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

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Ben Clemens

11:24

ROGERS-CROMARTIE

I dunno, maybe he played in high school and his high school had ... yeah okay fine

Duhawks

11:25

Us there any new analysis on if the Statcast proprietary metrics are any good? I recall upon them being created they weren't any better than regular old wOBA but people used them anyway

Ben Clemens

11:25

If you mean xwOBA and that kinda thing, they're more descriptive than predictive

Eric A Longenhagen

11:25

First and third for Arizona's Daniel Susac of the many catching Susacs. 0 out, still 5-4 Sun Devils here

baseballenjoyer

11:25

Martin Maldonado spends more time on his hair than anyone in the league only to be disrespected in this chat

Kevin Goldstein

11:25

I guarantee you I am Martin Maldonado's biggest fan.

Morbo

11:26

I hate that I'm about to say this but Bryce Harper has pretty solid hair

Eric A Longenhagen

11:26

a pretty blockable wild pitch scores the runner from third, tied at 5

Harper is the David Lee Roth of baseball

OH YEAH

Ben Clemens

11:26

The Angels have a low-key great defensive infield

BunkMcNultys

11:26

if you only had one predictive metric (and couldn't see anything else about a player's profile other than hair), it would be...

Ben Clemens

11:26

Barrel rate? It's kinda cheating, it tells you a few things

Chris

11:27

Slater hit a ball with a 99 mph exit velo and a 29 degree angle 346 feet for a homer. So much for a dejuiced ball

Kevin Goldstein

11:27

Ball is flying period in SEA tonight.

Duhawks

11:27

As a member of multiple Brewers Blog communities, I can guarantee you, KG, you are not Martin Maldonado's biggest fan.

Kevin Goldstein

11:27

I'll take the bet.

George

11:28

You'd rather have barrel% than xwoba which accounts for that as well as K% and BB%? It's not perfect predictively but it's sure better than barrel%

Eric A Longenhagen

11:28

Susac hit a really hard grounder to short, throw forced the 1B off the bag, ball came loose when he tried to apply tag. first and third 0 out again for Arizona's best hitter draft prospect for this year, Ryan Holgate.

Ben Clemens

11:28

Muuuuuuch rather have barrel rate

not even close

Kevin Goldstein

11:28

Pinder with another run-saving catch.

Ben Clemens

11:29

like, it does a good job of saying what a hitter *should* have done

but if you hit a bunch of flares to shallow OF

well, those have like a 1.000 xBA

But they're not particularly replicable

Adam Eaton top 2-hole hitter

Morbo

11:29

I'd rather have the underlying data that goes into barrel rate

Kevin Goldstein

11:29

Hah.

Ben Clemens

11:30

I mean haha okay sure

Morbo

11:30

As and 80s child I'm old enough to know who David Lee Roth is and that he was part of Van Halen but not old enough to understand if that is a good or a bad thing

Kevin Goldstein

11:30

And now, the best song ABOUT Van Halen ever:

Phil White

11:30

I've really missed watching a grounder up the middle turn into a base hit

Kevin Goldstein

11:30

Embrace change.

Duhawks

11:31

Interesting (barrel over xwoba). I just got annoyed how they put a predictive name on it and all the sudden everyone used it as a predictive stat. Still do. "He had a .330 xwOBA last year, he is due for a breakout"

Ben Clemens

11:31

I think they should have called it dwOBA

deserved

Dodger Fan

11:33

Former always-somehow-in-Boston man Mitch Moreland now batting

Ben Clemens

11:33

Gonna be weird turning on a Sox game and not seeing him

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