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Alex Sonty

9:49

As someone who uses baseball to make a living, I've missed four of the last five World Series.

Dan Szymborski

9:50

Usually, the number of unique readers is about 6-12 times that of our max at any one point

David Laurila

9:50

Speaking of the Boston games, getting to cover the ones played at Fenway will never get old. Fantastic experience.

Quarantino Martinez

9:50

Is there a tastier matchup than the Salt vs. Eggs Odorizzi?

GoBarves

9:50

You know you're old an married when your wife and her friends get the TV to watch the bachelor and you're relegated to streaming and chatting with FanGraphs strangers on your computer

Jeremy

9:51

Alex, aren't most MLB players baseball junkies?

Dan Szymborski

9:51

I'd say no!

Alex Sonty

9:51

Barves, you need a mancave

Dan Szymborski

9:51

Some are. A *ton* aren't.

Alex Sonty

9:51

I don't think so, Jeremy

Jeremy

9:52

Is Jake Odorizzi the shortest strider in baseball?

David Laurila

9:52

FWIW: Odorizzi has always been fantastic to deal with media-wise. Both accommodating and thoughtful.

Cream

9:52

If you are Snitker, do you just have to use your “A” bullpen guys this game if the margin stays around 5 runs, or do you try to sneak one of the lesser guys in for an inning or two?

Alex Sonty

9:52

I like going to the back of the pen around now.

ChuckNChino

9:52

the Orioles players haven't been paying attention to baseball since May.

Alex Sonty

9:53

The Astros mash LHPs and RHPs, but noting that they're righty-heavy could be a clue.

Jeremy

9:53

Huh, ok. So, they mostly like playing and practicing, but other than that they're mostly not watching baseball all the time?

Dan Szymborski

9:53

Players are very good at *playing* baseball. But it's also a job and it's a job that takes so much of your time

9:54

David, what made it great to cover games at Fenway?

David Laurila

9:54

It’s Fenway. Fantastic atmosphere.

Dan Szymborski

9:54

That a ton of players when they have free time away from playing baseball or traveling for baseball or training for baseball, want to focus on other things in their actual free time

Alex Sonty

9:54

I don't know MLB players. Like I said, as a human with an MLB-related career, burnout is real. The sports therapists are probably telling them all to not look at a ball for some time if they don't have to. But this is all conjecture.

Guest

9:55

Would you prefer to see your team sign Joc Pederson or Jorge Soler to play the OF?

Dan Szymborski

9:55

Soler's upside is more fun

David Laurila

9:55

As someone who sees a lot more A.L. baseball than N.L. baseball, I knew Albies was fast, but I didn't know he was this fast.

Guest

9:55

Is anyone else sick of Shohei Ohtani hype? He had an excellent season, yes, but by fWAR he was worth 8.1 WAR; we've seen comparable or better seasons many times recently in the past few years alone. So doesn't it seem ridiculous to, say, give him an historic achievement award?

Alex Sonty

9:55

What he did was historic

Dan Szymborski

9:56

Yeah, ti's the fact that he did as a hitter AND as a pitcher

And not in the normal pitcher way of hitting 200/230/300 or something which is amazing for a pitcher but kinda sucks for normal hitters

GoBarves

9:56

Wow, could not disagree with Guest more

Quarantino Martinez

9:56

I can't believe I just read an anti-Ohtani take in real life

B’Ryce Hammer

9:56

How could anyone ever get tired of the Shohei show? Dudes a monster, at the plate, on the bases, and on the mound.

BigDaddeh

9:57

I think in coming years the 2021 Ohtani season will become more historic, not less historic. Still seems hard to believe what he did

Jeremy

9:57

Now I wonder if this varies by sport? Do most NFL or NBA players watch a lot of their own sport as well as playing/practicing it? Or are they mostly the same as MLB players?

Alex Sonty

9:57

I would think NFL players take the four hours or so to watch the one big game and plenty of NBA players are junkies who play all year 'round.

Dan Szymborski

9:57

Baseball is 162 games. That's a LOT of baseball

Guest

9:58

Re: Ohtani: But you could easily say that what Mike Trout did as a rookie is "historic" or what Miguel Cabrera did in winning the Triple Crown is "historic" or on and on. There are all sorts of "historic" achievements that don't get recognized the same way as Ohtani does.

Dan Szymborski

9:58

But the Triple Crown is just being really good at specific things that are correlated with each other

ChuckNChino

9:59

Ohtani is amazing

David Laurila

9:59

A handful of spring trainings ago I asked an Angels coach who had the best raw power on the team. He said it was Trout, but Ohtani wasn't far behind.

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