really enjoyable

Ben Clemens

3:09

Yes, obligatory "except the Statcast broadcast" reminder.

3:10

The Statcast booth is the second-best possible booth, behind only Benetti + Bill Walton.

Jay Jaffe

3:10

as I said behind the scenes earlier to my colleagues, I though the Brian Anderson/Ron Darling booth on the Cardinals-Braves game was good

Pete

3:10

I get irrationally annoyed when people use ABs instead of PA

Josh

3:10

I gotta say that I have learned that watching sports with the sound off is a generally enjoyable experience. Joe Davis and Orel are great for Dodger games, but not listening to the call and just watching the game is very nice

Ben Clemens

3:10

I like correcting people by saying plates appearance.

RandyMarsh

3:10

Respect to what the Astros FO has done, etc etc & there are a lot of likeable players w/ teh Astros but as an Asian AMerican, as long as they employ Gurriel I will root for that team to fail.

And sadly, they're probably not going to

Jay Jaffe

3:11

enjoyed the Statcast booth too but as with this one, being tasked with writing/chatting while listening means I get less out of them than the viewer

RandyMarsh

3:11

Can we get the inside the nba crew do an mlb game? I just want an MLB version of Barkley

RandyMarsh

3:12

like Barkley also is a bit of an old fart when it comes to analytics, but most of all what separates him from the MLB counterparts is that he's still having fun out there

Dan Szymborski

3:13

Yeah, the problem with some of the straw hats in baseball is that they're SUPER ANGRY about the stats stuff all the time.

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