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Paul Swydan

9:49

Absolutely they could. They'll be a dangerous team in October, especially if Chapman gets fixed.

Jeff Goldblum

9:49

Why am I the best actor since Laurence Olivier?

Paul Swydan

9:49

Because America loves a sexy guy with glasses?

Pie

9:50

Brad and Cameron both seem super high on Rhys Hoskins, what say you?

Paul Swydan

9:50

I'm on board.

Jeff Goldblum

9:50

Someone asked a different FG staff that if all US kids who played sports had been forced to focus on baseball, what percent of MLBers today would still be in the MLB? I believe the staffer said 90%. That sounds way, way too low, right? There's obviously some self selection among MLBers in certain skills (hand-eye coordination, body control, etc.), but there would be a lot of amazing athletes who could have focused on developing baseball skills. I'd say 50-70% would be more correct.

Paul Swydan

9:51

I think you meant you think 90% is way too high. I don't think it's WAY too high. Maybe like 80%? I think a lot of kids drop baseball because it is a very hard sport, and even singular focus on it wouldn't help a ton.

But it is fun to wonder about.

Ben

9:51

Who wins AL rookie of the year

Paul Swydan

9:52

Still gotta be Judge.

3.7 WAR gap. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=al&qual=0&t...

Can't see Benintendi making that up in a month, even if Judge doesn't play the rest of the way.

Tony

9:52

Feelings on Chris Davis for next year? Trending the wrong way?

Paul Swydan

9:53

Yup.

Paul Swydan's Wife

9:53

How would you grade my tools?

Paul Swydan

9:53

All 80s.

J.D Martinez

9:53

Why does no one call me elite? I know I get hurt a lot but still

Paul Swydan

9:54

Because there are three phases to baseball, and you're only good at one of them? And you get hurt a lot.

Tony womack

9:54

re: on the contracts, the huge contracts are horrifying. See rodriguez, alex

Paul Swydan

9:55

A-Rod didn't earn his last contract, but he was never going to. He DID earn his first big contract (the one the Rangers signed him to).

Anon

10:00

Which player have you been the wrongest on?

Paul Swydan

10:00

Sorry my computer crashed.

Franklin Morales, Brian

10:01

Rose

But Rose was before I did this for a living so that doesn't really count.

10:02

Anyway, doing this on an iPad sucks, so I'm gonna call it a night. Thanks for hanging out, as always!

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