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Paul Swydan

9:46

That's next level. Literally.

Pie

9:47

<robot voice> Go team.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:47

Replay at the Asg

Paul Swydan

9:47

Safe

Paul

9:47

Hi guys - So many articles about the Cubs and Dodgers and the NL/AL East ... So few about the Giants, Indians and the rest of the league ... It is surprising that Fangraphs writers are just like mainstream media: it is all about the narrative and the big media markets

Paul Swydan

9:48

It always blows me away when people make these complaints. We're literally putting up 8-10 articles a day for FREE but that isn't enough for some people.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:50

Nice play there

Paul Swydan

9:50

In the last two days there was an article on the Tigers, one that focused on Nomar Mazara and one on Jake Lamb.

The first three articles on Friday focused on the Cardinals, Rangers, Reds and then one shortly thereafter was on the Pirates.

9:51

But you're right, we're totally biased. Just Cubs Dodgers and AL/NL East.

Who is John Galt?

9:51

I don't think my option of "Battle royale between each league's chosen combatants" should be relegated to "Other" for your poll question.

Paul Swydan

9:51

You should have spoken up sooner!

Adam

9:51

Would robot pitchers or robot hitters have the advantage?

Paul Swydan

9:52

Depends on the programmed biases of the robot umps.

John

9:52

So as a Yankee fan, I was clearly not bothered by the whole Mariano and Jeter lovefests that occurred during their final season. Were they as annoying as the Ortiz one is now? If so, I'm sorry

Paul Swydan

9:52

Yes, yes they were.

Baseball loves its history.

Also, Jose Quintana is very good.

Rick

9:52

Also Cistulli wrote about the Brewers. That's as anti-mainstream as it gets

Jeff Zimmerman

9:52

The lovefests were horrible

TengoPreguntas

9:53

on the real though, please don't say your iz is free if you have ads on your site. I respect you guys, but saying its free is not true when there are ads.

Paul Swydan

9:53

Seriously? Would you prefer we just do all this work for free? How do you think we pay our writers? If you want to read the work of lots of unpaid writers, SB Nation is that way.

Cain Marko

9:53

Do we know why the NL is wearing gray? To distract from the hats maybe?

Paul Swydan

9:54

They awarded the game to 2 consecutive NL parks because Petco had been kind of passed over. You're supposed to get the game soon after you open a new ballpark.

TengoPreguntas

9:54

I don't say you should do it for free, but i also don't think you should count it as free?

Paul Swydan

9:55

You don't have to pay money to look at ads the last time I checked. In fact, you don't even have to look at them.

EccentricChemist

9:57

Is this the real Wil Myers moving forward, a guy that can be a 4-5 WAR guy each year now that he is finally healthy and has found a home at 1B?

Paul Swydan

9:57

I think he's probably closer to 3-4 WAR, but yes, for a few years at least, this should be who he is.

9:58

That was very nonchalant by Ramos. I though that was landing in the stands.

EccentricChemist

9:59

Now that Myers got a double, does he get taken out or is he playing all night?

Paul Swydan

9:59

I'm sure he'll come out soon.

kel varnson

10:00

Will jason heyward be this pedestrian through his prime years or can we expect more offensively from him? If so, what's the realistic ceiling we're looking at?

Paul Swydan

10:01

No, this has by far been his worst offensive season. I would expect him to be better moving forward, and he has been better since June started.

EccentricChemist

10:02

Why did Rod Carew get the naming rights to the AL batting title...weren't there a few better average hitters then him over the years?

Paul Swydan

10:02

That's a good question. Anyone know the answer to that?

10:03

"This time it counts!"

"This time we're having a random song sung during the middle of the game!"

Jeff Zimmerman

10:03

Not sure, was Brett higher. Brett was the only player to win the Batting title in three different decades

10:04

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=al&qual=y&type=8&season=2016&month=0&season1=1871&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=13,d

Dave Stewart

10:05

I admit it. I come to Frangraphs every day and downvote every comment.

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