JotCast | FanGraphs Opening Day 2020 Chat - Part I

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Ben Clemens

10:54

I think

I don't know the exact rule to be honest. Too many changes coming this year

Jay Jaffe

10:55

ah i think it's suspended only if it hasn't reached official status

Ben Clemens

10:55

One thing I've often wondered about Cueto: would he throw harder with a regular delivery

10:56

He definitely has several variations where he can't get his core into it quite as much

David

10:57

I thought they were saying all games were played in full on ESPN after the rain stopped...

Jay Jaffe

10:57

Continuation of Suspended Games. OBR 7.01 (“Regulation Games”) and 7.02 (“Suspended, Postponed, and Tie Games”) shall be adjusted to permit the continuation of non-regulation games (i.e., less than five complete innings) that are ended because of weather. Such games shall be treated as suspended games that will be continued at a later date (see OBR 7.02(b)) and resumed at the exact point of suspension of the original game (see OBR 7.02(c)).

Ben Clemens

10:57

Yeah, but Manfred said it, and as we know, anything Manfred says on ESPN gets walked back shortly thereafter

Jay Jaffe

10:57

from the 2020 operations manual

Anonymous

10:57

More likely: SF Giants sweep this series OR SF Giants are forced to use a position player as a pitcher at some point in this series?

Ben Clemens

10:57

Sounds like a poll!

10:58

What's more likely?

Giants sweep series (52.9% | 36 votes)

Position player pitches (47.1% | 32 votes)

Total Votes: 68

David

10:58

Cheers Jay, was about to ask if someone could find the rule on it but you beat me!

Jay Jaffe

10:59

yeah i don't see anything about suspending games that have gone past 5.

Derek

10:59

Well, most likely is "neither"

Ben Clemens

10:59

SUre

What's more likely, asteroid strike or alien invasion?

Emil

10:59

May's at 40 pitches and is 1.5 times through the Giants' lineup. Is this probably his last inning?

Eric A Longenhagen

10:59

May threw as many as four innings in camp

Aspergilius fumigatus

11:00

These count as complete games for Scherzer and Cole, right?

Eric A Longenhagen

11:00

he piggybacked with Buehler like 5 days ago

Ben Clemens

11:00

They will, yeah

Jay Jaffe

11:01

i think the broadcast said Roberts said 75 pitches for May

Ben Clemens

11:01

Loving the personalized masks, btw

Babo

11:02

Is it a quality start for Cole?

Ben Clemens

11:02

Huh

I don't believe those are official stats

Jay Jaffe

11:03

it's not a QS since a QS by definition is at least 6 innings

(and yeah, not official)

Ben Clemens

11:03

So a) no and b)Dayn Perry is cited in the Wikipedia article on quality starts

Eric A Longenhagen

11:03

lol

Jay Jaffe

11:04

i like QS more than I do pitcher wins, tbh

Ben Clemens

11:04

Dayn Perry of CBS Sports has introduced what he calls the "Dominant Start".[9] This stat would award a pitcher with a Dominant Start if he goes at least eight innings, and give up no more than one run, earned or unearned. This stat means that if a pitcher pitches a complete game and gives up two unearned runs, he would not get a Dominant Start. Perry argues that this stat would better show which pitchers are truly the best in all of baseball.

Odds of Carson having put that in there as a very weird piece of public art have to be higher than 0

Jay Jaffe

11:04

lol yes

Eric A Longenhagen

11:05

Lakers Mavs replay still has a quarter left on NBA TV if people wanna shake off that 'recall' button rust and regain feel and timing

Derek

11:05

"Dayn Perry is an author and possible baseball journalist. He was also a special consultant for the San Diego Padres from 2001–2003." - Wikipedia

Matt

11:05

I know Cueto has been doing this forever, but are we just supposed to pretend that his delivery isn't illegal? The rule seems pretty clear. Delivery has to be made "without alteration or interruption."

Ben Clemens

11:06

No one knows what deliveries are and aren't legal. If he threw to first halfway through the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps (to quote Spaceballs), I feel confident they'd call a balk

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