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Jay Jaffe FanGraphs Chat - 6/13/23
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Captain ACAB
3:02
Do you listen to any non-Fangraphs related baseball podcasts?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:03
as I don't commute, can't listen to a podcast while writing, and need music for workouts, I only listen to podcasts once in a blue moon. Kevin Goldstein's was the closest I ever had to a regular listen, and that's long gone.
Sammy So-so
3:03
Do you think Gary Sanchez carves out several more years of major league service time, even if as a backup? The bar is so low and it doesn't seem like all his skills have completely vanished. Thanks.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:04
Yes, I think he still has something left in the tank, though I don't expect him to keep slugging .592.
Warren
3:04
Spending a week in Truro in July, favorite Cape league stadiums to check out?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:07
I've only been to a couple, and Orleans works very well for us — it's supposed to be the best of the venues. Brewster, the other one I've been to, was fine, though.
Captain ACAB
3:07
Who is your favorite not very good baseball player from your youth?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:08
I will always have a particularly soft spot for Mickey Hatcher, whose first major league homer happened during my first encounter with Vin Scully, on a family drive to California while listening to Don Sutton's 50th shutout. Hatcher of course came up huge in the 1988 World Series, so I'm buying the drinks if we're ever at the same table.
Gil
3:08
Posey isn't a HOFer in your eyes? Just didn't do it for long enough?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:08
Welll, there's a brain cramp on my part considering i'm the guy who wrote this:
Guest
3:09
What chance do the Pirates have of winning their division?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:09
I don't see how any of the five NL Central teams can possibly win the division.
3:10
But if somebody has to, maybe it is the Pirates, who are a whole lot more fun than they've been in awhile.
3:12
If the Brewers could keep their rotation healthy and effective I'd favor them, but Corbin Burnes has been rather ordinary, Brandon Woodruff, Wade Miley and Eric Lauer are all hurt, and that lineup hardly looks imposing.
Captain ACAB
3:12
What player do you feel is JAWS "most wrongest" about in terms of their value or HOF worthiness?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:14
Lou Brock, perhaps. 3,000+ hits, and had the single-season and career stolen base records. Dynamic, smart player who served a huge role on 3 pennant winners and two champions, but just 37th in JAWS in LF, two spots above the bottom-scraping Chick Hafey.
Yankees Fan
3:14
Why don't the Yankees, given their roster construction and injury problems, do a better job of playing their prospects elsewhere? Peraza in center, Wells in LF/1B, etc. It worked well for the Cubs in the late 2010's to have guys able to play multiple positions and the Yankees just sit there with their hands up in the air when their hitters are injured.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:20
They did move Cabrera off the infield last year and it worked well, but he stopped hitting this year. Peraza has his hands full handling major league pitching, so i don't see where having him take up the outfield is going to help, and likewise, moving Wells, a catching prospect to the outfield in midseason isn't going to happen if they still believe in his ability as a receiver (I know our prospect team has soured on him, but he has yet to log an inning in the outfield this year).
3:21
LeMahieu has multiposition ability but it's not so sexy when he's not hitting. It would be great if they could suddenly mint Ben Zobrists on demand but that's harder to do than you suggest.
Castellanos
3:22
Will the Phillies be okay without my geopolitical expertise?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:22
I hear that they believe Schwarber is a better candidate for secretary of state.
ADHD+
3:23
What can the Cardinals expect from Jordan Walker for the rest of the year? Does he stay up in the majors?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:25
the guy's hitting, which is more than I can say for the other outfielders besides Nootbar, who's injured, so I think he has to stay up. I don't think he'll maintain the
.314/.385/.514 line and 10% strikeout rate he's had since coming back but it wouldn't surprise me if he winds up with the highest wRC+ of their outfielders.
Doug
3:26
Tatis keeps doing his thing, would MLB balk at having him at the all-star game if he’s not voted in?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:27
If Bartolo can make an All-Star team post-suspension I don't see why Tatis couldn't, assuming the performance merited it.
Vermonty
3:27
When will the Yankees wise up and trade away (and stop acquiring) injury prone players?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:27
Tomorrow.
They'll trade every single player on the roster, introduce the Wells-Peraza-Cabrera outfield, start Deivi Garcia like he's Old Hoss Radbourn, and storm to a pennant.
Phil
3:28
Following from Ben Clemens's piece on low BAs today--would a guy with a BA below 200 but an above average OBP and, say, 550 HRs have a shot at the Hall? Assuming no scandals and competent but unstellar defense.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:30
Hall voters have historically overvalued batting average, and penalized players with lower marks; that's why it took Harmon Killebrew, with his .256 AVG and 573 homers, four years to get in. Even today,  have a hard time imagining a player with a sub-.250 AVG getting elected, but it's not like we have anybody who's a threat to reach 550 homers with a low AVG waiting in the wings
Steve E.
3:31
You could also have said, "Rhymes with daffy." sunglasses
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:32
True, and I used to enjoy reading about the "Daffy Dodgers" of the Babe Herman era.
Phil
3:32
Thanks for chatting on your vacation!
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:32
it's not quite a vacation, at least not yet. I'm up here for two weeks and put in about one week of work spread across that time, mostly front-loaded
Chichikov
3:33
Any former prominent FG writers who took front office jobs (Cameron, Fagerstrom, Sullivan, Cistulli, etc.) in new/different roles than what they wrote in their original departing articles?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:34
I haven't kept tabs on all of them but Cameron has moved on from the Padres to the Mariners, in the role of senior director of player procurement.
Ben
3:34
If Arraez someone hit .400 for the season with 6 WAR and the Marlins miss the playoffs, but Acuna has 9 WAR and the Braves win the East, how close would the MVP vote be? Would it depend on how many HR and SB Acuna gets?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:34
In a scenario like that, my money is on Acuña as the MVP given the multiple dimensions of his game and the tie-in to the Braves success
3:35
ok folks, it's time for me to catch a few rays on the deck before doing a radio thing. Thanks so much for stopping by. Stay tuned as to whether I get another one of these in next week. Until then, happy baseball!
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