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Meg Rowley

4:14

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/fangraphs-2018-staff-predictions/

We all effed up the East

Craig Edwards

4:14

this would make for a great game, for sure.

Myself, Obviously

4:14

Are we chatting the second game

Jay Jaffe

4:14

No, the Nationals F'd up the East

Meg Rowley

4:15

Ohhhh baby yes, we are chatting

Jay, you are, as always, correct

Jay Jaffe

4:15

except when it comes to the Twins as WC2, and the Yankees/Red Sox standing. And that's just the AL predictions

Meg Rowley

4:16

Jeff was the only person to get all of the AL teams right

stever20

4:16

What % odds do you give that come Thursday we have Cubs/Brewers part 21?

Craig Edwards

4:17

55%

Eric A Longenhagen

4:18

Howdy, all

Meg Rowley

4:18

Hi Eric!

Sean Dolinar

4:19

👋

Meg Rowley

4:19

Mary Hart has gone with a Dodgers jersey for today's game.

Sean Dolinar

4:19

that emoji won't save on the transcript.

Matt

4:19

Do you guys put any money on your preseason predictions?

Meg Rowley

4:20

Not officially, though I suppose some folks may have side bets.

CamdenWarehouse

4:21

The side bets are probably for something weird though, like positions played by Astudillo

Meg Rowley

4:21

This is almost certainly true.

caesarsolid

4:22

Congrats Eric on picking the Brewers preseason

Eric A Longenhagen

4:22

Woot, woot! I got the second NL Central team wrong, though. Picking an unexpectedly disappointing team is like picking a 12-5 upset in March. I got mine wrong this year, thought it'd be Cubs, it was Nats.

Nate

4:22

Anyone that thinks Pittsburgh is awesome, is awesome

Sean Dolinar

4:22

Agreed.

Julian

4:22

Does Marquez throw both a slider and curveball like his pitch info says or not really?

Eric A Longenhagen

4:22

Yes, started working more with changeup and slider this spring, took more quickly to the slider.

4:23

You'll see the slider at 87-89, curveball just beneath that with more depth

Bruce

4:23

If Shohei can bat next year while rehabbing from TJ, could Corey Seager have played 1B or something this year?

Jay Jaffe

4:24

probably not. historically, position players have needed at least six months to come back.

DodgeGuys

4:24

Hernandez has to catch today at some point? Finish off the year having played every position including pitcher.

Eric A Longenhagen

4:24

Here's Marquez from mid-March, when he was tinkering

Jay Jaffe

4:25

The number of Dodgers fans still angry over Roberts using Kiké to pitch the 16th inning could fill Dodger Stadium, and while I've been pretty dismissive of them — come on, it's an emergency situation at that point, and you don't want to take Rich Hill out of the bubble wrap — but then again, if they'd won that game...

OddBall Herrera

4:27

Do September expanded rosters apply to the tiebreaker game? Call up your whole 40 man roster, and if it looks like you're losing, put the scrubs in

Meg Rowley

4:27

They have 40, and six umps.

NathanLazarus

4:28

Walker Buehler and German Marquez both had an xFIP- of 76.

Jay Jaffe

4:28

it's not one with marquee names but this is one hell of a pitching matchup, one of the best you can get among active players under 25

Carson Cistulli

4:28

Hello, again. Child procured.

DodgeGuys

4:29

There are Dodgers fans angry about that? I find that so hard to believe. Kiké brings me so much joy. But I guess other fans find any excuse to get mad at Dave.

Jay Jaffe

4:29

yes, this. same people probably call the president of baseball ops Fraudman

Carson Cistulli

4:29

Meg and Eric: you guys recently saw Zack Greinke face Mike Leake, a pair of Athletic Pitchers™. Is Walker Buehler another one of them?

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