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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat - 3/23/20
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Eric
1:33
If there's no baseball this year, how do you think that will effect prospects?  I'm thinking along the lines that they'll continue to age, yet not continue to develop their skills.
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:35
Even in the context of partial seasons — let's not ponder the loss of a full one just yet  — it's a real bummer to think about lost developmental time for prospects, especially given the way the game's economic structure already works against them.
JT
1:35
suck it odor!
Pat
1:35
Here is Gibby vs Eck. I was wrong, it's close to 10 minutes.
STRAY
1:38
When you can check out the Mid-West Baseball League (MWBL) http://www.straybaseball.com/mwbl - It's our way of being little Kids & still loving the game.
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:40
I had to spend a couple of minutes poking around the site to figure out it was an APBA Baseball For Windows league and not Out of the Park or something else. It looks like you and your pals have devoted a lot of time and effort into the league and it history, which is cool.

I just got a media copy of OOTP, which I had never played before — I gave up any kind of gaming to start moonlighting as a writer 20 years ago. I'll be writing about that experience and my impressions of the game at some point, hopefully soon
Guest
1:40
Pujols ruins Lidge:
Pat's Bat
1:41
Kevin Mitchell
Matt V
1:41
My favorite clip is baseball Rashomon: a great moment, and an interesting window into the difference that perspective makes. The video gets fuzzy in places, but the calls are really what matter
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:43
Oh man, i was in a Boston bar for that one. Emma was on a panel for something that took us up there and the group went out for beers afterwards, and my first thought after watching it was "there goes Jim Leyland's  shot at the Hall of Fame." Which may or may not be true but that's what came to mind.
Hopeful White Sox Fan
1:43
THe Mark Buehrle perfect game was a thing of beauty.  2 hrs and 3 min, his hardest pitch was 88MPH.  God I miss that guy.  It was playing on MLB yesterday.
Pat's Bat
1:43
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:43
Bonds vs. Gagne there
JAWS
1:46
How will you factor this season, if it happens, in players' JAWS scores, particularly if it affects WAR7?
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:48
as with players who missed time due to military service or the strike, it's context that I note in the grand scheme of things rather than an explicit formula. I might note for example, that this player probably lost 10 WAR and two peak seasons to WWII, and that we should be mindful of that if he doesn't quite measure up to the standards at his position.
Pat
1:48
& Detroit fans will go their graves saying the ump squeezed Benoit on the pitch prior to the Ortiz grand slam. That is the one baseball game that still sticks on my craw to this day.
AvatarJay Jaffe
1:51
Every fan understandably believes that the ump squeezed or otherwise screwed the pitcher who then gave up the big one. I know Padres fans who will forever believe that Mark Langston got the shaft on a 2-2 pitch whose call went in favor of Tino Martinez in Game 1 of the 1998 World Series, just before he hit a game-breaking grand slam. it's the nature of fandom.
1:54
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