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Jeff Sullivan FanGraphs Chat -- 4/27/18
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11:10
At what point does a trade go from a "heist" to just unexpectedly working out years later?  Didi was a passable (if slightly better than expected) SS for years before this run; did the Yanks steal this from the Dbacks, or is it so attenuated that we can't say what would have happened in the alternate timeline
Jeff Sullivan
11:10
I think a "heist" is a trade that is almost immediately lopsided
One team takes advantage of another team just not properly valuing its own player
With Gregorius, even the Yankees wouldn't have figured he could turn into something this good
Mike
11:11
You guys talked on EW about Kyle Schwarber not being faster despite the weight loss. Is there data about the difference in his acceleration or first step?
Jeff Sullivan
11:11
Not that we have access to
But I wouldn't get my hopes up
Twins Slumps
11:11
Twins hitters are down across the board (Sano, Rosario, Buxton, etc.). Do you contribute that to the weather/schedule? Which of these guys do you think will get the wheels back on?
Jeff Sullivan
11:11
I wouldn't worry much at all about how the Twins have looked through the first month of the season. They've had the strangest first month of any team in either league
Ubaldo Jimenez
11:13
Man, is that Alex Cobb deal ever looking bad for Baltimore, huh?
Jeff Sullivan
11:13
Cobb is obviously much better than this, but at some point the Orioles need to learn a lesson about bidding against themselves
That point was a few years ago
Finland's #1 fangraphs reader
11:13
Do you think Tyler Austin could hold off a healthy Greg Bird?
Jeff Sullivan
11:13
No
YKnotDisco?!
11:13
Was Ottavino hurt last year? Or is he just an (extreme) example of the year-to-year variance of being a reliever?
Jeff Sullivan
11:14
His mechanics were out of whack
And I think hitters started to approach him differently, so he needed to change his own profile
All right, I need to get rolling
So thank you everybody for hanging out, and I'm sorry for what I didn't or couldn't address. We'll do it again next week at the same time, and until then, be well and have great days
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