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Kevin Goldstein

8:58

C'mon, America is worst at lots of things.

Dan Szymborski

8:58

But here some fighting in the floor directly above me, which is the catlets (if Cassiopeia was involved, there would be hissing)

Ian Swirka

8:58

Those are excellent but I do miss Basquiat and Damage as Bogey and Devers from the previous batch.

Big Bubba Crosby Guy

8:58

Yankee fan chatter is that Higgy calls a bad game, does Higgy even call the game? Or is that almost all pre determined pitching plans?

Kevin Goldstein

8:58

There is absolutely a meeting, and a LONG one about game calling and attack plans, but Higgy is putting the fingers down based off that meeting.

8:59

If Yanks lose this. Is Boone gone? (He should). Is there a chance that Cash is gone too? (He should too methinks)

Kevin Goldstein

8:59

We had a poll at this earlier, results were right around 2 to 1 yes.

For Boone. Not Cash. Cash is really good.

Morbo

9:00

The box cutter is oddly apt for Gardner

Two Dads Playing Catch

9:00

wow bucky dent looks a lot younger than I would expect him to be

Jason

9:00

What's your best guess on a Rizzo contract? A 1-year show-me?

Kevin Goldstein

9:00

I would bet on a modest multi-year, what does ZIPS tell us, Dan?

Jon Becker

9:01

Maybe 2y/$26M?

Kevin Goldstein

9:01

My gut was 2/24 with a weird option or something.

Jon Becker

9:01

A lot of intangibles that I think lots of teams value to some extent but he's been more good than great the past two years and that's no bueno for a 1B-only

Dan Szymborski

9:02

ZiPS says 2/33 or 3/45

Kevin Goldstein

9:02

99 drop down! That was awesome.

Jon Becker

9:03

Weird to say Eovaldi's a finesse power-pitcher, but that's really what he's been tonight. Locating really well, varying his windup and release points just enough, keeping hitters off balance

5 Run Homer

9:03

When Eovaldi is on he's underratedly fun to watch

Morbo

9:03

Who's his agent?

Guest

9:03

I was hoping the Eovaldi-Rizzo matchups would be worth the price of admission!

Kevin Goldstein

9:03

Rizzo has Sports One. Kinda a mid-size group with a few big leaguers. He's their biggest client.

The Stranger

9:04

How much work did you all put into the FG staff playoff predictions? Literal coin tosses? quick run in ZiPS? Detailed position-by-position breakdown of every potential matchup?

Jon Becker

9:04

Now this is a fun question. Not much work!

Dan Szymborski

9:04

I did my projections before ZiPS

Jon Becker

9:04

Ultimately it's very much a crapshoot, so I don't want to psych myself out by going with anything but my gut

Kevin Goldstein

9:04

I spent 37.2 seconds on it.

Cora Cora Cora

9:04

So I leave Nate in if all goes well for 6 then turn to the pen like Cash did with Snell...or do I let him go longer if he is only hovering around 80-90 pitches?

Kevin Goldstein

9:04

If he looks like this after six and is in the 80s in terms of pitch count, he gets the seventh.

Dan Szymborski

9:05

I had my award ballot to fill out and I spend a *lot* of time with that, so I don't go crazy with the playoff picks.

Jon Becker

9:05

I definitely don't think the Red Sox are going to be overthinking it with times through the order. The bullpen just isn't good enough for that right now

9:06

If it's a close game they'd probably be thrilled to have Whitlock be the only reliever they use

9:06

Was Yanks impatient on Eovaldi, or did he get better because he left Yanks? I know he had a big injury, but Yanks surely could've hold on to him if they wanted

Camden

9:06

Middle-inning talk, any word on the Winter Meetings this year? As bright-eyed and bushy-tailed college grad trying to make it in baseball, there does not seem to be any public info on when it is going to happen. Also the PBEO has nothing posted.

Kevin Goldstein

9:06

I mean, it's in Florida (yikes!) and we might (will probably) be a week into a work stoppage . . .

Dan Szymborski

9:07

SUPER NINTENDO

Kevin Goldstein

9:07

Live by the elevated FB . . . you know the rest.

YardGoat

9:07

This feels like a game that will be 2-0 or 2-1 entering the 7th

Kevin Goldstein

9:07

How about now?

Dan Szymborski

9:08

If you hit a ball 600 feet, should they take a run away from the opponent too?

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