JotCast | FanGraphs After Dark Chat

Paul Swydan

4:47

What is tonight's best matchup?

NYM (deGrom) vs. PIT (Nicasio) (8.9% | 14 votes)

CHC (Hendricks) vs. PHI (Eickhoff) (8.3% | 13 votes)

KC (Ventura) vs. BAL (Jimenez) (3.2% | 5 votes)

HOU (Keuchel) vs. TEX (Hamels) (49.7% | 78 votes)

WAS (Ross) vs. CHW (Latos) (1.3% | 2 votes)

TB (Moore) vs. ARI (Greinke) (5.1% | 8 votes)

TOR (Sanchez) vs. DET (Boyd) (7.6% | 12 votes)

CLE (Anderson) vs. SEA (Miley) (1.3% | 2 votes)

COL (Butler) vs. LAD (Urias) (12.7% | 20 votes)

BOS (Porcello) vs. SF (Suarez) (1.9% | 3 votes)

Total Votes: 157

4:50

What is your favorite kind of nut?

Peanut (14.6% | 22 votes)

Almond (15.9% | 24 votes)

Cashew (27.8% | 42 votes)

Pecan (1.3% | 2 votes)

Walnut (6% | 9 votes)

Pistachio (23.2% | 35 votes)

Macadamia (6% | 9 votes)

Filbert (0.7% | 1 vote)

Hazel (1.3% | 2 votes)

Other (list in comments) (3.3% | 5 votes)

Total Votes: 151

4:54

Do you think someone besides Cain/Bradley Jr. should be a starting outfield AL All-Star?

No, those guys have been great. (6.2% | 12 votes)

Mark Trumbo (13.3% | 26 votes)

Jose Bautista (3.1% | 6 votes)

Mookie Betts (55.4% | 108 votes)

Alex Gordon (0.5% | 1 vote)

Adam Jones (0.5% | 1 vote)

George Springer (9.2% | 18 votes)

Ian Desmond (7.2% | 14 votes)

Adam Eaton (2.6% | 5 votes)

Other (list in comments) (2.1% | 4 votes)

Total Votes: 195

9:01

Hi everybody!

Jeff Zimmerman

9:01

TheDudeofNY

9:01

Peanuts are not nuts.

Paul Swydan

9:02

Picky, picky, picky.

Dave in London

9:02

Thoughts on Leonys Martin this year and going forward? Is he due for a significant regression, or is he as good as he's looked this year?

Paul Swydan

9:03

Well, he's on the shelf right now, but I think he has a good chance to be this good, assuming he comes back healthy.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:03

I am not 100% buying it and have looked at him in detail. I don't buy all the power. I give 33% chance he is breaking out.

Macho

9:04

Arenado and rosenthal for odor, Ian Desmond, conforto and Michael Feliz. 12 team keep 10 forever. Holds and OPS league.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:05

I like the 4 person side even though Arenado is the best player in the deal

Paul Swydan

9:05

I guess it depends on how you see Conforto. If you see him as the 130 wRC+ player he was last year, I'd take his side. If you see him as the 113 wRC+ player he's been this year, I hang on to Arenado.

Gord

9:06

Thoughts on Joc? Doesn't look like he's improving.

Paul Swydan

9:07

He's swinging at more pitches out of the zone, which isn't great, but at the very least, he's not regressing further.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:07

I think you are seeing his best, just barely above league average hitter

Slow Rollers

9:07

Hey Paul do you think now is the time to try to shop Xander Bogarts? Can he keep up this pace?

Paul Swydan

9:08

While allowing that he is both currently my and my son's favorite player, the answer is probably. It'd be hard for him to run a .400 BABIP all season.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:09

I don't know if he is at his peak value yet. I don't think the past 1.5 seasons has made people forget about his early struggles

Paul Swydan

9:09

Sorry, that wasn't clear. The answer is you should probably shop Bogaerts now if you're looking to maximize a return.

DISAGREEMENTS!

9:10

Though seeing as how he's leading the All-Star vote, it seems a good portion of the fans have forgotten those struggles. :-P

Larry Bernandez

9:10

Why do the Pirates keep sporadically having Polanco hit near the bottom of the order so they can put Freese in the 3-hole? He's hit lefties pretty well this year, and they even have him hitting 7th in the second game of today's doubleheader, against a righty.

Paul Swydan

9:11

I suspect it's just to keep Freese humming and keep harmony in the clubhouse.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:11

Who knows what managers are thinking.

Paul Swydan

9:12

Also, Freese hit third for the entire first month. Even with Polanco emerging, some habits die hard.

Michael Woods

9:12

How many international amateurs subject to bonus-pool restrictions do you see signing for more than $1 million before the current period ends June 15?

Jeff Zimmerman

9:12

Paul Swydan

9:12

Oohh, you want the Eric Longenhagen chat for that sort of question.

Anal Hershiser

9:12

I should be mad at myself for expecting more from Freddie Freeman right? 25 homers with 37 RBI was always going to happen on this team.

Paul Swydan

9:13

I mean, I don't know if you should be mad at yourself about it, but yeah, that was definitely always going to happen with that team.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:13

That team is so bad, but after digging into the draft $$$, getting into the first 4 picks, especially #1 is a huge binus

9:14

bonus

Jim

9:14

You say its "After Dark" chat. But, given its midsummer, dark happens here at appx 7 us pac time, can we get you for false advertising? If I wait for 'after dark', I will miss the chat !

Paul Swydan

9:14

Well, technically you could read the chat transcript after dark, so...

Jeff Zimmerman

9:14

Yea, what Paul said.

Jimmy

9:14

Predict the Braves next competitive window.

Paul Swydan

9:15

I can't see them being competitive before 2019.

But I've been wrong before.

Jeff Zimmerman

9:15

3 years from now if everything goes right

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