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Division Series Live Chat - 10/5/18
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Jeff Sullivan
4:34
Some of us have to work, Sean
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:34
Beer is the work-lubricant.
Jeff Sullivan
4:34
If you are happy with your work being bad
Meg Rowley
4:34
In a postseason where we've talked a lot about the obvious weaknesses some teams have, it seems like we haven't talked enough about how stupidly balanced the Astros are, too.
Jeff Sullivan
4:35
Their only real problem is whether Carlos Correa is back to being Carlos Correa yet
Sean Dolinar
4:35
I know! When am I not on my laptop at an FG thing?
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:35
By bad, you mean great.
Jeff Sullivan
4:35
Sean raises a good point. Sean is easily the FanGraphs MVP. His work is just different and harder than ours
Meg Rowley
4:36
Strong agree.
schmoo
4:36
Chacin works a clean first despite *rocky* start. Get it? Rocky?
Jeff Sullivan
4:36
I forgot how these chats go off the rails when there are two games overlapping
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:36
Or just that I'm around.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:36
to say nothing of two questions overlapping.
Meg Rowley
4:36
Me, several times: I can't figure this out, I have ruined The Hardball Times! Sean, five seconds later: Fixed it.
Sean Dolinar
4:36
Awww...thanks guys!
Phil
4:37
Wouldn't 1, 4, 7, and 10 ET have been a better solution for the start times??? That way there is less overlap. I won't see the Rockies game until it is maybe the 4th inning.
CamdenWarehouse
4:37
then who is the FG Cy Young?
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:37
Apples FanGraphs.
Meg Rowley
4:37
I think they'll take the overlap to avoid that late of a last game start.
Jeff Sullivan
4:37
Also these games always go five hours anyway
Daniel
4:38
Isn't it insane that the defending world series Houston Astros have to play only day games in the division series?
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:38
Maybe they're reverse vampires and it helps them.
jj
4:38
Oh by Fangraphs chat, you mean all the writers at fangraphs chat with each other and we just watch...cool. Can you have this everytime you have a 'team' meeting?
Sean Dolinar
4:38
Be careful what you ask for.
Meg Rowley
4:38
(shudders)
Nick
4:39
Why are some pitchers able to adjust with age but not others? Humans are incredibly malleable, it seems really sad that some players would be too stubborn to make the changes necessary to continue being effective. Though I doubt it's due to players not trying, but just a matter of mental makeup?
Jeff Sullivan
4:39
There's also the matter of why a player declines in the first place
If it's just a physical problem, well, you can't get re-athletic
And who's to say finding the right adjustments is easy?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:40
throwing a baseball repeatedly with high intensity is an unhealthy act. there's just no getting around it. Some bodies age better than others while doing it.
Anonymous
4:40
Reverse vampires can only enter homes they're not invited into.
Jeff Sullivan
4:40
Yeah. Verlander is the exception; Felix is more of the rule
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:40
4:41
Check. Mate.
Gary
4:41
As an Astros fan...I'm starting to wonder what we were thinking with our bullpen a little. I love Josh James, but how do you leave 4 guys out who have been so clutch for you historically over the last year in a playoff series? And what's the point of carrying Jake Marisnick and Myles Straw over adding one more RP? Ryan Pressly is a monster that deserves more love though
Jeff Sullivan
4:41
Rotation is going to work so deep and you can change the roster for the ALCS if you want
Guest
4:41
Plus, not everyone can find a Kate Upton
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:41
for all of the complaints about day games, the one damn absurdity about playoff baseball is when they overlap and we can't stream one game on a device while watching another on the TV.
Derek
4:42
How did the Astros get such a stacked bullpen? Like, I recall their bullpen being good last year, but not this.
Jeff Sullivan
4:42
Good signings, good trades, good player development, one acquisition of a player suspended for domestic violence
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