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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat – 11/18/22
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AvatarJay Jaffe
3:45
Never and forever are a long time. Someday he'll be there, I think. Whether you or I or he live to see it, or it's dolphin/human hybrids with flippers who vote him in after the seas rise, I don't know.
A Boy Named Yu
3:45
If they ever created a Baseball Movie Hall of Fame, what 3-5 movies are in your inaugural class?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:48
Bad News Bears, Bull Durham, A League of Their Own, 61*, Bingo Long's Traveling All-Stars. I'm not sure I have enough to get it to 10, honestly — a lot of the other big name ones make me cringe.
Gashouse Gorilla
3:48
Last year several top-ranked players took much shorter deals  because they weren't satisfied with the longer ones. Do you think that will recur this year, and do you have any particular players you think prone to it?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:48
One year cleared from the pandemic there's record revenues in the game and so I think the expectation is that we'll see longer deals.
Guest
3:48
Why are designated hitters lumped in with first basemen? Especially now with the universal DH, shouldn't DHs have their own rankings and metrics?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:52
For JAWS purposes a player who spent most of his career at DH is considered in the context of the fielding position where he had the most value. Ortiz at 1B, Baines in RF, Edgar and Molitor at 3B. There just aren't enough HOF-caliber DHs to consider them separately; I'm not going to suggest we should build a JAWS where this is the top 15:
3:53
that's players who spent 40% of their games at DH, which doesn't capture the way the position classification works anyway (it's by where a player accrued the most value even if it's not the majority of his games).
Matt (Oceanside)
3:53
Hi Jay, I saw you didn't include Field of Dreams on that short list. Curious as to your take on that movie?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:54
I don't have the energy to rehash it but I agree with most of what Craig Calcaterra has written on it https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2017/02/13/field-of-dreams-is-absolutely-ter...
3:55
ok folks, thanks for stoping by! There's no chat next week due to Thanksgiving but please know I'm deeply thankful for the audience and colleagues I have here at FanGraphs. Take care.
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