JotCast | FanGraphs 2021 Opening Day Chat Part II: Even More Chat!

FanGraphs 2021 Opening Day Chat Part II: Even More Chat!

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Eric A Longenhagen

11:09

also 80 hair

Ben Clemens

11:09

Alcantara looked good too, though

Kevin Goldstein

11:09

Great catch by Chad Pinder on a drive by Tucker, saves a run....

Ben Clemens

11:09

How many swinging strikes do you think is David Fletcher's one-game max

11:10

Gonna go look this up really quickly

Dodger Fan

11:10

Correa plunked, Oakland crowd going nuts

Jake Mailhot

11:11

Really love the small rivalry the A's and Astros have developed over the last few years. They really don't like each other.

Kevin Goldstein

11:12

They really don't.

Ben Clemens

11:12

Fletcher had 5 swinging strikes against the immortal trio of Darwinzon Hernandez, Ryan Brasier, and Brandon Workman in 2019

Kevin Goldstein

11:12

Giolito v. Trout for you channel flippers....

BunkMcNultys

11:12

If we assume there are 25 X 30 MLB players, and 80 means 3 SDs above the mean, that means we have 11 guys with 80 hair. We've got Glasnow on the list. Who are the other 10?

Ben Clemens

11:12

Put Rendon on there, I'd say

Kevin Goldstein

11:12

Tatis

Ben Clemens

11:13

I haven't always loved the curls, but they're great at the moment

Harrison Bader?

Jake Mailhot

11:13

Ben Gamel

CWess

11:13

Trout isn't getting a heater in the zone this whole AB after the 96 he pulled foul his first AB

dag.nah.bit

11:13

This is fun. Can we do this every day? Lol

Kevin Goldstein

11:13

Every day? No. We got content to create. Do it more? Absolutely.

Trout walks.

Ben Clemens

11:14

We did some watchalongs last year, we'll probably do some again

Nate

11:14

Brandon Crawford has 80-grade hair.

Ben Clemens

11:14

on twitch

Jake Mailhot

11:14

Crawford is too wet to be 80 grade

Ben Clemens

11:14

I'm giving Crawford like a 35

The wetness is off-putting

Dodger Fan

11:14

Corey Seager for the 80 hair.

Jake Mailhot

11:15

Corey Seager's brother breaks up Gausman's perfect night

dag.nah.bit

11:15

Gregory Soto's hair today?

Kevin Goldstein

11:15

OUTSTANDING. Unlike his performance.

Wow

11:15

With the way Giolitto (tonight) and others (Devin Williams comes to mind) can change the shape of their change ups pitch to pitch, is there really any use to categorizing them as the same pitch when one breaks 2 inches glove side and the next 5 inches arm side? Do you as a scout categoize them separately?

Ben Clemens

11:15

This is an old question that I went back up to

B/c I forgot to answer it

Yeah it's tricky

11:16

check this out

@tangotiger Here's another, Lucas Giolito. One clue is the SSW (red), which seems to spread out in two opposite directions, one leading to armside shift, other leading to upward shift. There are probably others who also do this. It's not so hard to find them with graphs like these.