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AvatarDan Szymborski
9:28
They already do! But at least the player gets paid for the year he was manipulated out of
Dystopian Future
9:29
Would teams ever trade for impending FAs then, from your model? Or is it all proportional to actual service time used.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:29
Proportional.
Just Kidding
9:29
Is Fangraphs gonna cover the Felipe Vasquez scandal?
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:29
Didn't anybody write anything on it?
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:29
Greinke works out of trouble with another easy fly ball. He's only thrown 60 pitches through 5 but the hard hit balls tell me he's not long for this outing
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:29
That's not usually my type of thing to write about. I don't have the sensitivity to write about very serious things.
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:29
Unless you're a lawyer, what is there to say about Vazquez besides WTF eeuw, lock him the hell up?
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:30
It's kind of a Sheryl piece but we don't have Sheryl anymore!
Hire Joe Morgan?
9:30
Speaking of which, Jay, will you be adding another labor lawyer to the writing staff this winter?
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:30
right. She has the tool to advance the story on that one. i don't have anything meaningful to say about Vazquez
Dystopian Future
9:31
If you're Aaron Boone do you pull Tanaka?
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:31
I'm not the one who makes staffing decisions here, but I imagine we'd like to have at least a contributor with some facility in that area.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:31
At 46 pitches? NFW
Sean
9:31
Wait where’d Sheryl go?!
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:31
Beyond the Box Score
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:31
yeah no. Boone will have a quick hook but not that quick
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:32
Yeah, I don't make staffing decisions either.
But just on a general level, it's always good to have a lawyer handy
Eric
9:33
Are there any updates on Jonah Keri?  Haven’t heard a peep since his arrest a few months ago, which leads me to believe he’s guilty of everything reported...
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:33
Haven't heard anything at all about Jonah.
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:33
COurt date in November, that's all I know
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:33
Check the news from time to time, but there hasn't been much out there.
Richard
9:34
Greinke is the starter who's looking shaky, not Tanaka.
Hire Joe Morgan?
9:34
How would that affect service time manipulation?  They're still incentivized to keep players down untnil they're stars.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:34
Yeah, but at least the guys for whom the service time issue matters would get paid for it.
Pieman
9:35
What if the player had the pay his former team a set percentage of his salaries over the 6 years of service time? That would encourage teams to pay players more in order to increase their future cash flow.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:35
Wait, what?
This makes no sense to me.
Dystopian Future
9:36
I don't trust how shaky pitchers look, at all. All it takes is two batters and you lose the lead. Tanaka is a 4.27 FIP pitcher this year. Why are you risking this? You have the best bullpen in baseball.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:36
He's not even at 60 pitches
Daniel
9:36
That’s like “what if there was a reserve clause, so they had an inventive to bring folks up.”
Giodude
9:36
My goodness Judge is so good at fielding
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:36
wow, some excellent Aaron Judge defense there, doubling Bregman off first after catching Alvarez's fly
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:37
AvatarJay Jaffe
9:37
his UZR and DRS numbers are insane, 12.7 and 19 in just 775 innings
Hire Joe Morgan?
9:37
A man that large should not be so nimble.
Dystopian Future
9:37
I can't even really blame Bregman for that, it's not like he was past second or anything; Judge just threw a missile.
Daniel
9:38
Well, everything is closer to him
That Guy
9:38
Was there any whispers at all of Judge's defense in the minors? Him being a plus-plus RF has gotta be the least expected part of his emergence, no?
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