JotCast | FanGraphs 2022 Opening Day Chat

FanGraphs 2022 Opening Day Chat

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Morbo

3:35

Over under on Pujols reaching 700 hr this year?

Jay Jaffe

3:35

If Pujols gets enough chances to hit 21 HR this year, then something has gone very, very wrong in St. Louis.

Dan Szymborski

3:35

Burnes' second walk last year wasn't until May 19th.

Jeremy

3:35

Joe is right, it's one thing to have relegation if you've always had relegation. But is there any major pro sports league anywhere in the world that added relegation/promotion long after getting popular and established?

Dan Szymborski

3:35

None

It won't happen

3:36

The only way you could even theoretically make it happen is if you start another baseball league and PROMOTE 15 teams to it

and ht's like a billion to one shot

Eno Sarris' Sandwhich Induced Nightmares

3:37

What the heck is relegation?

Dan Szymborski

3:37

The Orioles get demoted to Triple-A and the Triple-A winner gets promoted to MLB

5 Run Homer

3:37

One of my favourite early-season things in baseball is the ugly brown ivy at Wrigley. That's April baseball, babey

Jay Jaffe

3:38

I don't give a damn about my team's relegation
You're living in the past, it's a new generation.
A team can do what it wants to do and that's what the Orioles are gonna do...

(apologies to Joan Jett)

Dan Szymborski

3:38

You could kidnap the families of 23 team owners and STILL not get the votes for promotion/relegation

Doug Lampert

3:39

Relegation in MLB would require that they'd never developed the minor league development contract.

Another Ben

3:39

Not from the projections, but who would you guys like to win the WS?

Dan Szymborski

3:39

Orioles

Appa Yip Yip

3:39

It's funny imagining Joey Votto getting called up from the AAA Reds to the Louisville Bats though

Dan Szymborski

3:40

I gotta admit I don't dig yellow cleats with this uniform

RTJ

3:40

RE: Favorite parts of early April baseball: The overreactions to the first 5% of the season

Gashouse Gorilla

3:40

Some of these extensions, if priced right for the team, and without no-trade provisions, seem as much as about creating a valuable contract for later sale as they do locking up a promising talent to help the team.

Jay Jaffe

3:40

Teams love cost certainty, and surplus value. Below-market extensions make some players very desirable targets for trades.

Dan Szymborski

3:41

Don't forget - teams have to have a payroll at least150% of their local revenue sharing poll for the burden of proof of fund misuse to be shifted to MLBPA

it was 125% last CBA

Frank Thomas the Tank Engine

3:42

Do you ever get gently reminded to use graphs in your articles? This is Fangraphs after all.

Dan Szymborski

3:42

It's FangRaphs

David Laurila

3:42

Can't help but wonder how good this year's Brewers team would be if there were more impact bats. Pair the Harvey's Wallbangers-era offense with this pitching staff and you have an all-time-great team.

Dan Szymborski

3:43

Didace

3:44

Relegation is a bad idea even if it was workable. Look at European soccer - With rare exceptions, it's the same few clubs that are any good in all of the leagues.

David Laurila

3:44

As an Everton fan, I don’t want to even think about the R word right now.

Frank Thomas the Tank Engine

3:45

Setting aside sentimentality, where would you place the next two expansion teams?

Dan Szymborski

3:45

Are we setting aside legal plausibility?

Eno Sarris' Sandwhich Induced Nightmares

3:45

I'm not sure how thrilled I am about the choice of Cubs-Brewers to kick off the opener. This chat is mostly talking about everything else... presumably because the game is kinda boring.

Jay Jaffe

3:45

The schedule was not tailored for this to be Opening Day because of the lockout, and furthermore the Yankees-Red Sox 1 PM game — which coincidentally happened to be marquee caliber — was rained out

Dan Szymborski

3:45

I'd put a team in NC and another team in NY

Anita Bath

3:45

PORTLAND & MONTREAL

Gerald

3:45

Re: Black Americans, I love baseball, but I really only think it starts in '47 for me. Also, I think people deeply underrate Jackie Robinson's actual career, especially as a hitter. He was a deserving HOF in ten seasons even if he wasn't the barrier breaker. That's ex

David Laurila

3:45

Jackie was definitely better than a lot of people realize.

Frank Thomas the Tank Engine

3:46

No, current rules apply, so no third New York area team

Dan Szymborski

3:46

then Montreal and NC

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