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AvatarDavid Laurila
8:52
Chas McCormick quietly had a good season for the Astros.
5 Run Homer
8:52
I probably overrate Albies based on Vibes but he just rocks, he might be my pick on these rosters
Brooks
8:52
probably a chance for a pitcher like Max Fried or even Framber to out-WAR Yordan over the next few years.
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:52
Metrics are always gonna fall short on Fried
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:52
8:53
AvatarDavid Laurila
8:54
Soler's leadoff home run is now the sixth-hardest-hit ball tonight, per Statcast. We're still in the top of the second inning.
Jake Cave
8:54
About Fried's metrics, why is that?
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:54
His contact rates are high for today's age
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:55
Framber's giving Maldonado a workout tonight
Roach
8:55
An interesting what-if is if the Astros hadn't selected Mark Appel as the #1 Overall Pick in 2013. Do they sign Kris Bryant? Or do they stay with pitching and select someone like Jon Gray?

Also, is Mark Appel the worst #1 overall pick due to the fact that he never made it to the pros?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:55
No way, he got higher than Brien Taylor
AvatarDavid Laurila
8:56
Wheels.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:56
Appel made a comeback this year, though it didn't go super well
Joe
8:57
Weird sequence from Valdez. 4 straight terrible pitches
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:57
He doesn't have a fourseam
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:57
Eating gold is clearly performance enhancing
Lzfreak
8:57
This could get late early
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:57
OH I THOUGHT YOU MEANT O/U 10 RUNS FROM THE STARTERS
Hugh Duffy
8:58
Fried pitches to contact. His goal is to induce weak contact. When he's on, he's largely successful at it. His average exit velocity was 86.5 mph.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:58
ZiPS knows about exit velocity and I assume Steamer is too
Huge K
that's two bases loaded strandings already
AvatarAlex Sonty
8:59
I wasn't castin' shade on Fried. Was just saying that -- yeah -- because he pitches more to contact than so many, the surface numbers are a bit deceptive.
AvatarDavid Laurila
8:59
To the person who said that Mark Appel "never made it to the pros"... uh, no, He's pitched six professional seasons.
Mr. 954
9:00
. What music do you put over games when you can't stand the announcers?
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:00
Nothing specific for me
AvatarAlex Sonty
9:00
Cannibal Corpse
Oddball Herrera
9:00
86.5? Not impressed, my opponent exit velo in my beer league softball team is way lower
AvatarDavid Laurila
9:01
Speaking of beer, I just opened a Mountain Ale, by the Vermont-based Shed Brewery. It’s a brown ale.
DBRuns
9:01
Only one middle- to lower-market team has made the WS in 5 years (Tampa in 2020). Is there a concern about the growing divide between the haves and have nots? Feels like the “intellect” gap has significantly shrunk, and the “resources” gap is driving more and more outcomes.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:01
Whiel that's a concern, you're also choosing an exact number of years to make it look the most stark
AvatarAlex Sonty
9:02
AvatarDavid Laurila
9:02
Per Baseball America’s JJ Cooper on Twitter: “Statcast has Albies at 4.12 from the right side on that infield single. He was booking.”
GoBarves
9:02
Monkless belgian dubbel for me
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:03
The Astros/Dodgers combined are 6 of the last 10 WS teams. You don't count the Rays and that just leaves 3 possibilities.
AvatarAlex Sonty
9:03
There's more parity in baseball than we discuss. I said before the WC games that there were seven legit contenders in the postseason.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:03
And if you go six years you get Cleveland then two years of KC.
9:04
Any team in the playoffs can get to the WS. The question should be if small market and mid market teams have trouble getting to the playoffs.
9:05
There's no Big Market + Smarts reason which made Tampa Bay or Milwaukee not advance to the CS this year
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