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FanGraphs 2024 Opening Day Chat

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Matt Martell

7:54

As long as your byline is Tim Tebow’s Thunder Thighs

Davy Andrews

7:54

Word.

Smiling Politely

7:53

Fave pitching: Glasnow. You can absolutely see him winning the Cy if he stays healthy.

Too Many Mooks

7:53

Nice to see Darvish Darvishing too!

Guest

7:54

Anyone have any info on if Bednar warmed up to come in the pit game? Looking at the box, i was thinking it's weird he didn't pitch in any of the 9th inning or later

David Laurila

7:54

Pirates broadcasters said he wasn't healthy. Illness presumably (hopefully).

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

7:54

Can't get much better than Burnes vs the Angels. 11 strikeouts, no walks, only blemish being a solo homer to Trout? That's a great day at the office.

Davy Andrews

7:54

Ok everybody, I've got to finish writing my article about the most exciting play in all of baseball. It was a pleasure chatting with you.

Kyle Kishimoto

7:55

gotta also give props to skubal, leading the field with 20 whiffs on only 83 pitches

NetflixnRichHill

7:55

Thanks for the Bednar info!

Kyle Kishimoto

7:55

bye davy!

Davy Andrews

7:55

Bye, friend!

David Laurila

7:56

Re: pitching performances today, Skubal was superb. Webb was also very good; the BABIP gods were cruel in the inning he gave up two runs,'

Too Many Mooks

7:56

Yeah even though it was the White Sox, Skubal damn impressive

Hendrik

7:58

Not sure if it's actually new, but I like Bally keeping the count on the screen at all times rather than hiding it for the gun reading just after a pitch has been thrown. Instead they're hiding what inning it is. As someone who doesn't pay attention every second of every game, I'm much more likely to remember what inning it is than what the count was!

Matt Martell

7:59

Leadoff triple!

5 Run Homer

7:59

Morel is fun

David Laurila

8:00

With three west coast-time-zone-games on tap for tonight, it bears noting that two of them involve east coast teams. I'm not a fan of this. Opening-day games should be reasonably convenient for all fans to watch. They could have been played in late afternoon on west coast.

Ben Clemens

8:01

Hey David, hey everyone, just got to my computer to start chatting with you guys.

Kyle Kishimoto

8:01

hi ben!

Ben Clemens

8:02

wow packed house of chatters, I like it

Looking to the future already…

8:02

When can we expect an updated Guardians’ prospect list? Or are we out of prospects until the #1 pick is made?

David Laurila

8:02

I believe that a Guardians list is coming very soon.

David

8:02

It'd be a little rough for local seattlites to get to the stadium at a 4PM start

Kyle Kishimoto

8:02

it is unfortunate that teams have to make a tradeoff between making game times conducive to fans at the ballpark vs. tv viewers across the country

David

8:04

Totally agree, it's never going to be perfect, other than maybe making opening days same(ish) timezone. That said I'm just happy the Mariners don't risk a rainout for their first 6 series of the year.

David Laurila

8:04

I think teams should prioritize home fans the vast majority of time. Opening day should be an exception, to reasonably accommodate fans of both teams playing the game.

Jon Huntley

8:04

I'm sitting here in Boston waiting for a 10pm start. The things we do for the love of the game...

8:05

There’s no reason to have East coast teams playing West coast teams today in the first place. You can schedule it so no is more than 2 times zones apart.

Ben Clemens

8:05

I completely agree

David Laurila

8:05

I am in Boston and not planning to stay up for the game (or at least not much of it). That I got up at 5:30 this morning is a factor...

David

8:05

They definitely had an opportunity to have more than a single game at the 4 PDT / 7 EDT slot. Probably intentional to feature the Champs though.

Ben Clemens

8:06

maybe there needs to be ONE off-time-zone matchup, but they should just match em up

Smiling Politely

8:06

Ben! As a proud Midwestern Farmer, how do you feel about Miles Mikolas's/Cards' general outlook? The projections are rosier than I would have thought given the rotation, but maybe Goldschmidt is gonna go all late career bonkers on us

Ben Clemens

8:06

The pitchers are not good

but they're hopefully not awful

so I feel okay! I love the young crop of position players

8:07

I see we're getting irresponsible with our Wyatt Langford comparisons FAST. The broadcast just compared him to Trout, Bregman, Posey, and Goldschmidt

5 Run Homer

8:07

Langford’s arms are HUGE my goodness

UTIL

8:08