JotCast | FanGraphs 2023 Opening Day Chat

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Shirtless George Brett

4:41

How is Kluber the opening day starter for anyone?

Kyle Kishimoto

4:41

To be fair he had a 3 win 2022

Darth Vader-A Cubs Fan

4:41

They don't call him Scoopin Hosmer for nothing

Scoops

And

BARRELS

Ben Clemens

4:41

Kluber is not the worst opening day starter

Blake Seams

4:41

I'm so excited to see the Stros kick things off tonight. Sometimes I don't know how anyone ever hits Bryan Abreu. That slider is absolutely gross. Plus I get to watch Dubon hit. So that's... cool...

Kyle Kishimoto

4:42

If he walks less than 12% of batters he'll be one of the best relievers in baseball

Ben Clemens

4:42

Bo Bichete? Bo Bichette?!?! Where?

(did that throw go)

ryan

4:42

My favorite thing about Manoah is how quickly he went from being drafted to being an all star caliber starter. I think we're all aware that he's likely not going to repeat what he did last season, but the fact that we're having that conversation about a guy who pitched like 40 MiLB innings and has a season and a half in the show is pretty cool

Chip Locke

4:42

Manoah just given the "effectively wild" descriptor by Cards booth. Someone tell Lindbergh

Leo Morgenstern

4:42

Interesting, I wouldn't call Manoah wild

Vin

4:42

Bo Bichette with his first "Oh, Bichette" of the season

B'ryce Szymbobski

4:43

Laes Nootbar looks way taller than I imagined

Ben Clemens

4:43

He's sneakily big, it was always confusing that he didnt' hit for power

Yeah Well Hiura Towel

4:43

Back-to-back triples vs. deGrom

Leo Morgenstern

4:44

The Trea Turner experience is off to a good start

Dan

4:44

Are more runs scored on opening day than a random day in April? Better pitching but more games than average I assume.

Ben Clemens

4:44

My guess is more but fewer runs per game

Shirtless George Brett

4:44

Greinke is calling his own game with pitch com. It feels like this should be more of a thing for no other reason than speeding up the game.

Kyle Kishimoto

4:44

You could also simply.be like mark Buehrle and never shake off the catcher

Ben Clemens

4:45

Greinke has already shaken himself off once

(in spring training)

ryan

4:44

Manoah leads the league in HBP, so it's easy to call him that even though it's b/c he'll challenge up and in and not just being super wild

5 Run Homer

4:45

deGrom is having a very strange debut

Birds

4:46

Which is more likely - steal rate increases through the season as teams realize how much easier it is, or steal rate decreases through the season as teams adapt to counter it?

Ben Clemens

4:46

Oh, fun question

4:47

I think decreases is more likely but I do not have strong conviction

ryan

4:47

Baumann is going to be right with his prediciton about deGrom vs. Lynn, not because deGrom is hurt, but because He's Cooked

Ben Clemens

4:47

This is the least likely prediction we could have made.

Leo Morgenstern

4:47

Fun to see a run-scoring double play sac fly in Mets/Marlins

Birds

4:47

Devers called out on an automatic third strike!

Leo Morgenstern

4:48

Pitch clock violation on deGrom?

what just happened?

Derek

4:49

there's a pitchcom thing happening with DeGrom right now

Morbo

4:49

Devers probably should have been paying attention

Ben Clemens

4:49

Jordan Walker is going to get an insane ovation given how big of one Contreras got

Birds

4:50

I just realized I bet automatic strikes become way more common in late innings of uncompetitive games

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