JotCast | FanGraphs White Sox/Astros ALDS Game 4 Chat

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Kevin Goldstein

4:55

Sorry, had to take President Pierce out to do his business.

Jimmy Wynn's Toy Cannon

4:55

Agreed re: the Astros in the ALCS, but if the Dodgers make the WS, I imagine the MLB would be very intrigued in a 2017 rematch.

Ben Clemens

4:55

Yes, agreed

Rematches are always juicy

Kevin Goldstein

4:55

Astros/Dodgers would be incredibly compelling.

Ryan

4:56

I recall Kevin recently saying there are no small market teams. Was that sincere, and if so could you elaborate?

Kevin Goldstein

4:56

Sure. There are no small market teams. Owning a baseball team is a license to print money. Period.

The Rays could sign a big name FA and still make money.

Teddy

4:57

Would/should the Yankees consider trading for Shohei

Ben Clemens

4:57

It takes two to tango, and the Angels aren't trading him

Kevin Goldstein

4:57

Exactly.

Ben Clemens

4:57

Someone could make a lot of money developing a solo tango

Kevin Goldstein

4:58

Michael Brantley: professional hitter. One must say that during every at-bat.

Kevin

4:59

What a bummer for that pitcher. No one has ever made this joke. I'm the first one.

Andrew

4:59

Non-Brantley players: Apparently they throw in the hitting for free. Not Michael. He charges.

Ben Clemens

5:00

The walks you can get for free

The hitting? That'll cost you

N. Hornblower

5:00

Kevin, were you ever privy to how much the Astros made on a good night between, tickets, concessions, and mercy?

Kevin Goldstein

5:00

Just a little. I did once get some amazing insight on how much it costs to run the AC with the roof closer on a hot day. It's a TON. Five figures.

barney gumble

5:01

are the Yankees going factor the emergence of Peraza and (while still a few years away) Volpe into the size of the contract they'd give out for a SS? or do you just acquire the talent and see where the chips fall?

Kevin Goldstein

5:01

If you're the Yankees? The latter.

Ben Clemens

5:02

I just looked at the clock and how is this game going SO slowly?

There hasn't been any particular time sink

The injury was maybe 5 minutes?

Kevin Goldstein

5:02

Holy crap, it's 4pm, time to figure up game 2 on the extra monitor.

5:04

Astros games drag. Almost the whole lineup is a quality AB. White Sox have thrown 127 pitches through six.

Pinstripe Perry

5:05

For KG: In your chats you often talk about a good manager being worth wins (plural) every year. With the reports of Boone coming back, just curious how you view him? Tough to tell how he does a lot of the job, but the observable things (bullpen management, dealing with media, etc) leave a lot to be desired.

Ryan

5:05

I know this would affect all games, but commercial breaks are longer in the postseason right?

Ben Clemens

5:05

Yes

Kevin Goldstein

5:05

I think we can look at what we can look at (in-game strategy, media, etc.), but most of the job is not accessible to the public so it's really very hard to judge from the outside.

5:06

It's one extra ad in the playoffs, right?

WaitWaitDontTellShe

5:07

There's lots of opinions, but what "problem" should the 100 win Rays fix this offseason? It looked to me like they got cocky in their ability to turn bad 30 year olds into good 31 year olds, so they traded away good pitching (Snell, Castillo, Matt Liberatore, Joe Ryan), brought in bad pitching, and then got hammered in the playoffs. You gotta be cocky to trade Adames for Feyereisen and Diego Castillo for Chargois. That management team looks overconfident from the outside.

Kevin Goldstein

5:07

They won 100 games and lost a playoff series. I can happen to any team. They could spend some in FA and be better, they choose not to.

It's silly to act like they're bad because Boston bounced them.

Ben Clemens

5:08

I would argue that to the extent that there's a problem, it's that we tend to overrate their skill level based on their regular season record

b/c they're just so good at getting the small edges from the back of the roster

5:09

That doesn't somehow make them worse in the playoffs

But if the Rays were run with the same players but like a more 'normal' team, maybe they win 93 games and we're not so surprised when they lose

5:10

Would you say wins above Pythag. Expected Wins to be somewhat indicative of a manager's effect of managing bullpens?

Ben Clemens

5:10

Eh.... too noisy

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