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Eric
8:44
Miley/Sanchez has to be the best potential match up
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:44
Wade Miley isn't starting. He'd be dead meat against this righty-heavy lineup
Michael
8:44
Is that fastball stat just looking at hits/contact or all fastballs. Would the decrease in HR partially be because they’re harder to hit?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:44
Of course
I'm doing this as quickly as possible as there's a live chat!
5 Run Homer
8:45
Miley/Anibal, I think he means
Dystopian Future
8:45
Those same 60s Orioles vs the Mets in '69 was probably pretty good too, for SP.
Eric
8:45
the radio broadcast is like 3 mins behind
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:46
Or you're slightly time-shifted into the past like in a Star Trek TNG episode
5 Run Homer
8:46
Has Cole boosted his FA stock in the postseason?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:46
I don't think postseason is a big deal in contract any more than just added starts/at bats to their record
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:46
I don't think his stock can go much higher. I also know that no front office type will tell you that they pay off postseason performance
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:46
Maybe the Royals
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:47
LOL
if the Royals didn't exist, we'd have to make them up.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:47
Now, postseason is long enough and changes can be enough to actually improve/worsen the projection.
Dan Murphy several years ago, his postseason flurry really affected his projected enough to increase the ZiPS projection by I think $7 million for the contract.
8:48
But it's because there were new games, not because they were POSTSEASON per se
Hi Matt
8:48
My friend Matt is also chatting. Can you pass this along to him. Looking forward to shuffleboard tournament next weekend.
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:50
Dan, you include postseason stats in your projections?
Guest
8:50
Dammit Dan i was gonna say Daniel Murphy
Alex Samuels
8:50
Is it just me or is Kyle Tucker a combination of English nobleman and Dwight Schrute?
Lunar verLander
8:50
Broadcast suggestion: postseason stats are small sample nightmares. They should instead just show stats against teams > .500 winning percentage.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:50
National TV still has this idea that postseason baseball-playing is some magical different thing where everything comes down to moxie, so seasonal stats don't matter
Hire Joe Morgan?
8:51
Not just you.  He looks like Benedict Cumberbatch playing Tommy Edman.
Eric
8:51
Jay, my comment (Miley/Sanchez) was for the question about best possible match up in world series if HOU vs WAS, not this series
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:51
that one went way over my head, sorry.
Dystopian Future
8:51
I mean, the TV broadcast still prominently features batting average. Don't expect much from it, we're not their target audience.
Guest
8:51
Or they could just show regular season stats
AvatarJay Jaffe
8:52
through 3 innings, one hit and no run for either team. both pitchers have faced the minimum
Adam2
8:53
Recovering addict Bubbles should not be tending bar
stever20
8:53
so taking outside the Postseason narrative - what happened to Kershaw the last quarter of the season and in the postseason.  Finished that period with an ERA over 4.75 and a FIP over 6.  15 homers in the 47 innings.   That's what made this year seem so different- it felt like what happened to him this year was how he was at the end of the season...
Byron Buxton
8:54
Eovaldi last year?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:54
It did give him more starts - I think his performance after joining Red Sox was the bigger deal
and he was fine with the Ray stoo
Rays too
Eric
8:55
Why are there no great baseball video games being made?  Isn’t that a useful medium to get youth interested in the sport, if that was an objective of MLB?  Not saying this is THE solution but it could help out some...
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:55
MLB the Show is a great baseball video game.
There actually aren't *that* many sports video games. MLB the Show is the only game in town largely because 2K had the license for so long and once that was gone, it's a lot of work to get INTO the market.
8:56
Madden every year isn't like making a whole new game, they have older stuff to build on
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