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Kevin Goldstein FanGraphs Chat - 1/10/2022
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Clu Heywood
1:17
Do you play The Show or is that just too much baseball for you since it’s your day job?
Kevin Goldstein
1:17
I don't. I've watched Paul Sporer play it on Twitch, and it's really kind of amazing looking, but I like to escape with video games, do I don't really do sports games.
Mike
1:19
Does someone like Cohen just repurpose the revenue he receives into the team because he makes so much money elsewhere or is he writing the checks for Scherzer himself?
Kevin Goldstein
1:19
Hah. The Mets are writing the checks, but Cohen certainly has the right to fill that account with as much money as he wants.
Appa Yip Yip
1:20
Did you ever play Base Wars for the NES? With the baseball robots that fight with guns and swords? Realism in sports games is overrated.
Kevin Goldstein
1:20
Wow. YES I DID.
matt
1:20
Is there any chance that COVID reduces the urgency to resolve the lockout since the owners don't necessarily want everyone congregating in Florida and Arizona in March for meaningless games during a pandemic?
Kevin Goldstein
1:21
I've honestly not considered this, but honestly, I don't think the owners have either. Based on what we've seen from other sports, they just want to play and generate revenue.
Sonny
1:21
I'm struggling squaring catcher value with how their WAR is calculated. I know WAR is supposed to give a better baseline, but is added weight given to the fact that a 3 WAR catcher is harder to find than a 3 WAR 3B (you can't move a SS or 2B to C they way you could to 3B). Do FOs weight that position even more than public facing metrics?
Kevin Goldstein
1:21
Yes they do.
RJ
1:22
I know you aren’t a fantasy sports guy but if you had to guess… your average fantasy baseball owner today does analytics on par with a GM from what decade?
Kevin Goldstein
1:22
mid-90s?
Erik
1:23
A lot of people seem to really love Sandy Alcantara, but I'm not quite there given his pedestrian strikeout numbers. Do you think his elite velo will see his K% jump into the high twenties this year or do you think there's enough else there to add up to an ace even with roughly average K rates?
Kevin Goldstein
1:23
Everything was trending up in the second half of 2021 and I'd be pretty optimistic.
1:25
Ok folks, thanks for all the great questions (except for the one QAnon wacko) and for hanging out with me on a quiet Monday. See you next week!
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